Actually, no, age of consent laws vary widely around the world. Some of the countries I send students to are as high as 20 years old. In Canada though, Canadians are required by law to ensure their sexual partners meet the age of consent laws both in Canada and the country they are travelling to. It’s meant to crack…

I scrolled forever on her published articles. For those of you following along at home: 929 articles spanning a 30 year career to her name to.... wait for it..... a mighty 22 articles between 2011-2016. His citation rate is 1.7% of hers.

Victoria’s Secret isn’t difficult to figure out. She’s essentially illiterate as she never learned her alphabet past D. ;)

I agree! I use best friend and sometimes when I’m feeling particularly poetic, sister of my heart but none of them really get to the heart of what she and I are to each other. We’re family; I’m god mother to her children. When her abusive ex tried to get rid of me (along with all her other friends) I held out. When I…

No way. I happily packed 19+ boxes of my books for my last move and I hope for my next move there will be even more. I was proud of every single one of those boxes. I love the texture of books, the look of books and the possibility of books and it is the mark of a cozy, soulful home in my opinion. Unless I have…

Did they say it was because she drank caffeine? It is a effective treatment for preemie babies to aid their brain development. I was just reading about it. 

I don’t know for sure but I think 2010 may have been the first year? I feel like I’d read it one year before in the safety of a modern house in a big city before moving to a rural area for grad school and feeling super creeped reading the stories in 2011 with nothing but woods outside my window, then getting woken at…

I’m sorry that it’s frustrating for you but that sounds like heaven to me! You inspired some googling and now a certain institution has increased in desirability should an opportunity come up. The things I have to do in order to not breathe any second hand smoke, which triggers my asthma, would surprise a lot of people…

A couple of studies I read while researching my master’s thesis determined that it was about 6 victims per undetected rapist on average, but there were some super predators with double digits. Lisak and Miller’s average was 5.8 and McWhorter’s was 6.36.

Obviously it hasn’t been frequenting the souvenir shops - all of the things I bought that didn’t come from a museum gift shop came in a “No Kangaroos in Austria” bag. 

1 year parental leave contracts - they can be a really good option for people trying to break into a field, or for employers to cross train staff or prepare someone for a promotion by giving them the chance to build needed skills. If it’s a year it also comes with benefits so it can be a real win-win all around.

Thanks for the heads up! Here is my “tall analogy” rule that I used when peer editing.

Which is an article about not using female as a noun or subject. It’s an adjective. When I was peer editing thesis’ for my classmates I used an analogy with tall. If you replace the term female in a sentence with tall does it still make grammatical sense?

I was at the (planned late) Calgary protest. It was so great seeing all the young families out for the march!

The library is in a separate safe building this time, and we all know that a certain someone thinks he’s above needing a library.

When Canada allowed X designations on their passports, our office added X to our application system and it couldn’t have been easier. Literally the easiest fix our system has ever had. Explaining to a partner university in a country with a strict binary that one of our students uses the pronouns they/them/their and…

I agree. You can still remove appointed judges from the bench but it’s not as influenced by popular opinion. For example the campaign to remove (former) Judge Camp of “why couldn’t you just keep your knees closed?” infamy, was started by law professors filing a complaint with the Canadian Judicial Council. He went…

That gives me a bit of a jolt thinking about Elizabeth Bennet and Rob Ford in the same thought!

Thank you! This helped me make the tough choice between my sweet doggie and food crops.

It’s going to the semi-finals for that category certainly. But will it go up against birth control, bees or pets? That’s gonna be a tougher one to figure out which one will make it through....