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Tell Someone "No", Get Called a "Whore" - #StandingwithDNLee #batsignal...
Reblogged from : If you've come here looking for DNLee's original post, it has been restored to her blog at Scientific American. You should go read it there. Thank you for all the love and support....
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Who’s David, and Who’s Goliath?: Malcolm Gladwell and His Critics
Malcolm Gladwell’s new book David and Goliath is on both the New York Times bestseller list and the Amazon bestseller list – and since I’m number 15 on its waiting list at my local public library,...
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How Gender Affects Perceptions of Team Members’ Expertise: The Case of STEM
It’s no secret that women are underrepresented in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) occupations. There’s several possible reasons for this: not much encouragement for girls or...
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Richard Dawkins Doesn’t Speak For Me
Originally posted on The Contemplative Mammoth:Richard Dawkins is at it again. This isn’t the first time he’s made inappropriate or offensive comments, and this infographic nicely illustrates the...
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Peer Review Gone Wrong, Again
The anonymous peer review process that’s used to determine whether academic research articles are published or presented is supposed to be a neutral process. But research on peer review has revealed...
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The Crooked Path of Research
This is a great explanation of why scientific research projects, and the results of those projects, are not as definitive or as linear as writers like Malcolm Gladwell want us to believe. Scientific...
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My friend Chris Gainor, who is a historian of space exploration and the president of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, has written a thoughtful blog post about the Covid-19 pandemic, and its...
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An unexpected benefit of mask-wearing is being able to say things without being heard. That came in handy a few weeks ago at my local public library, when I uttered “what in the actual f***?” at the...
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