The Hand Mirror

Sometimes being a woman in a male dominated field feels a bit like trying to teach from water-skis. No, water-skis are not the best platfo...

Gender differences are science, dammit, when will you silly social constructionists get over yourselves and admit girls just like looking a...

Cross Posted from my usual home-base . The annual awards evening celebrating top NewZealand researchers was held at Auckland Museum on We...

Last night I went to see Gasland , a documentary about Josh Fox wandering around the United States and talking to people with fracking rig...

there was an article included in fairfax papers over the weekend called "why parents should just learn to relax". unfortunately i...

Found via a friend's Facebook feed, from XKCD

thanx to stef for alerting us to the marie curie lecture series . from the blurb on their website: Female Chemists from New Zealand refle...

Cross posted Which may account for what Prof. Barres calls the main difference he has noticed since changing sex. "People who do not kn...

Cross posted Careful - this may be TRIGGERING, and the links may be TRIGGERING. Dr Dix P. Poppas of Cornell University Medical School has be...

The Stanford University magazine has a really fascinating article about Dr Clelia Duel Mosher, a woman who taught in the Hygiene Department ...

Several people have drawn my attention to this stunner in various media today, here's a snippet from Stuff : A senior Iranian cleric say...

Been on a bit of a break. Not away, just consumed by books (Robin Hobb again), stupid iPod games, spending time with family and sleeping. B...

there are so many things that have been happening in the last year and a half that make me angry, too many to count. cuts to things that ma...

From Stuff today, big thanks to Tessa for this one: Nerds take heart. Scientists have shown for the first time that being smart is sexy, an...

God bless the American Civil Liberties Union: they're launching a lawsuit challenging the patent on BRCA1 and BRCA2 , two genes which, i...

The second ever Diversity in Science carnival is up, at Thus Spake Zuska, celebrating women in science. I especially liked this post, Wome...