Reddit could so easily be a great site if it wasn’t so heavily dudebro-dominated. Even as it is, if you stay out of the main subreddits, there’s some interesting discussions. I really wish there was a Reddit equivalent that skewed as heavily female as Reddit skews white male. I suppose there’s Tumblr but the format…

Star Trek Voyager: Year of Hell. It should have been an entire season. With no time travel reset. Hard decisions. Hard consequences.

But Uber is, like, NOTORIOUSLY bad for handling customer issues. So I can understand why she was blowing them up. It took arguing with them for almost a month for them to refund a $55 charge they gave me when they mistakenly sent me an Uber Black car instead of an UberX like I’d requested, but the driver told me when…

To be fair, I would also be “freaking the fuck out” if a company had repeatedly tried to charge $12,000 to my credit card. And based on my personal experience with Uber being terrible at handling customer complaints, I wouldn’t exactly feel assured simply because someone from Uber told me that they were escalating my…

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That’s right — every single person who worked on this, from the sound crew to the on camera talent is a woman. “All women. Over 70 women!” Tarver tells Jezebel, shamelessly.

Hi there, checking sources and using common sense is my specialty. There are a variety of different calculations for calorie burn, and rather than quibbling between them, what’s useful is to figure out what works for YOU, using the calculations as a ballpark. Dick’s post on setting reasonable calorie goals gets into…

the last paper I have read on that subject stated that yes, men and women have different brains and wiring, but that this only reflects changes that occur during a lifetime. As in: the brains are wired differently because of the person being treated differently. A life time of “you are a girl, behave like one” makes…

I am a neuroscientist, and I am sorry you have so many recommendations for repeating the same old stereotypes by referring to “scientific research”. There is NO neuroscientific evidence that if women would be given the same circumstances as men, they could not excel as much - even on the group level. Fact is that if…

So back in August, I managed to get my hands on an Unlimited Pasta Pass at Olive Garden. Unlimited Pasta for 7 weeks for only $100. I gave it as a gift to my now-husband, where got giant bowls of medicre pasta, salad, and breadsticks 8 times a week.

As a biologist myself (not in neuro, though!), I wonder whether the different ways of problem solving are biological or sociological — as in, women are raised differently in a patriarchal society and therefore learn to solve things in different ways from men.

... there is a increasing volume of research that suggests that men and women solve mental tasks in different ways (not better or worse just different) ...

Unfortunately, stupid attitudes haven’t really changed in 50 years. Women were only allowed to compete in the bobsled starting in 2002 because they were deemed “fragile”.

Also, I will now use the fear of my uterus falling out as an excuse to skip out on any exercise.

Yes, this was indeed a fantastic article. People’s ignorance never ceases to amaze me. I mean they really thought a woman’s uterus would fall out from running? They grow and eventually push a human out of that area without it coming lose so why the fuck would gravity have a problem with a jog? It reminds me of the…