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  • LEGO those gender stereotypes

    My daughter, patiently waiting to get her own balloon jetpack.Photo credit: Phil Blake Why can’t you understand that my daughter wants a damn jetpack? Last weekend, I took my daughters to a birthday party that featured a magician/balloon artist.  He was really fantastic with the kids, and kept their attention for close to 1 hour (ONE HOUR!!!).  At the end of his magic show, he began to furiously twist and tie balloon…

    Authored by on August 29, 2012

  • Don’t worry so much about being the right type of science role model

    …dent  Sara Callori wrote  about it and shared that it made her worry about her own efforts to be a good role model. Betz and Sekaquaptewa worked with two groups of middle school girls. With the first group (144 girls, mostly 11 and 12 years old) they first asked the girls for their three favourite school subjects and categorized any who said science or math as STEM-identified (STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering and Math). All of the girls th…

    Authored by on May 30, 2012

  • Biology Explainer: The big 4 building blocks of life–carbohydrates, fats, proteins, and nucleic acids

    …e X Extra: A triglyceride can have up to three different fatty acids attached to it. Canola oil, for example, consists primarily of oleic acid, linoleic acid, and linolenic acid, all of which are unsaturated fatty acids with 18 carbons in their chains. Why do we take in fat anyway? Fat is a necessary nutrient for everything from our nervous systems to our circulatory health. It also, under appropriate conditions, is an excellent way to store up…

    Authored by on June 8, 2012

  • Stereotype threat for girls and STEM

    …ne hardly knows where to start. First, the authors of this paper took abstracts covering research communication and assigned them into categories based on whether they covered “male-type” or “female-type” subjects [Stereotype 1]. The same abstracts were given either male or female authors, randomly [Stereotype 2], and then graded for “scientific quality” by graduate students in communication, either male or female [Stereotype 3]. This means these…

    Authored by on April 10, 2013

  • Fighting the stereotype that math is only for boys

    …and a woman in a male-dominated field, but when will all this shock and awe over women in science fields end? Nonetheless, I love the work I do and the feeling of accomplishment I get when I finish a project. And contrary to 18th century views of the female brain, we have shown that when given the same curriculum as men, we can equally excel. According to a research study done by the University of Washington, the main culprit for girls not becom…

    Authored by on August 22, 2012

  • SCOTUS justices can’t find science on same-sex marriage

    …script here). Unless the ancient Greeks had cell phones and wireless, he’s wrong on that. And based on that reasoning, it would have been just fine for a Supreme Court justice hearing Brown vs. the Board of Education in 1954 to point out that school desegregation was a concept newer even than television. Does that mean anything? Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, presenting the case before the court, offered up another comparison: Well, the…

    Authored by on March 27, 2013

  • After Newtown missteps, journalists get guidelines

    Protip: Don’t diagnose based on speculation. by Jessica Wright                Attention journalists: If you’ve been calling people “nuts” or “deranged” in your stories, the Associated Press is recommending that it’s time you stopped. This guideline — along with the common-sense assertion that writers shouldn’t diagnose individuals with a mental illness based entirely on speculation — is part of a new recommendation added to the AP styleboo…

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  • We gotta watch out for feminine role models wearing pink

    Beware blonde, feminine role models wearing pink.(Source) Today’s guest post comes to us courtesy of Sara Callori. She is a physics Ph.D. candidate at Stony Brook University in Long Island, NY. In the lab, Sara loves working with x-rays and even has a Bragg diffraction tattoo. She would eventually like to focus on science teaching and outreach because she loves to get people to stop being intimidated when they think of physics….

    Authored by on May 18, 2012

  • The Finkbeiner Test

    …ations, including Slate, New Scientist, Smithsonian, Runner’s World and O, the Oprah Magazine. She blogs about science at Last Word On Nothing.] Image credit: Public domain image via Wikimedia Commons. Erratum: Change made at 1:41 ET to correct paragraph number in quote about Rubin from two to four….

    Authored by on March 5, 2013

  • What I’m not going to do

    …lled “jostling and hurling.”  I learned that the motivation for being an astronomer regardless of the battles is that the stars and galaxies are so beautiful and their behavior so intricate and right. I learned all that maybe 10 years ago.  At the time, the fraction of tenured astronomers who were women was 7 percent.  Now it’s 15 percent.  Every institution hiring astronomers has policies, oversights, committees, whatever is necessary to assure…

    Authored by on March 1, 2013

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