Charles Darwin was born 202 years ago today, and the International Darwin Day Foundation uses February 12th each year to celebrate Darwin, Science and Humanity. In November it will be 152 years since the publication of his paradigm-shattering work, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.
Year: 2011
Otterday! And Open Thread.
Today’s otter, a North American river otter snapped in Yellowstone National Park, is brought to you via yathin on flickr.
Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires.
Friday Hoyden: Dr Ivy Williams, first woman called to the English Bar
“She now set her heart on being called to the bar (not, it seems, for her own sake but to offer free legal advice to the poor).”
Looking for an expert female speaker for your Australian event?
After nearly a year in concept, the No Chicks No Excuses website listing women speakers covering a wide variety of expertise has been launched, so that organisers no longer find it so terribly difficult to find women who know how to speak at a large event.
Femmostroppo Reader February 10, 2011
Items of interest come across recently in my feed-reader. What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments.
Thursday Cheezburger – Luv
Today’s theme is: Luv It’s make Hallmark a fortune Valentine’s Day soon.
Post your own favourite in-theme Cheez here, and wait for admin image magic to make it appear.
Abbott-Watch: macho moments more important than basic consideration
Paraphrasing a comment I just made at LP: The “shit happens” comment is revealing despite being a media “gotcha” beatup, and what it reveals isn’t pretty.
Working Mum it’s all your fault too.
Just when you thought it was Ladies of Leisure being at fault now it’s working mothers making their children fat.
A new definition of functional
This messy patchwork of care arrangements – its favours and returned favours; its sick children one week and different working hour requirements the next – are how the modern working parent operates these days.
How many ways can you get it wrong?
Two main “facts” in the headline. Two main “facts” completely and utterly wrong.
Hoyden About Town 