AS I PREPARE to apply for a PhD program and fantasize about a career at a prestigious research institution or blazing campaign trails while getting…
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Reddit has been called many things: a news aggregator, a social networking service, and even a platform for free speech. But while the first two…
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THIS PAST WEEK, the U.S. News STEM Solutions conference gathered 1500 professionals in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics in order to develop…
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LIKE ANY clever piece of political rhetoric, the term “family values” gathers together a range of controversial ideas under an innocent and disarming banner. “Family values”…
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HEADSTRONG: 52 WOMEN WHO CHANGED SCIENCE AND THE WORLD is a collection of lively short histories, by author Rachel Swaby, on the work of past…
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ERIN CONDREN is one of those people who prove that you don’t need to fork up tons of dough for a pricey business school degree…
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THE SAD TRUTH for people who like feminism, and T-shirts, and are wont to have a tiny, feminist-t-shirty orgasm when these two things combine: feminist…
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WHEN AMERICANS THINK of Russell Brand, they’re most likely to see him, in their mind’s eye, straddling an elephant on an Indian beach in the…
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FOR A LONG TIME, the stereotype of a “gamer” — someone who plays a large amount of video games (video or mobile) and is generally…
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THE WORKPLACE is nowhere near being an even playing field for men and women, and you have to wonder what that would even look like…
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