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Fuzzy Math: Oh, Really, O'Reilly?
Right here, you can witness the magic of fuzzy math. Peter Gilles of Victoria, Canada writes to Bill O’Reilly, asking, “Has anyone noticed that life expectancy in Canada under our health care system is higher than the USA?” O’Reilly attempts to claim that this is because we are a more populous country. (He also claims [...]
Posted: July 29th, 2009 under Canada, Canadian, health care, math.
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Save the Drama For Yo' Mama: Feminism in the Classroom
So, I’m a girl. I know this may come as a shock. But don’t worry, I’ve had my cooties shots. Chances are, there are some other girls in your life. If so, you might care to hear about this article published in Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience by Associate Professor Maryjane Wraga of the Psychology [...]
Posted: December 10th, 2007 under 2006, Bush, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Gauss, Harvard University, Larry Summers, SAT, Wraga, academia, academic, affective, agency, aptitude, asian, baseline, clinton, cognitive, cognitive processes, comfort, control, controversy, cooties, courage, disempowerment, drama, empowerment, fMRI, feminism, feminist, feminists have better sex, feminists have more fun, freedom of movement, functional magnetic imaging, gender, gender disparity, gender power, genius, hillary, hypothesis, joke, language use, magazine, majors, mama, math, message, negative, neural structure, neuroscience, objectification, obscure parts, obstacle, passivity, peace, penetrating, performance, pessimism, positive, power, presidency, president, professor, psychology, race, rape, rape case, reasoning, science, sex, sexuality, smith college, social, sophie germain, spatial, stereotypes, study, surmounting, talent, test, threat, verbal, weight loss, white house, women in science.
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