Cell Culture and Science Culture
...about her work can be found at aliciapuglionesi.com. Lady Science is an independent magazine that focuses on the history of women and gender in science, technology, and medicine and provides...
Avoid All Demonstrations as a Precaution
...has an odd sense of timing, geography, or dark humor. In lieu of alerts warning students from recently bombed or attacked sites in Baghdad and Kandahar or ongoing protests in...
Social media and sensibility
...more efficacious than material luxuries in providing pleasure. The competency to extract affect from texts becomes a core part of the middle-class habitus, a challenge to the aristocratic mode of...
Your Friends and Neighbors
...down Is Anyone Up for good. The site's URL redirected to a long essay from Moore on anti-bullying site Bullyville.com explaining that he'd gotten tired of reporting all the underaged...
An Emancipation Proclamation to the Motherhood of America
...and civics to green card holders. Her writing has appeared in Time.com, Atlas Obscura, Untapped Cities, and Hazlitt. Lady Science is an independent magazine that focuses on the history of...
Fact Check!
...a blog-turned-book, regrettheerror.com, and has a column on Poynter.org. Silverman calls fact-checking the "new American pastime" and is a serious and measured commentator: He appears genuinely concerned with setting the...
(Pro)Creating Science: The Parenting Metaphor, Gender, and Scientific Memory
...medicine and provides an accessible and inclusive platform for writing about women on the web. For more articles, information on pitching, and to subscribe to our newsletter, visit ladyscience.com....
After the Screening: This is Not a Film (Podcast)
...director Patrick Harrison discuss the film as they walk through the streets of New York immediately upon leaving the screening. [audio:http://thenewinquiry.com/app/uploads/2012/06/ThisIsNotAMoviePodcast.mp3|titles=After the Screening: This is Not a Film] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpHGu8HLK6s...
The Science of Life as Art and Dissent
...include eighteenth-century aesthetic theory/philosophy, poetry, art history, media, and music. Currently Chris teaches for the Department of English and School of Communication at Loyola University Chicago. Contact: [email protected]; http://theboundingline.com/....
Reputation scores and hedged friendship
...recently, reputation-management companies like Reputation.com are eager to help with this, offering to monitor mentions of you and develop mop-up strategies for problems. They also hope in the future to...
The Science of What Makes Pain So Personal
...(Palgrave, 2014). Lorraine Boissoneault has previously written for The Atlantic, Hakai, LitHub, Nautilus, Mental_Floss, and SmithsonianMag.com. Lady Science is an independent magazine that focuses on the history of women and...
Black Friday
...Alibaba.com, sometimes known as "the Chinese eBay", connects shoppers looking to purchase commodities in bulk directly with manufacturers from across the world. The site encompasses more or less...
In Defense of Spontaneous Contestation and/or Beauty
...in unison.' This seems inarguable, especially given how (1) activists have at least since the 2004 DNC and RNC conventions coordinated their real-bodies via TXTMobbing, a technology developed for communicating...
Yes We Keynes!
...that whatever the government does, private firms could do better; and, of course, the Efficient-Markets Hypothesis, which assumes that when investors floated pets.com $82.5 million in its initial public offering,...
Capitalism with a Fluffy Face
The latest way tech companies have promoted their questionable self-image as the antithesis of old, evil corporations has been to open their offices not to unions, but to dogs
Conspicuous Consumption
...be born blind. That was the idea behind the (now defunct) vegan-run website Exvegans.com, which listed ex-vegans by state, with snide comments about their Judas-like betrayals of the animals, and...