Yeah the whole "scientist have to dress down" is the very crap I don't like as well. Some scientists use the "oh well we shouldn't dress up" to wear the dirtiest, baggiest stuff I've ever seen. As I work for a major national lab in the DC area, we have to deal with administration and congress critters, so I make sure…

Yeah, I was actually surprised to see the misogyny in the female scientist community as I thought we had evolved past that. Of course given that I went to a Women in Aerospace conferencce earlier this month that was very "learn to act like a man", I guess I ought not be surprised that this is still shit people spout.…

I actually found this video less damaging to the sciences than the comments made by women in the sciences in response. Things have included referring to any woman who shows up to the lab in heels as a "bimbo" (like this blog post 's comments) and continued commentary on twitter about how women who wore a dress and/or…

Just to commemorate other firsts for women in space:

Hell, no mention of Svetlana Savitskaya who was the first woman to go into space twice!

I like parts of the town. Blue Moon and Mas especially. Some of the small minded crap gets to me there tho. And it's kinda interesting to watch the current UVA sh*tstorm.

*waves at a fellow Charlottesvillian even though I split my time between there and DC now*

Actually she already has a kid. The selection of women taikonauts is actually a little weird as China insisted on only selecting women who have reproduced already with the excuse that radiation may decrease their fertility.

It's not just a single high school with the typo, it's every high school in Prince George's County. Otherwise that 8000 graduates number looks a little suspicious when your average large high school has 300 to 500 seniors.

Freya or Fantasie both make bikini tops in that size. As a 38FF, I found the plunge Fantasie bikini top last year a little more boob-tastic than I would like, but the Mirage Balconette from Freya which I bought through FigLeaves is awesome.

I lived in Pasadena for 5 years and moved to the East Coast 3 years ago. I craved In N Out so damned much. This past November I was out in Arizona to use the telescopes and stopped at In N Out to tame the craving. Unfortunately it did cure the craving- my double double animal style was just meh. I miss their fries,…

OMG, I left Colorado in 1998 (and haven't been back for more than a few days of family crazy) and I still freaking crave Good Times. That was the first burger place I actually experienced ripe tomato on my burger and even as a tomato hater at the time, that was heaven.

Well and there is some argument over the latest round too, that maybe the people who've done the groundwork so that Type Ia's could be used as approximate standard candles should have gotten credit, like Wendy Freeman who lead an asston of Cepheid variable research.

They actually have already been going after the fragments in part thanks to weather radar data: [cosmicdiary.org]

Do you want your dresses in the delivery timeframe they give? Their website says 8 to 12 business days. I still haven't seen a shipping notification for my order, but they charged my credit card immediately in violation of the terms of their credit card processing agreement.

Laugh all you want about poorer fit possibly being a reason but at 5 ft 3 inches (near the CDC's average height for women which is 63.8 inches), I have to pick- reaching the pedals properly or risking serious injury when the airbag deploys because I'm sitting too close to the steering wheel. While the common…

Only from the water to the mean high tide line. While not well defined, it's generally accepted that if you're on wet sand, you're on state own property.

Actually I'd differ from this recommendation and say that you should primarily do things through email. That way you'll have backup to CYA when a student pulls stupid shit about "oh they said I can turn this in late" etc.

To be fair, we don't get very far up the career ladder either because there aren't a lot of options. NDT has done well though by going to science communication, he hasn't actually produced any "academic" science (aka peer reviewed publications as a primary author) since 1993.

I posted up top, but considering only 40 African Americans have received PhD's in astronomy since 1955, it is something that stands out. Our field is very white washed.