Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
If you’re a woman in science you are probably aware of what seems like a recent outbreak of harassment scandals in the scientific community. There was the shocking outspoken misogyny of Noble laureate Tim Hunt in June of last year, the two extremely alarming cases, nearly one right after the other, of male astronomers harassing…
It’s a common refrain in comments sections across the land: The pay gap is nothing more than a manifestation of the fact that women prefer low-paying occupations. Well, guess what? When women move en masse to a male-dominated field, paychecks wither. At the New York Times, Claire Cain Miller slices the pay gap several different…
Dreamin’ of a matriarchal society… Photo: JGI/Tom Grill/Blend Images Loughborough University’s Sleep Research Center recently conducted a study that found women need more sleep than men. About 20 more minutes of sleep per night, to be precise. Why? The director of the Sleep Research Center told the New York Post: “Women’s…
But running an office made up exclusively of millennials, it turns out, is not without its snags. His philosophy was tested when Mr. Pavelski, Mic’s director of programming, requested a week off, ostensibly to attend a wake back home in Wisconsin. “I went to talk to Joel and said, ‘So sorry about your loss, take…
paging_filter On Friday afternoon, a Florida jury returned a verdict in favor of professional wrestler Hulk Hogan in his suit against Gawker Media, finding that Gawker had invaded his privacy when it published a brief excerpt of a 30-minute sex tape featuring Hogan that it had anonymously received. Hogan had asked for $100 million in…
I’ve been fantasizing about writing fiction a lot lately. I lie in the bathtub and think about what utterly batshit things I could hide in a novel, things I’d never have to answer for. I’m sure that “So, how much of this character is autobiographical?” would get annoying fast, but anything would be preferable to…
Honesty isn’t always the best policy. Redditor Vocivus uploaded a photo of his grandmothers “decorative rock,” which she has had in her house for eight years. Only problem is, this isn’t a rock. It’s actually an old, dried out Jawbreaker. “I don’t have the heart to tell her,” the Redditor wrote on their post. They…
People with relatively minor health problems—say, the flu or a deep cut—aren’t the only ones getting relief from growing walk-in “urgent care” companies such as CityMD and PM Pediatrics. These companies also are providing a little tonic to retail landlords. In the last four years, more than 20 of these centers have opened in the…
On an early Friday morning in late June 2006, Cheyenne Szydlo, a 33-year-old Arizona wildlife biologist with fiery red hair, drove to the Grand Canyon’s South Rim to meet the river guide who would be taking her along the 280 miles of the Colorado River that coursed a mile below. She was excited. Everyone in…
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