I’ve been looking for the most recent official stats on homebirth and hospital birth mortality in Australia. I can’t find 2007 or 2008 figures, but there are 2006 figures available. Australia’s mothers and babies 2006 The Australian Institute of Health… Read More ›
Month: April 2009
Femmostroppo Reader – April 11, 2009
Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed HiHo, To Work We Go. More Fun Research. April 11, 2009 – Groan – more twisting of language Missing the Point on Teen “Sexting” Cases April 10, 2009 – It’s not… Read More ›
Lazyweb Book request: Disability activism
Lazyweb, do my homework for me! Many of us can rattle off a list of feminist books that influenced our thinking, a list to answer the recurring feminism-101 question about reading lists. I haven’t a clue about radical disability activism… Read More ›
Skeptic quickhit: homeopathy
Reworked (with the artist’s permission) from a poster featured on Orac’s blog.
Ottersealionday Open Thread – Long weekend edition
Happy first-weekend-following-first-full-moon-following-vernal-equinox Celebration!
Do baby sea lions get Eostre Eggs? This little darling was born at Taronga Zoo in Sydney recently and has just this week been able to leave the pup creche and come out into the larger sea lion habitat.
Femmostroppo Reader – April 10, 2009
Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess : The Illegals Steal Our Jorbz!!! April 10, 2009 – Isis smacks down some stupid rhetoric yennenga: Asian Women Carnival #1 April 10, 2009… Read More ›
Quickhit: “The wages of atheism”.
By In A Strange Land: When our daughters chose to opt out of the god-botherers preaching about sky fairies (Miss Ten’s words, not mine) at school, just before Easter, they were sent to pick up litter in the school grounds… Read More ›
A couple of interesting articles: whither Web Design?
These links strike me as topical given the response to the Queensland sex education website: quite a few of us hated the look of the site. But are we looking at it through old media eyes?
Thursday Cheezburger: Sleepy Kittehs, and Delurking Day
Work? I iz on top of it And this runner-up, I relate to: CLEANING: it’s harder than it looks
Femmostroppo Reader – April 9, 2009
Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed I Write Letters April 8, 2009 – Yes – this annoys me no end as well. The Trouble with Coraline April 8, 2009 – SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS – but great post… Read More ›