women and science

Ask Podblack – Could Sex Sell Science?

by podblack on July 7, 2009

Feel free to ask your own questions – head to Podblackblog on Twitter and ‘tweet’ your question! Topics like superstition, belief in the paranormal, pseudoscience and conspiracy theories and gender differences are particularly fun to tackle. The question I got via Sonja on Twitter was – “How true is the comment ‘the days of this [...]

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Let’s Do The Title IX Time Warp!

by podblack on September 22, 2008

I’ll be popping up a blog about how wonderful it was to meet the Western Australian Humanists later today(hello!) – but I was intrigued by the following article popping up, by Christina Hoff Sommers -’Foolishly Seeking Gender Equity in Math and Science’. And I got deja vu. Weird… and here I am, a skeptical-kind of [...]

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Come Fly With Me – Carnival Joy!

by podblack on August 5, 2008

Yes, I’m typing this from an airport net kiosk, surrounded by sproglings who are giggling about discovering ‘Design your own can‘ at pepsi.com or some such technical fun on the other terminal. Oh, the days when making inappropriate advertising suggestions served as a distraction during a two and a half hour transit… However I have [...]

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