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The above poster appeared at the University of Waterloo last month, plastered over the faces of female student government candidates. The text reads, "The brightest woman this Earth ever created was Marie Curie, The mother of the nuclear bomb. You tell me if the plan of women leading men is still a good idea !" This was only the beginning of a bizarre series of stunts by an anonymous misogynist who has yet to be apprehended. More »
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Radioactive: A Tale of Love and Fallout is a gorgeous graphic novel about the surprising life of Marie Curie. After the jump, some of Lauren Redniss's beautiful drawings — and fun facts about the famous physicist. More »
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If you're familiar with Title IX, you probably just think of it as the law forbidding gender discrimination in college and high school sports. But in actuality, the law forbids gender discrimination in all forms of education, and there's a growing call to apply Title IX to science departments receiving federal grants. As we've discussed before, women are opting out of "hard science" fields like physics and chemistry, though they are the majority in sciences like psychology and biology. Opponents of applying Title IX to science departments say that male bias is not to blame for the disparity — female choice is. The NY Times' John Tierney quotes columnist cum clinical psychologist Susan Pinker: "Creating equal opportunities for women does not mean that they’ll choose what men choose in equal numbers. The freedom to act on one’s preferences can create a more exaggerated gender split in some fields.” More »
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