It’s not Cute Animal Friday yet, and this doesn’t count as history, but if you haven’t seen this adorable red panda cub freaking out, it’ll make your morning a little better.One more piece of awesome news: our own Debbie Goddard was recently named CFI’s Director of Outreach! Huge congrats to her!
- Killer Karaoke Combines Singing and Danger, Is the Only Show You Should Watch With Your Grandmother This Thanksgiving – I’m a junk television connoisseur, so this is definitely going on my DVR list.
- Hobby Lobby Obamacare Lawsuit: Judge Rules Store Must Cover Morning After Pill – Also, just because you say a pill causes abortion does not mean that it does. You do not get to discriminate based on your made-up reality. From Maria.
- “Heroes of Science” action figures are light on “action,” heavy on the “heroes” – What do you think of this? From Scribe999.
- The Man Who Charged Himself With Murder
- Why Do British Singers Sound American? – I always wondered about this! But now I wonder no more.
- The British exorcists: How people are paying thousands of pounds to quack ‘healers’ because it’s more acceptable to be possessed than to have a mental illness – Even though it’s from the Daily Mail, the article does bring up an interesting point. From Daniela.
Does the Schrodinger figure come with a cat?
Nicole Introvert,
Good Question, I don’t think it does, but it should. :)
Maybe it does… maybe it doesn’t. You’ll have to buy a copy to know for certain.
Yes and no.
Narvi,
LOL! :0
Darn that didn’t work I wanted to make a laughing emoticon.
I would totally buy a bunch of those action figures but what a let down that there is no Kepler or Hypatia.
Yes, the Rolling Stones and others might have/do affect a less “English”/”American” way of singing, but not only is that not universal (the Kinks immediately come to mind, or I mean, “Penny Lane”? come on.), it goes both ways, for example, The Killers. The only band I can think of that always sounds really, really American accented (off the top of my head) is R.E.M.
Ugh, my first thought when seeing the “heroes” of science was, where’s the women? My second thought was where’s the people of color?
I did go to the artist’s deviantart page and read his explanation, which honestly didn’t explain a whole lot. His reason for lack of women? He had models for men in suits, so it was easier to do men (not the first time I’ve heard that excuse), and after he did Curie, he wasn’t “confident” enough to do another woman. No explanation for the lack of people of color.
Also, he claims that only scientists who were alive in the 20th century were considered. If that’s true, then a lot more women and people of color should be on the list because they were actually “allowed” to do science. But of course, it’s also a list of “recognizable” scientists (but I don’t recognize them all) so, we can’t put unknowns on, because no one recognizes them. So if they never get put on these lists, they’ll never get recognizable, so when people put together more recognizable people lists, these people don’t get put on. It’s a vicious cycle.
I think Sally Ride was pretty recognizable. And George Washington Carver. Diane Fossey. Jane Goodall. Stephen Chu (maybe not AS famous, but he did win a Nobel Prize and was the U.S. Secretary of Energy). It’s good to keep pointing this stuff out in his comments…maybe he’ll learn something.
re: Heroes of Science action figures – Marie Curie must be getting tired of being the token woman.
Because someone else will post it if I don’t:
She is.
Yeah.
You’d think he could have actually made use of some other people’s research, such as the Dignifying Science book, with several background story bits about women in science, including Marie Curie, Rosalind Franklin, Hedy Lamarr…
In the Trevell Coleman story, both the author and most commenters get the point precisely backward.
Coleman, and his victim were both brought to their crossroads by their drug use. Coleman did not use because of his crime, he threw away his education, his family, his children and his avocation in music because drugs were more important to him. Even when he ‘knew better’ he kept using.
This is what addiction is about. Addicts and drunks do crazy things because they are crazy. I used to be just about that crazy myself. No lurid crimes etc. but if a sane person had ONE of my hangovers, they would never drink again.
Under the circumstances, prison may have been his best move. From the sound of things, his victim’s step-brother won’t be so fortunate.
The “Hereos of Science” was pretty cool.
I do agree that more women should’ve been included.
I wonderd “Where’s Carolyn Porco?”
Perhaps there should be multiple series (i.e, Scienc Heroes Series 1, Science Hereos Series 2, ect), so that new figures can be added. And also have input given for consideration of who to include.
The declaration for “Killer Karaoke” being the only show we should watch with our grandmothers is funny, given that my grandmother watches shows like “Law and Order: SVU” and “NCIS” (which I no longer watch, thanks to PauleyP).