A while back and elsewhere, there was a conversation about this magazine cover. Part of the backlash – among breastfeeding mothers of all people! – was around “explanations”. “I don’t want to come across that magazine cover in the supermarket… Read More ›
education
formal, eclectic, iconoclastic, autodidactic – all the ways we learn
Schools, competition, drive for perfection and anorexia
School culture may promote anorexia The study shows that schools play a critical role in the development of girls’ self image, confidence and self-esteem, with many of the girls citing particular high school experiences as defining moments in their anorexia…. Read More ›
A-d-a-p-t-e-d.
MEMO To: All writers/editors/narrators of nature programs From: Science Fangs/claws/cool-animal-feature-of-the-day etc. are not “designed”. Or “engineered”. They are adaptations. Pillocks.
Yup, peanut butter convinces me!
This argument is so bizarre it’s not even wrong: it’s wrong’s cousin who’s never been the same since that nasty accident with the Klein bottle.
Youtubular: Puking on air, and performing babies
Some Youtube ponderings. (With a tip of the hat to Neatorama.) Puking on TV Here is a clip from a Swedish game show. The host suddenly vomits in a middle of a sentence, then jumps back up with a smile… Read More ›
“Let us remember that we are not our own.”
And now, the last of the “Dress and Its Relation to Health” chapter from the Ladies’ Handbook of Home Treatment, 1905. The previous parts of this chapter are here, here, and here. In which we consider women’s pro-corset angst and… Read More ›
More “chemtrails” conspiracy theory
Remember my post from last week about CT Busters? I have sadly discovered that there are way too many videos on YouTube showing their “evidence” that jets are spraying poison chemicals all over our skies. Of course, these people would… Read More ›
“Any woman scientist they draw looks severe and not very happy”
Top 5 Myths About Girls, Math and Science Myth 1: From the time they start school, most girls are less interested in science than boys are. Myth 2: Classroom interventions that work to increase girls’ interest in STEM run the… Read More ›
Rising damp of the womb: more Ladies’ Handbook
Further to “Fish-wives, savages and the curse of Eve”, and “So in studying the human figure we must have a standard of grace and beauty with which to compare the abnormal figure.” I bring you part 3 of “Dress and… Read More ›
“So in studying the human figure we must have a standard of grace and beauty with which to compare the abnormal figure.”
Further to “Fish-wives, savages and the curse of Eve”, here comes part 2 of “Dress and its Relation to Health”, from the Ladies’ Handbook of Home Treatment, Melbourne, 1905. ~~~ What can it be then that causes us to fall… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 