Techstuff

Women & STEM

I’m starting to become somewhat unhappy with a current trend I’m seeing on-line: increasingly indignant or strident calls for women to “step up” and start…

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Is there science in Star Wars?

In exchange for a huge honkin’ load of electronics recycling, my household received four free tickets to the San Jose Tech Museum of Innovation‘s current…

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Reweaving the World

While Merchant never uses the word ecofeminism in her book, a decade later ecofeminist professors Irene Diamond and Gloria Feman Orenstein deliberately embrace it in…

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Guilty pleasures on stolen time

Passing thoughts during the days which bubble up between readings: Crockpots Crockpots are incredibly cool! While I’m familiar with them, I’d never used them to…

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Roofrats

We have roofrats! OK, not really. The new landlords decided we need a new roof, so they informed us late Saturday night via email that…

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Planning the Natural Yard

Okay, this posting is going to be a not-so-quick recap of stuff I want to keep track of for my yard work, and I’ll keep…

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Arcosanti photos

More Arcosanti photos; click on the thumbnails for a larger, clearer version of each photo. Also, you can read my thoughts on Arcosanti here, for…

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