February 2012
Yes.
someone on my dash just referred to chicago as a “fun, cute, quaint, little city,” which is 80% wrong in my book (“city” is appropriate, i’ll give you that).
acceptable alternatives for referring to chicago:
- the queen of the west
- city of broad shoulders
- hog butcher for the world
- stormy/husky/brawling
- the miami of canada (NOTE: this is a mr. burns reference)
Ugh line out the door at Bagelworks.
Fruit Fly Gene Names →
tinman.nikunnakki.info
Who says scientists don’t have a sense of humor?
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The Tragic, Craven Undoing of Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s Noble Mission →
colorlines.com
At the center of this debacle are, of course, the poor, often rural women who rely on the free or low-cost clinical breast exams, referrals and followup provided by Planned Parenthood.
and
…[it is supremely disappointing] that Komen would risk even the appearance of pandering to Republicans who refuse to meaningfully fund healthcare and therefore make Planned Parenthood so necessary.
January 2012
Bake ginger cookies for lab.
Whole lab loves you.
In Memory of Common Sense →
uptownmagazine.com
Rape isn’t what happens when a man gets a little hot in the pants after seeing some cleavage. Rape isn’t a response to the sight of a woman’s bare shoulders in a tube top on a warm day. Rape isn’t a risk a woman should run if she flirts with someone at a bar and dares to go home alone rather than with him. Rape is not sex. It’s a crime founded on power, violence and control, and a man who will rape a woman will rape regardless of what she does, where she is, or what she has on. Women in hijab and burqas get raped, too. That is common sense.
Read the relevant VSB post here. As one might imagine, it and the subsequent apologetic edits are utter bullshit.
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I usually don't post about the weather, but...
…it is damn near SIXTY degrees in New York on this day, the twenty-seventh day of January, in the year two thousand twelve of the Common Era.
I am not complaining.
Not at all.
Dear everyone, everywhere
Why would you not chew with your mouth closed? I mean, aren’t you afraid of your food falling out of your mouth? Aren’t you bothered by being a terrible disgusting eater?
-Devon
Meetings
Today, I have a meeting with my PI so that I can give her a crash course on stem cell biology because in a meeting earlier this week, I opened my big mouth and told her that I had just taken a stem cell course given by the two premiere stem cell biologists at Rockefeller (with whom I’ll/we’ll probably be doing a collaborative project if I join this lab).
I’ve forgotten way more than I retained. Time to read some review articles.
“Okay, yes, there is a homosexual agenda, okay? There’s just two things on it: 1. Don’t get killed; 2. A decent brunch. That’s it.”
—Elvira Kurt (via fuckyeahfemmes)
Spell your full name without an E,F,R,S,K,I,M,L,C,A,Y,N
b hdz.
(via billie-joe)
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new signature.
Get Over It: Men and Women Are from the Same Planet →
blogs.scientificamerican.com
Agustín Fuentes shreds a recent paper from PLoS ONE that claims a litany of “sex differences” in trying to define “masculinity-femininity” at the SciAm guest blog:
“Sex” and “Gender” are not the same thing. Sex is a biological state that is measure via chromosomal content and a variety of physiological and developmental measures. Gender is the roles, expectations and perceptions that a given society has for the sexes. Most societies have two genders on a masculinity-femininity continuum, some have more. The two are interconnected, but not the same thing. We are born with a sex, but acquire gender and there is great inter-individual diversity within societies and sexes in regards to how sex and gender play out in behavior and personality.
Check out the post for more. Plenty of mention on where the body of literature stands on the development of gender vs. sex.
I have been spending too. much. money.
And I have too many expensive things coming up to keep this shit unchecked.
Making myself accountable. Right here. Right now.
Here’s to reducing spending, stretching budgets, and buying wisely.
Sufjan Stevens - All Delighted People
Sufjan Stevens | All Delighted People
I tried my best, I tried in vain
Do you love me a lot
Do you love from the top of your heart
