ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

T his was created after Obama's comments about the looks of Kamala Harris. It's one of those "hottest this or that" list...

Media Matters has done another study about the numbers of Republican, Democratic and neutral people on those shows.  Republicans are, in ge...

Contents Warning:  Rape and Intellectual Games Steven Landsburg is an economics professor at the University of Rochester and a former Slat...

This article on girls who wrestle is thought-provoking. The use of a child bride as a form of debt payment in Afghanistan.  A harrowing...

The awful murders of Texas prosecutors and the wife of one of them: On Tuesday, the Kaufman County district attorney’s office reopened ...

The National Conspiracy Poll is out.  You can read the whole thing here (pdf) and a shorter summary of some results here. It may be fun t...

This post was going to be about an Australian article with that headline , about a gruesome killing.  But being the careful goddess I am, I...

I'm itching to give you all sorts of April Fool examples from research popularizations when it comes to studies on women or ge...

Don't forget to put that in my obituary, should I ever evaporate.  Don't mention that I don't iron. All this is because of a ...

Interesting news about the Ringwraith realm (with governor Scott Walker) of Wisconsin.  He ran on the topic of job creation but achieved a...

I've been thinking of the message of that very old song recently.  The way people in various social justice movements or on blogs...

This piece talks about influence and how it might be purchased with money.  In this case the influence is ideological and attempts to chang...

This is the post I wasn't going to publish but... The Supremes have been discussing the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).  Many obse...

It veers on sexee acrobatics at points but these two are really very good.

This is a neat video about two female research students and their project:  To create an invisible bicycle helmet.   Via ReadMeGravatar at...

What do you do when everything you write ends up in the do-not-post pile?  Because you don't know enough about some topic, without pain...

Actually, this is the list of all the things I was going to write about but did not! Remember that faux trend piece about feminism dying ...

One preliminary survey suggests that this might be the case: Over the last two years, President Obama and Congress have put the country ...

North Dakota is not a place that puts a high value on the lives of women: Voters in North Dakota, where lawmakers last week approved the...

It is about a study which finds that infants are introduced to solid foods too early if the comparison is to expert advice on when that sh...