Marina Hyde on the Tory conference
I don't always read Marina Hyde, but her piece on the recent Tory conference in Manchester-- "From Boris the Lion King to Theresa May’s P45 – my malarial
Why is scientific sexism so intractably resistant to reform? | Aeon Essays
Science writer Margaret Wertheim writes about sexism in science. One of the many lines that lines struck me: I think about all the young women now being forced
“Articles and ideas are only as good as the fees you can get for talking about them.”
The one problem with writing a book for users, taking a Buddhist-inflected approach to information technologies that emphasizes how people can take back control of their minds, is
Ideas have consequences…
...even when they're published "in a little-read journal," as Ezra Klein points out. He's talking about Elizabeth Warren's 2007 article proposing a Financial Products Safety Commission-- which she