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According to the report, many girls with extremely high aptitude for math exist, but they are rarely identified in the U.S. because they veer from a career trajectory in the mathematical sciences due to the low respect American culture places on math, systemic flaws in the U.S. public school education system, and a lack of role models. — American Culture Derails Girl Math Whizzes, Study Finds

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Shocker: girls are actually quite good at math, but our culture thinks math is stodgy and gross, so girls shy away from it. We all knew that, but nice to see it actually demonstrated…

I had the pleasure of helping the proprietor of the wonderful BrassGoggles get her software infrastructure updated. In so doing, I also read quite a bit of the archives, and it really is a fun site.

Give her some link love… all three of you. ;-)

Apparently the host of the show Dinner: Impossible had a few inaccuracies on his CV. Like faking a knighthood, and his most prominent culinary achievements.

Wanker.

If you struggle to teach kids about boolean logic gates, these might be helpful. If you’re just a logic gate fan, these might be fun.

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Found on a Tumblr:

I recently bought a four-pack of Play-Doh — big plans for the weekend — at my local Toys R Us and received, along with my purchase, over a foot and a half of receipt. That comes out to almost an inch of paper for every dime I spent. Here it is, broken down by height in inches: — An Entirely Other Day - Complete Receipt Defeat

Now, Greenpeace has been giving Apple, Inc. quite a lashing over not being quite green enough, despite their being quite a bit better than average. This is so important to the ostensibly environmentalist group that they have a top-level directory on their website dedicated to bashing Apple.

But dozens of national retailers that print multi-foot paper receipts for single-item purchases? That can’t be good…