Quickies
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Late Monday Quickies and Very Late CAF
Hey, all! I’d like to expand on my previous post with helpful COVID-19 links. Also, I owe you a Cute Animal Friday! These links came in from Mad Art Lab‘s Seelix: A coronavirus explainer for kids, from NPR. Also helpful is the Science News for Students coronavirus Q & A. Although this is Cincinnati specific, here is some great advice…
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Friday Quickies: COVID-19 Edition
Hey, all! I feel like I’ve spent the last week in some kind of Twilight Zone here in the US with regards to all of the coronavirus news. Luckily, I have some friends with biology expertise who can help me navigate the ins-and-outs in a field where I do not have expertise. So, for today’s Quickies, I’d like to share…
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Quickies: Grad student labor rights, the end of SETI@home, and more…
Happy Friday! It’s spring break for me, and I’ve spent a good deal of it recovering from the FIRST half of the spring semester and generally agonizing over the presidential primaries. Well, it’s time to move on and get things done, whether it be to finish grading or to just let my brain figure out what it wants to freak…
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Quickies: Coronavirus precautions, hip hop at NASA, Peep science…
It’s Friday, and I have science on the brain this week… I highly recommend this informational look at the coronavirus outbreak and the worldwide response from The Atlantic. Meanwhile, experts tell us not to panic, but to take common sense precautions, with the bonus that many of these practices will help stave off the cold and flu as well. I…
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Quickies: RIP Katherine Johnson
Katherine Johnson, NASA mathematician, dies at 101 – Her NYT obituary opens with, “They asked Katherine Johnson for the moon, and she gave it to them.” Harvey Weinstein couldn’t reverse Me Too – “Before Me Too, the messiness of the facts in this case ordinarily would never see the inside of a courtroom; after all, prosecutors generally don’t bring cases…
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Quickies: School Choice = Segregation, Greyhound vs. ICE, and Constitutional Punishment for Voter Suppression
School Vouchers Are Just Code for ‘Segregation Forever’, the Daily Beast: “Their advocates claim that vouchers and “school choice” constitute a civil right, a social justice issue. In fact, the call for “school choice” today echoes the language of Southern segregationists who called for “freedom of choice” to evade school desegregation. And today’s advocates employ many of the same arguments…
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Quickies: Liz comes out swinging, and non-binary spec fic creators you should know
Elizabeth Warren eviscerates Bloomberg on his record of non-disclosure agreements pertaining to sexual harassment and gender discrimination. And here I though Bloomberg being on stage was a bad thing! It gave Liz a chance to shine. But she didn’t stop with him! Check out SyFy’s 13 non-binary writers and comic creators changing sci-fi and fantasy. The work of Mad Art…
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Quickies: Trolling Ted Cruz, Black Punk Bands, Back to the Future Deepfake
Ted Cruz Positively Outraged That The Government Would Interfere With His Reproductive Rights, Wonkette: In the time-honored tradition of trolling forced-birth conservatives by introducing legislation to control men’s reproductive rights, Alabama state rep. Rolanda Hollis has introduced a bill requiring men to undergo a vasectomy at age 50 or after fathering a third child, and Ted Cruz is pretending he’s…
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