Prof. Barres is transgendered, having completed the treatments that made him fully male 10 years ago…. Being first a female scientist and then a male scientist has given Prof. Barres a unique perspective on the debate over why women are so rare at the highest levels of academic science and math: He has experienced personally […]
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Countries as diverse as Britain, Chile, Liberia and Israel have elected women to their highest political office. When it comes to female representation in national parliaments, the U.S. ranks 68th in the world…. Even the new democracies in Iraq and Afghanistan have a greater percentage of female representatives than does Congress, according to the Inter-Parliamentary
I could complain about living on the top floor of a three flat in 100 degree weather with one little air con unit for one long, thin apartment, but then, looks like everyone else is pretty screwed, too: I’ve been surviving by dousing myself periodically with cold water and lying around a lot. The good
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Why is The Road Warrior playing on The History Channel?? Did someone get confused?
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Getting inspiration… from yourself? Like this, and this and this? It’s funny, too, sort of looking back at all of this. Because the first of the “I’m really tired” posts started way back here. Two months later, I was no longer boxing, the “I’m tired” posts got more frequent, and a year after that, I
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The perks of summer: no bosses in on Friday, nobody shows up until after 9am, and everyone leaves around 4:30. Also, nothing to do but update a datebase for an hour and attend a 30-minute conference call. Anyway, I’m going to go and work on tDW. I have many rewrites to go before I sleep…
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It’s scary, actually. My numbers bumped down Wednesday at noon, gave me a below-200 Thursday, and I bottomed out last night with a too-low number of 55 after taking 2 units too much insulin (I’d planned to eat some fruit and yogurt, but ended up deciding I wasn’t all that hungry, and went to bed).
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How much sex, exactly, makes a woman a slut? And why’s having a lot of sexual partners still considered a “bad thing” for women, but a matter of “gaining useful experience” for men?
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