My department is hosting a panel on “The Future of Genome Sciences” that is free and open to the public. Here are the details: Panel Discussion: The Future of Genome Sciences Monday, May 7th 7:00 pm, Kane Hall EDIT: 120 University of Washington Seattle, WA free, no registration required The speakers will be: Dr. Bruce …
Monthly Archive: April 2012
Apr 29 2012
Christianity is bullshit, and I’m not apologizing for saying that
Religious bigots are furious with Dan Savage yet again. This time their rage is inspired by a speech Dan gave at the National High School Journalism Conference, where he points out the “bullshit” in the Bible and a trickle of Christians get up and walk out of his talk. Watch the video for a wonderful speech …
Apr 27 2012
I’m on a boat
A skeptical boat, that is. This is the cover of The Humanist for their story “Getting Real: A Look at the New Skepticism.” It’s a large article featuring a number of different types of skeptical activism, and I made my way onto the boat because there are a couple of paragraphs about boobquake. …Yeah, all white …
Apr 27 2012
Apparently female musicians are extremely disappointing
At least, that’s the message I got from Buzzfeed this morning when I saw their article “12 Extremely Disappointing Facts about Popular Music.” Not a single female musician exists in the examples of good singers or bands. 8 out of 12 of the “extremely disappointing” musicians are exclusively female or have female lead singers Yes, …
Apr 24 2012
OMG ASTEROID MINING!
That noise you hear is millions of scifi nerds squeeing in unison. The startup Planetary Resources has announced its mission to investigate and mine resources from asteroids in space. While the fact that fricking asteroid mining is theoretically possible is awesome on its own, I really like their big picture view of the project: “This is …
Apr 23 2012
Are you a current or former sex worker?
And are you sick of debates about sex work ignoring what you have to say? Are you sick of people asserting that all sex work is violent and oppressive, and that sex workers are always forced into it? Well, Greta Christina wants to hear from you.
Apr 19 2012
Dear E. O. Wilson: Please retire or stick to ants
Tonight I went to a talk at Seattle Town Hall by E. O. Wilson, one of the most famous evolutionary biologists still alive today. I admit I went for two different reasons. One, Wilson is super famous and also very old, and I wanted a chance to see him speak because another chance might not …
Apr 19 2012
Gender Salary Equity in Higher Education
I’m an active member of Women in Genome Sciences, a group in my department that works to make our field more accepting and welcoming to minorities. Today in belated honor of Equal Pay Day we hosted Dr. Laura Meyers who did research here at the University of Washington on the gender pay gap in higher …
Apr 18 2012
#mencallmethings: r/atheism edition
Ted Cox sent me a friendly email this morning alerting me that I made the front page of reddit. It was a photo of me with my Reason Rally sign, and it was being upvoted in r/atheism. I was actually kind of surprised by the comments. While the photo had garnered a lot of upvotes, …
Apr 16 2012
Sorry for the lack of posts
I just haven’t been feeling it recently. I can’t even muster up the will to create filler posts with geek news or atheist memes or kitten photos. Part of it is work related. My general exam is at the end of May, so I’m spending a lot of time preparing for that. I also just …
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