Quickies: Don’t blame the moon, condoms, and being a feminist ally

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Stop blaming the moon, says UCLA scientist – “Even though a 40-year-old UCLA study demonstrated that the timing of births does not correlate in any way with the lunar cycle, the belief in a lunar effect has persisted. A 2004 study in a nursing journal, for example, suggested that the full moon influenced the number of hospital admissions in a medical unit in Barcelona, Spain.”
Things my male tech colleagues have actually said to me, annotated – Perfectly annotated, at that.
We should have a better condom by now. Here’s why we don’t. – Worth it for the descriptions of how the virus-blocking ability of condoms has been tested, alone.
With great privilege comes great responsibility: Being a good feminist ally – “Perhaps most important is my awareness that every word I write or speak aloud is amplified by a privilege I didn’t ask for and don’t deserve. I am a white heterosexual man, and in my culture that’s an identity that comes with a whole lot of power.”