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Comment Re:Real problem (Score 0) 606

How about being a female physics doctorate working for the Army Research Lab? There are many many examples from professors not answering questions unless a male student asked, to sexual harassment, to the presumption that you are the secretary when you go to a conference. Just because you don't see the sexism in the physics field doesn't mean its not there.

Comment Re:I admit I'm curious (Score 5, Informative) 606

As someone that works at an Ivy league veterinary school I just have to point out that there are actually programs to help men enter the field due to the current imbalance. There are also similar programs for men in nursing. They vary from everything including better work balance, family time off and mentoring.

Comment Re:OP vs Reality (Score 1) 112

Just because it has a similar population density does not make it a valid comparison. Look at the two maps below, Nearly a quarter of their 5.4 million people live in Helsinki alone. If all of them have 100mbs connections or better it will be easy to have an average speed 5x the USA even if those in rural areas have no internet connection at all. I know it is popular to hate on the US for doing a crappy job rolling out broadband but we really have to stop comparisons to countries that are distinctly different. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi... http://education.randmcnally.c...

Comment Re:Hippism? (Score 2) 221

The unfortunate thing is at the college level equestrian teams are now considered a female sport in the USA so that their funding can balance out male sports due to Title 9 requiring equal spending. I have no idea how this will reflect in the sport in the long run but it certainly prevented me from competing in college where as a male I would have to pay for all of my own lessons and competitions. I doubt there will be much change in the upper levels as one of the biggest factors is still quality of horse (money) but I am curious to watch long term trends.

Comment Re:Scientific Method (Score 1) 258

Got to love the publicity of a study with a n of 1. Seriously how is this considered research? A. the bacteria would probably survive the freezing, it is more the molds that would die off and lower the smell. B. Five different kinds of bacteria can be five strains of E coli when he forgot to wipe or five nasty varied ones. C. Why no enumeration on the bacteria? There could have been 1 or millions. Really the biggest thing would be how much moisture was in them when they were stored for the night. I wonder if when he froze them he had an auto defrosting freezer that takes the moisture out of the air? Also definitely a nasty study that I think they should force on all first year bio students to up their N values. They are not going to get laid anyways.
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How Do You Manage Your SD Card Library? 485

txmadman writes "Like a lot of my colleagues and all of my three children, I have several SD , mini-SD, and micro-SD cards for various purposes: cameras, cell phones, my laptop, etc. These things are handy to have around, offer easy and significant storage, but are very easily lost. We have also have run into some instances where it wasn't clear whose SD card was whose, and have also started to see a need for a storage mechanism. I have seen SD card 'wallets' and such, but have never seen anyone actually use one. So: How do you manage and keep track of your SD cards?"

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