Of course, if you are accused of a crime don't talk to the police and get an attorney. However, if you are accusing of a crime, get an attorney.

Personally, I think part of the reason for this is that I suspect the students more likely to boycott tend to be the better students, which would hurt the school's averages badly.

"Previously, researchers speculated that maybe black women simply weren't trying as hard as their white counterparts ("Maybe they're lazy!" being a more popular guess than "Maybe their bodies use energy differently!" is fucked up)."

Right. I learned this the hard way when I mentioned to a woman I knew very well for years that I did not know anybody who had been raped. Well, it turns out, I did and she was sitting across the table from me... I know 2 women who told me they have been raped, one who was sexually assaulted and another who was…

Whatever the effects of having a daughter are on fathers' ideology, it is small compared to factors like your parents' ideology on your ideology. Focusing on this is like, if I wanted to lose weight, lamenting a factor that might cause my weight to increase 6 ounces instead of focusing on the factor that would cause…

Some people combine NFP with condoms, sure, but that is not standard NFP promoted by the Roman Catholic Church which excludes any "artificial contraception" including condoms. Standard NFP uses no barrier.

NFP has similar use efficacy to hormonal contraception. Your "more so" comment is plain wrong. People who use hormonal contraception incorrectly or NFP incorrectly get pregnant. That said, NFP means a couple has to schedule their sex life in advance. Hormonal contraception, barrier contraception, IUD or…

I have already been rebuked by the robot overlords... You see, I was working at a grocery store and was scheduled to close 4 nights in a row. We never stay as late as scheduled at closing because we finish 15-25 minutes early. Someone asked me to cover his shift later in the week and I agreed, but the computer…

When I describe myself and a neuroscientist and geneticist, people do not realize that most days I am either adding little drops of water to other little drops of water, or watching a video of a mouse or hamster while clicking on a stop watch and scratching a tally onto a sheet of paper... Such glamorous work.…

How do we know the sex, age, etc. of an author? You soon come to know the labs and authors in your corner of science. You talk to them at the major meetings. You talk to the scientists and they refer to Roy, Judith, Kevin, Henrik, Houda and Jackie. You email them with questions and they sign with Chloe, Yu-Lung,…

Loki of Norse religion was such a master of disguise that when he disguised himself as a woman, he ended up getting pregnant...

I saw a real political science piece on this once. Undecided women voters who know little about politics, only vote in presidential elections and don't follow the news choose candidates based on who they feel connects with them best at an emotional level. In other words, a tiny, tiny slice of the population that will…

You wrote "crime drama," "help her get justice," "their hands are still tied" and "beyond reasonable doubt." So... I thought you were writing about proving in court.

My post said "prove it in court." Your original post was about proof in court. That means proof beyond reasonable doubt by legal standards. I am sorry if it was not clear, but I did not mean proof by scientific standards. If you don't even have the evidence to meet court trial beyond reasonable doubt standards, you…

In that case, instead of it being one witness' word against another witness' word, it would be 2 witness' words against one witness. That is an entirely different beast from this case. From what I have heard (I am no attorney, but I heard this from attorney and professor James Duane and officer George Bruch in the…

I almost agree with you. However, if you cannot prove it, it usually means you do not know. I feel the attitude of "we know this but cannot prove it in court" is how we get people being released from prison later with "oops, turns out we had the wrong guy all along." Either it is true or it is not and I don't know and…

Yes. Only send money to reputable charities (e.g., American Red Cross).

Nelson Mandela fought the injustice of apartheid. I fought an unjust parking ticket.

Same. I was told in 3rd grade that from 4th grade through college, all writing would be in cursive. We used it 4th and 5th grade, and stopped during 6th grade. Aside from when I need to write ln for natural logarithm or my scibbley signature, the next time I used cursive was an official document when I was 37 years…

Cursive is an artsy derivative of scribbly writing use in producing repetitive legal documents. The idea was that these (pre-printing press) documents were uniform, therefore they need not be legible. You could scribble faster than you could print, so these documents could be produced in under 2 minutes instead of…