Submitted by Edward Gonzalez-Tennant on Nov 13, 2009, 08:04 AM

This post is reproduced from my personal blog, which you can view here.

Submitted by Amanda Phillips on Nov 04, 2009, 03:18 PM

The video is set up as a PSA interrupting in-game play, in which Phillies pitcher Cole Hamels steps out of a Hummer to talk to something close to his heart: random grenades. Getting tagged by a sticky grenade from out of nowhere is undoubtedly frustrating for FPS gamers, and Hamel urges players to avoid using this type of attack because, he assures them, random grenades are "for pussies." Later, we find that he is speaking on behalf of the Fight Against Grenade Spam.

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Sep 02, 2009, 09:45 AM

The form of a Wikipedia contribution is quite exacting . . . but what counts as "exacting" is culturally determined. This is the beginning not the end of a discussion of gender and knowledge. I'd love to hear what others think about this study of Wikipedia contribution and use as well as about the larger issues.

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Nov 16, 2008, 09:19 AM
I read with sadness this NY Times story, "What Has Driven Women Out of Computer Science?" The number of females going into computer science has actually decreased, not increased, over the last generation in the U.S. (This is not true elsewhere, btw. Don't, please don't, drag out some hokey, fake genetic explanation here.) Why? everyone is asking. Good question. When I was a kid, I won a scholarship to math camp. The days were challenging and exhilirating but the nights were terrible. When we all went to our tents, I was the only girl in the girl's tent. Later, when it came time to choose between majors, and decide what graduate school to go to, I was torn between my first love, what was then called quantificational logic, and literature. Had I chosen the former, I would have ended up in AI, I suspect. I looked through a lot of catalogues, then decided I didn't want to spend an entire life as the only girl in the tent. Why do so few women today go into computer science? Here's the article: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/business/16digi.html?emc=eta1

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Dec 28, 2007, 09:43 AM

Below, is a reblog of an article from the Washington Post about teaching U.S. elementary school teachers how to teach math. One sad part about not having humanists and interpretive social scientists more involved in these kinds of discussions is that we can see the place where A and B and C s

Submitted by Mechelle on Oct 18, 2007, 04:14 PM
Rosalind Franklin & Wyllie O Hagan, DNA Discoveries in Science and Art

Submitted by Mechelle on Oct 12, 2007, 03:45 PM
Microkids