With the rapid demise of the #HackAHairDryer campaign, IBM’s ill-fated attempt to… wait, actually we have no idea. Were they convincing women that IT is relevant to their interests? As twitter commentators quickly pointed out, it’s really not that the ladies aren’t interested in STEM, it’s more that STEM doesn’t seem super interested in us.…
Don’t Ask Alice: An Academic Advice Column By Way Of The Ladies’ Home Journal
Back in October of 2014, the AAAS decided to start an advice column for graduate students and early career scholars. This is possibly the worst plan ever enacted, not because the scholar chosen to answer the questions is lacking, but because anyone who has undergone a PhD program recognizes the incredibly dysfunctional nature of the…
Scorpion: We’re Conflicted
While watching the third episode of Scorpion, I realized that I have no idea whether I like this show or not. Last week’s biotech episode was disappointing. Episode 3 brought the Scorpion crew back to more familiar territory, centering the plot on a scheme to the bomb the internet. This turns into a mixed bag…
It’s like the Academy Awards, But Better: The Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize in Physics has been announced. This year the winners are…drum roll, please…Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura for their invention of blue LEDs – light emitting diodes. #456785414 / gettyimages.com Given that last year’s prize was won by the theoretical work done by Peter Higgs and François Englert on the Higgs…
Dear Scorpion: We’re Not Mad, Just Disappointed
Why is this here, you’re asking? What in your bitter lawyer life has led you to read about a tv show that involves an elite hacker team outrunning planes in a Ferrari? First, because we’re rolling out our bitter empire, and tv, bitter and otherwise, will be a big part of our empire once our…
Scorpion: Like ‘The Practice’ for the Tech Industry, But Dumber
Why is this here, you’re asking? What in your bitter lawyer life has led you to read about a tv show that involves an elite hacker team outrunning planes in a Ferrari? First, because we’re rolling out our bitter empire, and tv, bitter and otherwise, will be a big part of our empire once our…
Check Out This Hot New Dinosaur With the Murderously Large Sexy Nose
Meet King Nose…Although he prefers his more formal title Rhinorex condrupus, esq., thanks much. Rhinorex was found in Utah’s Neslen formation – in 1991. Freakin’ scientists, always so painstaking with the cataloguing and whatnot. If they weren’t so busy checking out his fancy skin patterns, we could have known about the giant nose dinosaur 23 years…