It’s finally sunk in, apparently, that the long-claimed link between having an abortion and breast cancer simply doesn’t stand up to rigorous scrutiny. Forced-birthers are backing away from the claim that there is a direct link BUT don’t cheer too… Read More ›
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The milieu through which we swim
It was a party night, it was the end of school
I was thinking about the historical detail in Mad Men and Swingtown, and tripping down memory lane myself. Thinking about the props one might procure if making a period drama about my childhood and adolescence. Twinpoles. Paper one-dollar notes. Vinyl… Read More ›
Quick Hit: The Big Picture – Electron Microscopy
Boston.com’s The Big Picture has a piece with a variety of scanning electron micrographs today. It’s made of weevils, nanomachines, and awesome. Check it out.
Virtual travelling: Xmas coming earlier every year
Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas from Maureen F. (Toronto, Canada) Anyone seeing decorations round your neighborhood yet? They arrived in our supermarket & shopping mall a few weeks ago (before Halloween!, as is typically maddening, but I… Read More ›
Monday Gardening: The Vegetable Patch
I wandered out into the garden this afternoon, camera in hand. You can see the previous garden post from just two months ago here, with the seedlings all in. We’ve been feasting off snow peas and sugar snap peas for… Read More ›
Sydney Hoydenizens: Anyone up for Yuletide Drinks?
Beppie is a regular commenter at Hoyden About Town who is currently organising drinkies instead of writing her thesis. In the interests of good conversation, celebrating the approaching Summer Solstice, and getting squiffy, I’ll be organising a Yuletide Drinks… Read More ›
Quick link: Hitting girls, forcing sex ‘not a big deal’: boys survey.
by Mindy, For Battler, and feminist. The ABC news website has details of a new survey up showing that there is still a lot of work to be done to educate boys about girls. A new report has found that… Read More ›
Peeve Time: “The Obese” as Walking Dead
[cross-posted at Shapely Prose.] People with disabilities have for quite a while been promoting “people-first” language to reinforce the simple, yet radical, notion that people with disabilities are people first, PWD second. “Diabetics” are people with diabetes; “disabled people” are… Read More ›
“Gamers’ girls be warned”, says WA Today
Yet again, women who play videogames are rare, perhaps mythical, beings. WA Today has issued an ominous warning to “Warcraft widows”: Widows of Warcraft, be warned – you may not see much of your boyfriend/partner/husband/defacto/intended in the next six months… Read More ›
“Firewalls Under Fire”: Mark Newton talks internet censorship on Today show
Karl Stefanovic interviewed internet service provision expert and outspoken censorship critic Mark Newton on yesterday’s Today Show. Click on the eye image to see video. ~~~ Transcript: Karl Stefanovic: [Australia?]’s plan for a new internet filter has been widely criticised… Read More ›
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