- A 17-year-old female student has been named as the UK Young Scientist of the Year.
- Sally Ride receives the National Space Grant Distinguished Service Award for 2012.
- Nerds and male privilege: cross assault, sexual harassment and you. (From Merlin.)
- An animated clip from Adam Savage’s TED talk on how simple ideas lead to scientific discoveries.
Hooray, Dr Ride!
It's nice to see only a handful of people in the Dr. Nerdlove article defending the ragging ass, the few that do get resoundingly tromped upon as well they should. I also love the Movie Bob Big Picture episode where he talks about it. I especially like what he said about people claiming it's their 'last bastian against the PC world', and flat out says 'No one, anywhere should -ever- say this shit or have to deal with it. It's not about being 'polticially correct' it's about being a decent human being!'
Yeah exactly. I don't like being PC, but there's a difference between being cleverly non-PC and a sexist dickhead. John Stewart refains from being PC and is clever for doing so, this guy is just toxic.
Saying things like "haha, we should all gang-rape her" or something retarded like that just makes a guy look like an idiot that no one is particularly comfortable to be around.