Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Oh, Science, you rascal! I look away for one second, and there you are, dropping weirdly gendered knowledge on the populace like it’s your business. (SCIENCE ALERT OF THE FUTURE: Dropping Weirdly Gendered Knowledge on the Populace Its Business.) Today’s Science Alert concerns eating, and why it is very bad. Here are the actual findings, […]
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Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Happy Historic Event of the Inauguration of Barack Obama Day! I hope you enjoyed it! I certainly have. Yet, while we do things like “hope” and “cry” and “pat ourselves on the back for ending racism in America because we are FOX News correspondents and therefore terrible and wrong all the time,” Science labors on! […]
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Tuesday, January 20, 2009
“We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things. The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history; to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea, passed on from generation to generation: the God-given promise that all are […]
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Hey! Who wants to hear some good news? Like, for example, Obama officially becomes President tomorrow, and it’s going to be really super inspirational, and when I was at the airport today they were playing one of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s speeches on a TV, and this man of color, I think he was in […]
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Saturday, January 17, 2009
There is something truly ominous about women who make their livings talking to other women about domesticity. Rachel, Oprah, Julia, Martha: there are others, of course, but these are the ones that everyone knows. Somewhere inside everybody’s head, there is a kitchen, and a nice lady who lives there, and she tells you what to […]
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Thursday, January 15, 2009
[So, she sent this to me with a note that was like, “I know I am not to e-mail him any more but admit it THIS IS GOOD,” and I was like, “no! You should not e-mail it to him! You should e-mail it to the world! For it is vulnerable and true and funny […]
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Thursday, January 15, 2009
Like this charming lede in the New York Times, which does not at all trivialize date rape: In the new issue of Nature, the neuroscientist Larry Young offers a grand unified theory of love. After analyzing the brain chemistry of mammalian pair bonding — and, not incidentally, explaining humans’ peculiar erotic fascination with breasts — […]
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Lest we forget, amid the various personal anecdotes and YouTube clips that are spreading like pinkeye, this is, and will always be, a BLOG ABOUT GENDER. The sexes, they are at war! Yet, as said war wages on, turning bro against bro(ad), too rarely do we stop to reflect: who’s winning? Yeah, yeah, patriarchy hurts […]
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009
DOUCHE MOVE #1: People like this, so I don’t any more! If you aspire to be cool and relevant, you really have to control the products you incorporate into your daily life, because you are of course defined by your tastes in media and/or clothing, and liking something that is popular puts you on the […]
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