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Showing posts with label sexism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sexism. Show all posts
Friday, 1 September 2017

The Terminator: Come With Me If You Want To Live

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Terminator 2: Judgment Day was re-released this Tuesday. I went to see it, of course, and also watched the 1984 film The Terminator on DVD...
Friday, 10 July 2015

Strength versus beauty

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This graphic has been circulated on social media for a while: I must admit, I smiled when I first saw it. But if you stop to think abo...
Wednesday, 24 June 2015

The Downfall of Sir Tim Hunt

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A couple of weeks ago, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist Sir Tim Hunt made some highly sexist remarks  in a speech to the World Conference o...
Wednesday, 10 December 2014

Pinups and teaching to code

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I did an online programming course recently; in one assignment, the students could choose their own graphics, and someone thought it was a g...
Monday, 24 November 2014

A Shirtgate challenge to Boris Johnson

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I am beginning to think NASA had the right idea, when they expected Mission Control engineers to dress like this: Ed Harris in Apollo ...
Sunday, 16 November 2014

The Rosetta shirt incident

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This week, the Rosetta mission landed a probe on a comet; but instead of a richly deserved celebration of their achievement, a lot of discu...
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