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• Friday Hoydens: Peggy A. Whitson and Pamela A. Melroy

  By lauredhel on 2007-10-26 • ( 5 )

  [Image source: OC Register] This is the first time in history that two female mission commanders have been in orbit simultaneously – and they’ve now met in space. The New York Times reports : A hug today between the commanders… Read More ›

• Busy day yesterday

  By tigtog on 2007-10-26 • ( 5 )

  Lots of things going on, panicking clients and minor domestic urgencies not least of all, but at least I got a walk in Centennial Park and some photos even if I didn’t get any writing done. He didn’t want to… Read More ›

• Scorn as Art

  By tigtog on 2007-10-24 • ( 7 )

  I posted recently about the art of crafting political invective, in finding just the right term to throw at a political adversary to sink them in the public estimation, and how it’s an art that’s largely gone down hill in… Read More ›

• And we think we’ve got healthcare problems?

  By tigtog on 2007-10-24 • ( 3 )

  Read La Lubu’s fabulous post at Feministe on her experiences navigating the healthcare maze in the US.

• So that’s why it’s annoyed me so much

  By tigtog on 2007-10-23 • ( 6 )

  I’m not the only person to be annoyed over the years by the egregious overuse of the term “paradigm shift”. I knew people were misusing the term, but not having actually read Kuhn’s seminal work wherein he coined the term,… Read More ›

• Legal changes to sexual assault trials in NSW?

  By tigtog on 2007-10-23 • ( 42 )

  Peter Kemp, a legal practitioner in NSW, sent me this link, noting that it has significant implications on the right to a fair trial and that there are many points of view to be considered. BARRISTERS will be refused permission… Read More ›

• Pond’s White Beauty.

  By lauredhel on 2007-10-23 • ( 8 )

  More from Unilever, makers of the Dove range and pushers of smoothified, hairless, almost-average-sized, cellulite-free “self-esteem” alongside Slim-fast and Axe/Lynx: Did you know that Pond’s “White Beauty” cream, pushed in India, Korea and Malaysia, is part of Unilever’s “international stable… Read More ›

• Watson is no Galileo

  By tigtog on 2007-10-22 • ( 15 )

  I’ve used this quote before, but it bears repeating. “Alas, to wear the mantle of Galileo it is not enough that you be persecuted by an unkind establishment, you must also be right.” ““ Robert Park James Watson, famous for… Read More ›

• Up close and personal: Weekend Wildlife

  By lauredhel on 2007-10-21 • ( 2 )

  from whooz_queen. encounter exhibition heart

• We’re all very quiet

  By tigtog on 2007-10-21 • ( 7 )

  Is everybody busy madly writing Dumbledore slash now? I’ve already seen the first macros (H/T Shannon).

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