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• Babies, body fluids and the “bizarre”

  By lauredhel on 2007-09-30 • ( 2 )

  [image from the Daily Mail] Mostly, I just wanted to blog this story because I love this photo. Nadia is on the left. But there is stuff to say, too. Melissa at Shakesville has been blogging about the way in… Read More ›

• Sunday Picblogging: Blech, Bling and Bahaha

  By lauredhel on 2007-09-30 • ( 3 )

  Spotted in a Cotton On Kids store last week by intrepid reporter baroquestar: three children’s T-shirts, aimed at girls from toddler size. The slogans? “My Daddy Loves Beer More Than Me”, “Future Footballer’s Wife” and “Lock Up Your Sons”. [note:… Read More ›

• A-d-a-p-t-e-d.

  By tigtog on 2007-09-30

  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.

• Not safe, not well, not unhurt, NOT SEX

  By lauredhel on 2007-09-29 • ( 18 )

  [emphases are mine] [cut for child rape triggers]

• The preschooler speaks.

  By lauredhel on 2007-09-29 • ( 2 )

  Over dinner, we were talking about the school uniform at the lad’s new school – the one he’ll be transferring to when we move. “It’s blue pants and a golden shirt”, he told Daddy, having observed the kids wearing this… Read More ›

• Mostly Feminist Reader: Commonsense edition

  By lauredhel on 2007-09-28

  NY Times: “In Reversal, Student Is Given Extra Exam Time to Pump Breast Milk”: Sophie Currier, who was refused appropriate accommodations to pump breastmilk for her young daughter while sitting her medical Board exams, has had the ruling overturned on… Read More ›

• Friday Hoydens: xkcd’s EMP Cannon squad

  By tigtog on 2007-09-28 • ( 5 )

  Source: xkcd, of course

• Active management of physicians

  By lauredhel on 2007-09-28 • ( 2 )

  Birth International: “The Active Management of Labour”. This is an informative, readable article on a bit of the history of the Dublin protocol of “Active management of labour” (AML), a set of interventions used by hospitals to increase labour ward… Read More ›

• The second election: who will control the Senate?

  By tigtog on 2007-09-28 • ( 2 )

  Hopping on to my hobby horse again, but there’s been a development this week: there’s actually corporate media coverage of the Senate balance issue. Bob Brown posted a video about the Senate election last week; There are really two elections… Read More ›

• Sinking Feeling

  By tigtog on 2007-09-28

  That was the first sensation I had when I heard about the demonstrations in Burma/Myanmar, because I felt that the junta would be moved to violent repression just like they were in 1988. I was too anxious about the possibility… Read More ›

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