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• Fat Hate Bingo!

  By lauredhel on 2007-06-15 • ( 8 )

  For those who enjoyed Antifeminist Bingo: Via Kate Harding, now co blogging at Shakesville: Fat Hate Bingo from BStu!

• Gigantoraptor: 1400 kg bird-like dinosaur!

  By lauredhel on 2007-06-14 • ( 3 )

  It’s not every day paleontologists discover a new dinosaur! These discoveries take me back to the wonder of imagining the dinosaur world when I was a child. We weren’t saturated with the pre-digested smoothly-animated imagery* of Jurassic Park and Walking… Read More ›

• “Acting childish” – from Feministe

  By lauredhel on 2007-06-12 • ( 20 )

  There’s a long and involved thread on Feministe right now about the much-bandied-about phrase “I hate children!” The guest blogger, Roy, wonders why open hate speech against children is perfectly ok, when it’s not generally acceptable against other group of… Read More ›

• Three, four, five, look at him jive

  By lauredhel on 2007-06-12 • ( 2 )

  The simplest ideas, eh? A chap, Juergen, got to wondering what his cat, Mr Lee, got up to all day. So he rigged up a collar-cam and sent him off. The result? Strangely enthralling shots of a day in the… Read More ›

• Blood on her shoes: hospital safety equipment and embedded sexism

  By lauredhel on 2007-06-09 • ( 10 )

  There were no size 5 gumboots on the surgical unit. I was doing a six-month obstetrics & gynaecology residency. I looked all through the women’s theatre changeroom. I found nothing but single-use elasticated paper shoe covers, and a few pairs… Read More ›

• Salon’s “Milk Money”: media scrutiny of the IBMP-Prolacta partnership

  By lauredhel on 2007-06-09 • ( 1 )

  I had posted this as an update to this post, but I thought it deserved a post of its own. Salon has taken up the story of the murky (until last week) relationship between the Oprah-advertised International Breastmilk Project and… Read More ›

• Back in town. Hi!

  By lauredhel on 2007-06-08 • ( 2 )

  We are back from five days up in Jurien Bay. What did I miss? Heading North for the winter is definitely a Good Thing. We went with two friends and their daughters. The kids got along just fine, and had… Read More ›

• Why buy the cow, when you can buy a cat?

  By lauredhel on 2007-06-03 • ( 2 )

  The lolcats phenomenon spreads ever wider. We’ve seen loltheorists (HAI I HAS PANOPTICON – I C U!) lolpresidents (PREZIDENCY: Yor doin it wrong.) lolbots (EYEZ HAZ A FLAVOR, NOM NOM NOM) loltrek (WHOA THEY BE ALWAYS PREGGERS) and the LOLcky… Read More ›

• Friday Parasites at Zygote Games

  By lauredhel on 2007-06-01

  Y’all who are into things that wriggle and suck should be compulsive readers of Zygote Games, ’cause it’s awesome. They run a Weekly Parasite series that is always worth a look. We’ve been treated to filarial worms, giant roundworms, intracellular… Read More ›

• “Disposed of”: stolen indigenous woman plans her return

  By lauredhel on 2007-06-01 • ( 2 )

  I’ve blogged a couple of times in recent weeks about the Stolen Generations of indigenous children, and about the anniversary of the Bringing Them Home report: Referendum Roundup, and Indigenous Health “Report Card” Australian linguistocide, and antipodeal approaches to aboriginal… Read More ›