Hello world!
Kerrigan is having her first book published! Hooray! Publication date is May 18, 2007. You can get more info at the following links: Creatrix Books and Kerrigan’s new website!
(much credit and kudos to Chris as creator and webmaster of aforementioned new website!)
It is true that the “women” you see in fashion magazines don’t truly exist. Even Cindy Crawford has said “even I don’t wake up looking like Cindy Crawford.” Now you can watch the evolution from reality to fantasy. I had to watch it twice.
From AOL News:
An Iranian-American telecommunications entrepreneur took off Monday on a Russian rocket bound for the international space station, achieving her dream of becoming the the world’s first paying female space tourist.
Iranian-American telecommunications entrepreneur Anousheh Ansari paid a reported $20 million to become the fourth private astronaut to take a trip on a Russian spacecraft and visit the space station.
Families Weight Comments May Harm Girls for Years is the title of the article. This may seem obvious, but I sure wish someone had pointed that out to my parents. You know, diet programs at age eleven are 1) never a very good idea and 2) really hard on one’s self esteem, not to mention waistline. I have heard that kids will self-regulate their eating quite unselfconsciously. Thus, if one presents healthy options — both for eating and excercise — that should be all the “commentary” necessary.
This article from the San Jose Mercury News, Seeing the World from Both Sides, is worth a read:
When a Stanford University neurobiologist made a case this week that discrimination, not genetics, keeps women out of science, his comments carried more weight than usual.
Ben A. Barres spent most of his life — and his career as an accomplished scientist — as a woman. Only nine years ago did he complete the process of changing into a man; only recently, he says, did he begin to realize how bias holds women back.
Oddly enough, I just had a conversation about this with Bryan Monroe from work. One point I’ve heard before that this article doesn’t make: girls in science classes often give up on further science if they don’t excel, while boys are encouraged to continue even if they do poorly. That seemed telling to me, because it’s less about a specific person discriminating and more about internalized cultural bias.