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November 16, 2012

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6:57 PM | We Can’t Blame Everything on Powerful Men
There’s certainly been no shortage of news headlines proclaiming that we can now add former CIA director General David Petraeus to the list of powerful men who have been brought down by very well-publicized sex scandals. It’s particularly dismaying to see how many of these headlines are broadly asserting, as news outlet headlines often do [...]
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General Science

March 26, 2012

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4:10 PM | Trayvon Martin’s Psychological Killer: Why We See Guns That Aren’t There.
When George Zimmerman saw Trayvon Martin walking down the street in Sanford, Florida, he quickly assumed that the Black, hoodie-clad teenager was carrying a weapon. He then pulled out his gun and fatally shot the young student, whose hands were gripping nothing more than a bag of Skittles. The fact that George Zimmerman assumed so [...]
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General Science

January 31, 2012

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5:00 PM | If It Looks Like a Compliment, and Sounds Like a Compliment…Is It Really a Compliment?
Two weeks ago I was at Science Online 2012, the annual conference for science bloggers and writers in Raleigh, NC. While there, I attended the session on Blogging Science While Female (a more detailed summary of the session can be found here). At the session, many of the women in the room expressed discouragement at [...]
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General Science

August 08, 2011

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11:00 AM | “Anything But Country”: What Factor Analysis Reveals About Our Tastes for Tunes
What’s your favorite type of music? Lil’ Wayne? AC/DC? Anything but country? We like to think that our musical preferences are somehow deeply unique and meaningfully representative of who we are as individuals. But what if I told you that when it boils down to it, we’re not all that different from each other? In [...]
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