October 2011
16 posts
Star Trek vs. Star Wars
Harry Dresden: Star Trek? Really?
Molly Carpenter: What?
Harry Dresden: There are two kinds of people in the universe, Molly. Star Trek fans and Star Wars fans. This is shocking.
Molly Carpenter: This is the post-nerd-closet world, Harry. It’s okay to like both.
Harry Dresden: Blasphemy and lies.
“The original SlutWalk came about because of an idiotic remark by a Canadian cop...”
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The Shoulders of Giants →
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Dana Horn, writing in Science about Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, who discovered that the Sun was made mostly of hydrogen — but is not given proper credit.
Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of has not so much as received a memorial plaque. Her newspaper obituaries do not mention her greatest discovery. Even today, when it has become...
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Just your average asexual~: Asexuality on... →
asexual-walks-of-life:
I just want to say, personally, that this segment was handled very very poorly, and quite frankly I’m disappointed and angry with the hosts of this show. Throughout the entire segment, both of the hosts giggled and outright laughed on the concept and complexity of Asexuality, sex and romantic…
This was disgraceful. They did nothing but belittle it and laugh and...
