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Science
Quickhit: “Womanspace”
After years of apparently expecting his professor wife to work second shift, and suddenly finding that domestic work is not as easy as he thought: Cretaceous manchild virologist cracks “men hunt, women gather” shopping joke as if it’s novel and hilarious…
Boo to the New Google Reader
I’m sure that there will be a work-around, but for now I am not a happy bunny. If you know of a nice shiny way to replicate the share with note function of the old Google Reader, please let me know.
Happy 50th anniversary to The Dish
The CSIRO Parkes Radio Telescope even got its own Google Doodle:
DEAR STEELY DAN
PLEASE GET YOUR SOUND ENGINEER TO TURN THE MAIN FADERS DOWN.
Quicklink: What and How we Measure
When does quantifying something help us learn — and when does it mislead us?
Quickhit: Malaria vaccine now a reality
Tests show GSK’s malaria vaccine just might work!
Copyright hell: larrakins and astrologers
Warner’s copyright troll acquisition Larrakin Music won the right to “Land Down Under” royalties in the High Court, and Astrolabe Inc shut down the widely used zoneinfo timezone database. Not the public interest’s best day in copyright-land.
Ada Lovelace Day blasts from the past: the science and technology Hoydens
I always enjoy spending Ada Lovelace Day reading about amazing women. Luckily there’s advance reading in the Friday Hoyden archives. I thought others might enjoy a round-up of Friday Hoydens past in science and technology too.
Friday Hoyden: Mahananda Dasgupta, nuclear fusion researcher
Mahananda Dasgupta is a professor in the Department of Nuclear Physics at the Australian National University. Dasgupta’s research takes place at the heavy-ion accelerator facility and investigates quantum tunnelling when heavy nuclei collide. Her Pawsey Medal award in 2006 cites cutting-edge contributions includ[ing] precision measurements of unprecedented accuracy.
Hoyden About Town 