Women earn 45.5% of Mathematics degrees in the US. Engineering and Physics are only at around 25%, but they have been trending consistently upward. Computer Science, on the other hand, has declined from 38% to 25%. It is the only field with that dramatic decline.

Yes they have: there is a significant body of qualitative research stretching back to the early 80s. However, people are notoriously bad at describing why they made decisions, especially poorly-constrained decisions like "why didn't you study field X?" Observation of behavior are more reliable measures of preferences than asking people what their preferences are.

That said, I still recommend reading the recent Girl Scout study of teenagers. The number one concern when discussing STEM fields was "women have to work harder than men to be taken seriously."

Heck, the iPad was a clone of most good futuristic tablet computer designs. It's not about the idea, it's about the implementation.

Given the limited hands-on time, the jury is still out on the only things that matter.

Our profession is the bottom twenty of gender parity and we wonder why we don't have enough employees. Unless the lack of women makes it super-extra-appealing to men I'd assume programmers would be about 20% rarer than other similar professions with 40% participation by women.

I will support is as soon as all evidence doesn't suggest that it is counterproductive. As it is, there is no reason to support allowing parents to inflict punishments on their children we would never allow the state to inflict on its citizens.

There's a reason you were out of control: you were subject to regular assaults. Obviously they didn't work or help, or you wouldn't have been out of control in the first place.

It is straight-up assault. There is no excuse for assault; we live in a world where the law is just a tool of the rich, not justice.

They are live streaming too, if you want all the context you can handle. Most videos get trimmed because people get bored: I know that if I start watching something and nothing happens for 20 seconds I'm likely to swap to the cute cat video linked in the right bar...

Yup. Except those knitting grandmas: they seemed pretty organized and leftist, so I'm betting they're ready to stab someone in the eye with those knitting needles at any second!

Guess I'll keep illegally listening to those downloads. I started out downloading music because I was broke and lazy, now I consider it civil disobedience. Thanks music industry! Until juries start refusing to enforce ridiculous laws and people refuse to follow them, the thought police will keep criminalizing the most basic of human instincts: to share stories around a campfire.

Besides, you can always shred a fax. Once it's on a company's mail servers, it is there for life.

Worse solutions that are good enough and always work win over better solutions that require knowledge, new equipment, multiple steps and some decent luck. Just look at Dropbox!

They don't show anything internal, so body cavity bombs wouldn't show up even after the cancer-causing scan anyway. Have you even looked at the studies? Why do you want the illusion of safety at all? I'd much rather feel unsafe and be alive than feel safe and die, personally. Of course, I've watched knives be accidentally carried on planes multiple times, so I am certain security is nothing but theater.

We're lucky that there are only a few terrorists in the world and most of them, like most everyone, aren't particularly good at what they do. After all, if they were smart they'd have launched a front corporation to funnel money through to Republican-supporting PACs and try to get Congress to refuse to raise the debt ceiling again next time it comes up. A default would cause far more American infidel pain and suffering than another terrorist attack.

The way a handax is a very powerful tool. Sometimes it's the simplest, cheapest tool. Sometimes it's the tool you have on hand. Sometimes it's the only tool you have access to (say in some place without electricity). Sometimes you want to use one tool for any number of jobs. However, it is very seldom the "best" tool; it is just the most commonly used one.

Rape is gendered because it is gendered violence. Men who are targeted (and men make up 15% of rape victims) are more likely to be children or teenagers than female survivors, and more likely to have intersecting oppressions otherwise. Rape is a crime of power, and men of perceived lower status are vulnerable just like women. However, if we actually want to prevent rape we need to stop rapists from raping. That means targeting the men who commit rape is the most effective solution, since men commit 98% of rapes. If we wipe out 96% of rapes and suddenly rapists are gender-balanced, it will make sense to focus equal resources. However, both male and female survivors will be best served by dismantling the patriarchy that enables rape culture, that makes rapes against women "natural" and rapes against men a joke. There is nothing anti-male about it; it is anti-patriarchy, which harms both men and women.

If there are men reading this who seek support, resources do exist. http://www.pandys.org/malesurvivors.html has links to national hotlines that can provide referrals.