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Notes From A Queer Engineer: Artificial Meat, Post-Truth and Committing to Curiosity
Let’s contemplate gender diversity in Star Trek together. Also: have you considered running for political office?
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Notes From A Queer Engineer Recommends “Lab Girl”
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren is one of the most exquisite pieces of science writing I’ve ever read. As a researcher and professor of geobiology for the past 20 years, Jahren has earned accolades for her work. Here, she shares her passion.
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How To Blow Up A Planet And Other Highly Scientific “Star Wars” Theories
I’ve been reading quite a few fan theories and Poe/Finn pairings recently, but I won’t subject you to that (unless you want to talk in out in the comments, in which case, hello). Instead, I wanted to share with you some top notch nerd speculation on the science of Star Wars.
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Evolution’s Rainbow: Joan RoughGarden Explores Queer Sex in Animals
Evolution’s Rainbow is both a catalogue of diversity across the natural world in sex, gender, and sexuality, and also an “indictment” of all academic fields for suppressing or ignoring the diversity that we see.
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Notes From A Queer Engineer: My Top Five Beautiful Things in Science
At its core, science is a willingness to believe that the universe is knowable. That if we ask the right questions and follow the evidence, we can get to the bottom of how things are, and why.
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Queered Science: Sexism Is For Everybody!
“Discrimination in the sciences is an issue that direly needs more publicity and honest discussion, so I don’t want to discount Eileen Pollack’s well-researched and articulate piece. But in many ways, from a queer-feminist perspective, it was a total disappointment.”
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Notes From A Queer Engineer: GoldieBlox and the Feminist
“I think the root of the problem is that our society immediately writes off anything perceived as feminine or relating to women. While funneling more women into STEM fields may produce marginal gains, it actually leaves the underlying issue — male privilege — largely untouched.”
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Queered Science: NOGLSTP’s Rochelle Diamond Forged A Path For All of Us
If any of you have ever experienced homophobia in the workplace or queer-related adversity in your personal life and moved on (ahem, way too many of us), then you need to know Rochelle Diamond’s life story.
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Queered Science: Eradicating Misogyny in the Scientific Community
Dr. Ben Barres, an openly trans scientist, is on a mission to end gender discrimination in the sciences.
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Talking About Neurosexism Nirvana
Carolyn’s Team Pick: Cordelia Fine has condensed Delusions of Gender into about 45 minutes. Watch this video, expand your cultural science literacy.
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Why The Gay Squid Actually Isn’t
A species of deep-sea squid has been found to have a lot of gay sex. But calling it gay to demonstrate progress destroys actual progress! This is more exciting than is sounds.
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Street Anatomy’s Heart Beats For Art, Medicine and Queered Science
If you like pretty things, queer girls, and science, you need to know about Street Anatomy, a blog about awesome anatomical illustrations.
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Google Tweaks (Out), Sweet Indie Gaming Deal, Horror Architecture
Pay what you can for a set of sweet indie games! Google changed ever-so slightly and now we’re all weeping and won’t leave our basements! And Stephen Hawking’s DIY time travel how-to.
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Geeky Surroundings Weird Women Out & Make Them Dislike Science?
The secret to closing the technology gender gap discovered! And the solution is…interior decoration? Rooms full of Star Trek swag make ladies dislike Computer Science. BUT WHY?!
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Earth-ish Planet Discovered, Carl Sagan Rocks Out on YouTube
Expand your mind this Friday with a little trip to outer space brought to you by Carl Sagan, some astronomers and a few telescopes!