[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
- Gawker’s disaster, Yahoo’s fecklessness
- [Making Light - Patrick]
As you may or may not be aware, Gawker Media's network was seriously compromised over the weekend, and hundreds of thousands of login/password pairs have been posted in public. The overwhelming majority of these belong to people who registered on a Gawker-owned site in order to post comments; these sites include Lifehacker, Gizmodo, Gawker, Jezebel, io9, Jalopnik, Kotaku, Deadspin, and Fleshbot. Gawker's official statement is here.
You can find out if you're affected here. The instructions look a little initimidating, but just do it; it's easier than it sounds.
- Only 6 Percent of Scientists Are Republican. Is This a Problem?
- [GOOD - Andrew Price]
In fact, psychologists have actually been very eager to explore the relationship between political orientation and various personality traits and a lot of that work is relevant to the present discussion. I'm surprised Sarewitz doesn't mention it. This longish piece from Psychology Today provides a pretty good survey of what psychologists have found. Here's the summary:…
Are we still surprised that there aren't tons of Republican scientists? Liberals tend to be more intellectually curious, comfortable with ambiguity, and attracted to novelty. Those are traits that are critical for scientific investigation…
This doesn't mean liberals are necessarily better or smarter. The typically conservative traits of orderliness, loyalty, and rule-following are positive, too…
We shouldn't expect that half of our scientists be Republicans any more than we expect half of all NRA members be Democrats.
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