- Mice can learn to sing together in harmony
- Curiosity rover finds rock type that’s never been seen on Mars – Every time I read new Mars info, I hear, “Some ancient astronaut theorists believe…” in my head.
- Who needs DNA to bring back a T-Rex? – We’ll just make our own dinosaur blueprints. Sweet!
- A primer on sexism in the tech industry – With a nice list of definitions of terms to start out with.
- Cute Animal Friday! Elyse’s new love is this orphaned baby walrus. Pitbulls and babies shows the true (super snuggly!) demeanor of pitbulls. And I think we need a dose of the cutest baby animal, red pandas.
we’ll just make our own dinosaurs. with blackjack! and hookers! in fact, forget the dino–no, wait, let’s keep the dinosaurs too.
Not sure what’s sadder, that the tech industry sexism article felt the need to mix computer terms with sexism terms to explain them better or that I cannot convince myself that it wasn’t needed.
Speaking of which, the comments section of that article already has examples on why the problem won’t go away soon enough.
Soooommmewhhhhere ouuuut ttthhhhere we’ve known about the mouse song thing since before Fivel went west.
When I was reading the tech industry sexism article, I had the feeling that it wasn’t going to convince anyone who wasn’t already convinced, so the comments didn’t surprise me. It was kind of a half-hearted rehash of some of the concepts which didn’t address the usual rejoinders to all of them.
For instance, the part about meritocracy and not paying attention to gender ignored the (IMHO) most important point: that what we have is _not_ a meritocracy, and people who think they’re gender-blind are not.
Huh, interesting article with the T-Rex, I bet eventually you could engineer organic machines that perform engineering and computing tasks and the line between biologist and engineer will blur quite a bit.
With these advances and the ability to measure the spin of an individual subatomic particle without destroying it, I have great hopes for the future of computing and engineering.
Now if only we could get the sexism out of them :).
Of course mice can harmonize, hasn’t anyone seen Babe
Well, those sexism and Curiosity articles were certainly interesting. I’m sure that they’ll inspire a great number of well thought out, intelligent comments fro…
OH GOD! OH, SWEET MOTHER OF…WHY?!!? *Gouges eyes out with a blunt pencil*
Urrggh…we need to have some of those things from theme parks for the internet-‘You must be at least this intelligent to have an opinion’.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to go see a doctor about all this blood.