- You know what’s better than a regular family tree? A family tree from Middle Earth.
- Speaking of family trees, if you’d like to get your DNA analyzed, you may have to brace yourself for the findings.
- More discussion on femininity and STEM.
- Gene to Cells, a scientific journal with the most beautiful covers. (Courtesy of The Molecular Biology Society of Japan/Blackwell Publishing)
- Write whatever you want in galaxies. GALAXIES!
- First with Hell On Wheels and now this latest addition, AMC seems to really be going for shows with racial themes with their new crop. Hopefully it bodes well for them, and other networks will follow suit in terms of diversification.
- Not a dry eye in the house: a Honduran man, disabled by polio and struggling financially, still never stopped dreaming and has worked on building a helicopter from scrap metal and junk. Check out the short documentary & the related IndieGoGo fundraiser to help the man.
- Snow Crash author Neal Stephenson teams up with a structural engineer to conceptualize a stratospheric high rise, as part of the launch of ASU’s Center for Science and the Imagination. All the collaborations sound amazing.
- Sonia Manzano (Maria on Sesame Street) has authored a new YA novel, The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano, a story of a young woman growing up in East Harlem in 1969. Enter to win a copy in a GoodReads giveaway.
- We’re a bit in awe of marketing maven Cindy Gallop’s in-your-face style and confident, brash attitude. And that tub! Check out that bathtub!
- These Engineer action figures from Prometheus are pretty cool, even if the movie (in our humble opinion) was a bit of a mess.
- Love these chemistry set shot glasses.
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Oh, I love reading about stereotypes and women in STEM fields. I saw this presentation where the researchers designed a stereotypical computer classroom and a non-stereotypical computer classroom in Second Life. The non-stereotypical classroom was more popular with female students: but it had green colored walls with pictures hanging on the walls, not bright baby pink with flowers and all those “girly” things. The participants were college students, not young girls, but the results seem to be similar. Female students aren’t encouraged by the “nerdy dude” stereotype, but they don’t want to be pandered to with Barbies and fashion magazines.
Karly, I agree. The hard part for me is finding a nice center line. I’m a chemist, and not particularly fond of pink and Barbies either, but I hate to think that if I show up in heels no one is going to take me seriously.