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• I haven’t lived in Newcastle for 30 years,

  By tigtog on 2010-06-15 • ( 12 )

  yet I’ve heard enough stories over the years about the Johns brothers that nothing crass, selfish, dangerous, destructive or insensitive that either of them could ever do will ever surprise me.

• Femmostroppo Reader – June 14, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-06-15

  Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. What did I miss? Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments.

• Crowdsourcing: ideas for an anti-filter website

  By tigtog on 2010-06-14 • ( 8 )

  I love the new Filter Stephen Conroy site, and I’m keen to put up a similar site aimed at people who very much want their own family’s internet access to be filtered and who have bought into the idea that Conroy’s filter is going to be the easiest way to do it (and that it will work).

• Endangered Sunday: Lions and tigers and bears in Montana

  By tigtog on 2010-06-13 • ( 1 )

  Jonathan Griffiths’ photos taken in a wildlife breeding preserve in remote Montana are stunning.

• Femmostroppo Reader – June 12, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-06-12 • ( 9 )

  Government Overreach Edition – what the hell is the Rudd government up to? Read’em and weep.

• Gratuitous southern vampires (with bonus bad photoshopping!)

  By tigtog on 2010-06-11 • ( 28 )

  HBO have released some new character poster-shots, since Season 3 starts in the US on Sunday night.

• Femmostroppo Reader – June 10, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-06-10 • ( 2 )

  Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. What did I miss? Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments. Maureen Dowd…gets it right? – “If I believed, as our culture seems to, that men are… Read More ›

• Sex Bias in BioMedicine

  By tigtog on 2010-06-10

  Women remain vastly underrepresented in biomedical research despite significant differences in the way they experience many diseases, medications and therapies compared to men. Despite federal mandates to include women in studies, there is much that still needs to be done, says Teresa Woodruff, a leading women’s health scientist at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, in a June 9 commentary in the journal Nature.

• Quickhit: new discoveries on the genetics of autism

  By tigtog on 2010-06-10

  The search for the genetic underpinnings of autism spectrum disorder has just yielded a new set of clues. In the largest study to date, the Autism Genome Project consortium reports that people with autism have more copy number variants – segments of DNA that have been either duplicated or deleted – in their genes.

• Vale Jacob F. Baldwin 1951-2010

  By tigtog on 2010-06-09

  One of Australia’s pioneering disability activists has died in the early hours of this morning after an extended illness.