Send Bruzynski to HELL (or the atheist equivalent)
A short but important note: If you have ever encountered someone trying to raise money (often well over $100k) to get treatment at the “Burzynski clinic”, gently (and tactfully) explain to them that...
View ArticleHow Stuff Works: Dancing Squid
Discovery Networks Explains the famous “Dancing Squid” video. Thanks to this rather eerie video, thousands of people were creeped into learning more about the basic chemistry of life just because they...
View ArticleFemale engineers. You suck at selling yourself.
Women working in male dominated fields are painfully aware that at least some of their colleagues will have trouble seeing them as professional equals. I am in my early 30s and I still occasionally...
View ArticleHow I failed at office skepticism.
This is a story that dates back to an earlier era. Internet 1.0 if you want to put it that way. Back in the days before Facebook where email was still the number one way to share weird links, jokes,...
View ArticleHow you dress says a lot about your self-awareness. You don't have total...
Women are going to hate me for saying that what they wear matters. I know this. Recently I saw this article in The Age Online. In short, it describes how women sitting in a university waiting room...
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Two attractive women working in IT? Together? Pure. Fantasy.
Minor debate has fired up in parts of the Australian IT community over whether this ad is sexist. [Read More…]
View ArticleMan builds miniature 12 cylinder engine. From Scratch. In spanish. Coolness.
Chas from Hague sent this link to me after reading my blog post linking to an “explosion engine video” I work with high horsepower 16+ cylinder engines every day so this video spoke to my heart. I wont...
View ArticleA higher proportion of male geniuses may not be biologically determined after...
When it came to the debate over whether there were more male maths geniuses than female, it always bothered me that the data appeared to demostrate a larger number of men at the extremes of IQ (both...
View ArticlePenny Wong and Sophie Allouache have a baby and it's boring. Fantastic!
Penny Wong (Federal minister for finance) and Sophie Allouache (partner and public servant) finally give birth to their first child. Australia has taken a step further into equality and rationality by...
View ArticleYou can't beat the train. Its not like cutting in front of a car. Moron.
Today I saw this story about three people who were injured after being dragged (inside their vehicle) 250m by a moving train. They are injured but largely OK I believe. The level crossing had excellent...
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