I'm a visiting grad student/faculty something at UMD right now... and I definitely see people wearing those things as outerwear during the winter, but (at least in my building) it seems to come off when they get inside... the leggings though... my god they are everywhere. I have seen way too many cameltoes.

It even manages to creep inside! One of the hallways on the ground floor of my building always reeks. I wish more states would make laws preventing smoking within a certain distance of entrances.

It's kind of interesting to me... when I was little my mom worked for a large undergrad - and I definitely remember the students dressing sort of like the stereotype. Something seems to have changed since then but I can't put my finger on what.

I graduated in 2009 and I NEVER saw anyone doing this... not even during a class I had that started at 7:30 am. Plus, I'm at a large undergrad and I never see people dressed like that.

When I moved out of Texas... I was kind of shocked to find out most states don't have laws about smoking near entrances of buildings. I'm hating all these smoke-stinking entrances to buildings in Maryland.

Finding medical professionals willing to support whacky ideas and laws isn't particularly hard. Medical doctors are much more socially conservative as a whole than you would think... and requiring the support of some group like the AMA could cause a whole mess of problems.

Haven't previous studies shown that height in women is only helpful up to a point in terms of career success? I can't remember exactly what the study said, but I thought the height vs. success thing only held up well in males.

Why hello relationship expert.

What's funny... I had great sex ed in middle school and elementary school in Texas... in high school I had some random abstinence only thing from the Coalition for Life.

My (Austin - yes the magical kingdom in the middle of Texas is often fucked up too) high school had an amusing policy for sex ed: your health teacher chose how to teach it. This meant that some of my friends had normal sex ed and I ended up with someone from the Coalition for Life coming in to teach that portion of…

haha, thankfully it's really, really hard to make me visibly pissed.

INTJ too... I have two visible emotions: happy and pissed.

Can I be high and mighty because, even as a lover of most every ridiculous zombie thing, the jokes I keep seeing on facebook are totally rubbing me the wrong way? Haha

Maybe some of her other ramblings are amazing and hilarious, but this piece is definitely not going to get too many people here jumping at the chance to read her blog.

That article was beautiful.

Honestly, I'm possibly the furthest thing from being serious and I will laugh at damned near anything. Except for bro humor... and in my book... this is bro humor that is obnoxious, sexist and slightly homophobic - and this isn't even a situation that I can really relate to... so yeah, not funny for me.

Awesome.

So... this was supposed to be funny?

The science literacy of the writers on this site is horribly, horribly depressing considering how often they decide to write about science and/or medicine.

I've heard a lot of horror stories (and experienced them myself) and I think that it might take a pretty thick skin for people to keep hanging around so I can definitely see why it's not for everyone.