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More serious to who? Sometimes it's the little things that hit the worst.

Thank you for being wonderfully articulate.

Am I missing the part where they actually no longer intend to have female-only event staff/beer-servers? The apology makes it sound like they just changed the ad copy.

pretty much. that's why I find this valuation system that so grossly over-emphasizes future people at the expense of current ones so creeeeeepy.

That moral weight to the future hypothetical people is something that I have just now put a name to (thanks!) and the more I think about it, the more places I see it, and the creep…

Uh. what? I was trying to explain that feeling uncomfortable or violated was a reasonable reaction to a virtual strip search for people who aren't you. What the actual bleepity ble…

damn, where where you when I was buying my latest bike headlight! I ended up with a super-bright flashlight that I am quite satisfied with, but that cost a bit more than $6.

I think the point to be made is that not everyone has the same comfort zone as you do. You may not care about strangers seeing you naked, but other people do. Being naked in front …

I really liked the discussion of the habit loop. I've never seen it explained that neatly before.

Is there any evidence that private screening companies are any less skeevy than actual TSA? I'd be shocked if there was and appreciable difference between the two. They still have …

I can in no way substantiate this, but the xray ones are usually two large (maybe always blue?) mostly rectangular blocks that you stand in between. The millimeter machines are usu…

I also checked out the talk page, and if I didn't know the author was an expert, I would also have assumed he was a crank. He approached editing Wikipedia on a lark and failed to o…

ha! I will bust out my best sweet thing voice and biggest innocent eyes next time some one tries to tell me that. Even if it does only apply to the xray machines.

Basically, yes. It's very easy to end up herded through unless you're paying attention. Now I watch carefully and see which lines are going through the big scanner and which are go…

Whereas my brain boggles at how big a pain it must have been to do a literature review pre-JSTOR/Web of Science/pdfs in general. I am a voracious reader (generally 2-5 novels/equiv…

I do agree with your first point, and it would basically be a continuation of the status quo, which seems like a pretty reasonable compromise between allowing people to profit from…

The way I got over my public speaking jitters was by being a TA for highly unstructured discussion sections for ~6 semesters. I was given absolutely nothing to do with the kids, so…

The only problem with your derivative works proposal is that it won't work. Fans will make fanwork of things they are fans of, regardless of the legality involved. Akin to the cult…

Well, the fact that people are attempting to argue that, as a lady, I am somehow 'naturally' unfit for intellectual/mathematical/logical tasks is pretty insulting. I know that you …

Thank you for your kind words. I confess that I am completely taken aback that in 2012 there are still people postulating that women are not capable of or inclined toward intellect…

I'm one of those lady-types reading the comments here and getting the message loud and clear that no matter how interested I may be, or how talented I may become, I am not a welcom…

[reads all the comments about how no one wants ladies in their field anyway] And people wonder why the ladies don't want to hang out with you kids all day. Could it be that ladies …

When I was in graduate school, I saved all my documents to my dropbox folder, which was sync'd to my school laptop (OSX), my personal laptop (Windows), a lab computer where the sta…

To be clear, I don't necessarily disagree with you, but I usually hang out on liberal politics, social justice, and assorted culture blogs. In many instances, you get people coming…