- This month's Scientiae is out! Hear women's voices... in science!
- A conversation with Mr. Mister:
Should I blog about this? It's got some gender in it.
Yeah, it's got a lot of gender. It's kind of awful. - Attention, Southern California! On November 13 you will have the exciting honor of hosting the world's largest-ever earthquake drill, and there is a blog devoted to the preparations. Readers not in Southern California can play along by working on your own emergency kits.
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http://www.eppendorf.com/int/hawkpopup.php?contentid=13
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I am not the above blogger. I thought Consumer Reports used to handle this kind of thing, but couldn't find anything on their website, so I am referring this to you.
Thank you.
Could you elaborate a bit? All I could see was a parody of a boy band music video, so I'm not sure what you are finding offensive. No real innuendo, no intimidation, no power imbalances, just an implication of developing carpal tunnel as a pretext for replacing a few grad students with a machine.
I'm just glad I *finally* got that dernded song outta my head...
All I could see was a parody of a boy band music video, so I'm not sure what you are finding offensive
Tala: Actually, I mostly just found it awful from an artistic perspective. I'd watch it again, but I don't want to be earwormed - maybe Silver Fox or someone else could explain what they saw?