“For papers that bomb, there was no difference; women and men ended up on papers
with zero citations at equal rates. But for a reasonably successful paper (one
that gets cited 25 times), women are about 20 percent less likely than men to
end up on the author list.”
posted 9/27/2022 8:00pm ∞
“To love a book is to constantly interrogate it. … Every time you pick up a book
and it is set in another world, written long before some social changes have
been made, you have to ask yourself whether or not it is problematic that the
orcs are a certain color, or why the villain is disabled.”
posted 3/28/2021 8:22pm ∞
“George W. Bush didn’t originally want to create the Department of Homeland
Security; he was persuaded into doing so by Democrats, who were themselves
mostly grasping for an opportunity to score political points. Almost no one
pushed for a new department because they thought it was a good idea.”
Amanda Chicago Lewis ,
The 20-Year Boondoggle
(The Verge ,
November 16, 2022 )
posted 11/29/2022 8:00pm ∞
“The spiders searched the part of the web where the cricket had been—the sheet
or the lines—which indicated a memory of prey location. And when Sergi stole
prey from the gumfooted lines, the spiders made more searches for prey that was
especially large relative to themselves.”
posted 11/27/2022 8:00pm ∞
“[T]he earliest image indicates that it was roughly 100,000 Kelvin, which
suggests we were looking at it just six hours after it exploded. The latest
lensed image shows that the debris had already cooled to 10,000 K over the
eight days between the two different images.”
posted 11/24/2022 8:00pm ∞