Agreed. I hate when people respond to school shootings with "wouldn't it have been nice if passers-by had firearms?"

Heh. Mostly I verbally browbeat him with other people's stories (especially about gaming and how in women in nerd circles are treated) and told him that his never having seen it doesn't mean it's not there. After some hysterics once or twice about how women are conditioned to fear the world and be prepared to always…

I've been pretty ragey about this crap lately as well. Although I'm bothered by the idea that your man-person still shows you your own personal brand of sexism. I yelled that out of my husband long ago.

Oh I know that feel. I'm a Master's student, and I haven't gained that much weight since I started grad school almost 2 years ago, but it's been really hard to find time to work out and while my weight has only gone up a few pounds, my body has definitely changed. I'm anxious a lot as well, and that makes me just…

WHAT is with all the sheer boob-panels?

Yeah.

Holy shit. :( I'm so sorry that happened. Thanks for sharing your experience, I'd actually never heard anyone's personal experience with why a warning would have been helpful.

Bah! Star Trek puns make me uncomfortably happy.

I'm definitely struggling to keep that weight off. I eat pretty well, but in the US I have to work out and eat well to stay at a lower weight. That apparently wasn't the case in Europe.

Aghh, I wish I had a whole foods in my town SO BADLY. I don't know if my problems are with GMOs (and as someone who works in agriculture research I'm disinclined to think so) but I think we process things like crazy here.

I don't know what it is we do to our food in the U.S., but we definitely must modify it somehow that the Euro nations don't.

That article confused and irritated me.

Seriously. Close your damn mouth for one fucking picture, jeezus.

Was her job just to stand around the natives with a stupid look on her face?

The bees get moved around to do the almond pollination in California, and then they tend to wander around pollinating other crops until they end up back home. Clover isn't the only thing that bees can have in their diet, as evidenced by the fact that almonds (and pretty much everything else) need bees to pollinate…

I don't know, the bee researcher at my university studies disease populations in honeybees and there's doesn't appear to be any evidence of a spike in disease after moving. The bees seem surprisingly chill about it.

Agreed, the honeybee researcher at my university (and most of her colleagues) all seem to think that there are probably several contributing factors to CCD.

That would be different than an altercation, being that it is a threat.

Yeah, how dare she talk about an unusual job that none of us are particularly familiar with just to share her experience? What a narcissist!

I think being attacked by a stalker and defending yourself and punching someone because they sad a mean thing are WAY not the same thing.