[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
- On the Other Side of the Glass Ceiling, a Glass Cliff – TIME Healthland
- The researchers asked 200 people read the scenarios. When asked to judge the leader who made the not terribly significant mistake, the study volunteers said worse things about the person who was the non-typical gender: the male women's college president and female police chief. They were judged more harshly than people who made the same mistakes, but who were the usual gender for the job.
- How Has WikiLeaks Managed to Keep Its Web Site Up and Running?
- Just how WikiLeaks has been able to continue posting classified material from U.S. and other nations' diplomats and officials–despite numerous cyber attacks against the Web site and the defection of key service providers–is a bit of Internet trickery commonly deployed by legitimate and criminal online organizations alike to protect themselves from traffic spikes and from being shut down…
- Poor Nations: Medieval England Had It Better Than You
- Economics is called the dismal science for a reason – things are never very good to economists.
- New Planet Found; Star’s Fourth World Stumps Astronomers
- A fourth planet found around a sunlike star has its discoverers scratching their heads as to how the oddly spaced system took shape.
- Brain scan of baby during birth
- [Mind Hacks 2.0 - vaughanbell]
- Axes of peeing in public
- [FlowingData - Nathan Yau]
You might think this is a joke, but this is serious business. From Laura Noren, a PhD candidate in sociology, the axes of public peeing:…
- Oldest mine in the Americas found in Chile
- An iron oxide mine date back 12,000 years has been found in Chile, making it the oldest mine yet found in the Americas.
- The Time Of Giving
- [Echidne of the Snakes]
Two organizations have e-mailed me about needing donations:
National Women's Law Center (your donations will be matched by their Board of Directors during December)
Women's e-news
There are many others which need help. Please make your suggestions in the comments.
- “Why don’t you just hit him?”
- [Geek Feminism Blog - Mary]
[This is a stellar feminism 101. -L]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
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