Autor Iva, March 31, 2013
Autor Iva, March 17, 2013 básnička k Medzinárodnému dňu žien
sexuálna výchova inak:
výborné fotky (zaujímalo by ma, či je nejaká mama, ktorej sa nepritrafilo to, čo je na tej poslednej – použitie WC s dieťaťom v náručí)
Leonard Nemoy (Spock) odpovedá na list od dievčaťa zo zmiešanej rodiny (1968)
o tých, čo sa potápali a potápajú do veľkých hĺbok (skoro ako Magická hlbočina, ale nie celkom)
Today it is an economic and even geopolitical necessity for oil companies, in order to maintain pipelines and offshore rigs, to send divers routinely to depths of a thousand feet, and keep them at that level of compression for as long as a month at a time. The divers who do this work are almost entirely male, and tend to be between the ages of twenty-five and forty. Were they any younger, they would not have enough experience or seniority to perform such demanding tasks. Any older, and their bodies could not be trusted to withstand the trauma. The term for these extended-length descents is “saturation diving,” which refers to the fact that the diver’s tissues have absorbed the maximum amount of inert gas possible.
niečo, čomu Američania nerozumejú
Pooling risk in this way is arguably the most important function of the modern welfare state, which began to emerge in America in the 1930s in response to the Great Depression. In times of crisis, social insurance functions as a kind of disaster relief. Private insurers have neither deep enough pockets nor the administrative apparatus to insure the population as a whole against disruptions on this scale. And while it’s easy to say our neighbours should be responsible for themselves, it’s hard on society when a large number of citizens fall sick or lose their jobs. Keeping the general population healthy and able to provide for itself is clearly a public good in the sense that it increases productivity, lowers crime, and so on.
But Americans have a poor understanding of how this core business works, and how they benefit. Instead of thinking about entitlement programmes as insurance against economic hardship, they think of them as a kind of charity that goes to other people. They are quick to scold others for taking “handouts”, unaware that they are stretching out their own hands. In 2008 a Cornell Survey Research Institute poll found that 57% of Americans said that they had never used a “government social program”. But when those respondents were asked about specific programmes—like Social Security, unemployment insurance, student loans and the home-mortgage interest deduction—94% had used at least one. On average, in fact, they had used four different social programmes over the course of their lifetimes. A more recent Census Bureau survey found that nearly half of Americans received direct benefits in 2011.
making sense of the world
Autor Iva, February 24, 2013 rodičovstvo ako prostriedok pre osobný rast – od môjho brata; vraj mi tým nechcel nič naznačiť; Inak si myslím, že niečo na tom bude, ale je to veľmi zjednodušený pohľad na vec. Ako som mu odpísala
do určitej miery je to podľa mna pravda, ale
a) to predpokladá, že matka má na tie aktivity popri staraní sa o deti ešte čas a energiu a niekto iný sa o ne stará, keď ich ona robí
b) nie je to pre každého – niekto by sa rád vrátil, tam kde prestal pred materskou, len to nejde, lebo zrazu nemôže robiť také hodiny napr
c) keď mamy po materskej hľadajú zamestnanie, tak Ti môžem garantovať, že tie 3,4,5 rokov čo boli doma im nikto neuzná ako školenie v manažmente a people skills
d) čo sa týka platu a seniority, tak tých par rokov sa v klasických zamestnaniach prejaví
Ako ženy – ktorým je sprievodca určený predovšetkým – by sme v expertnom hodnotení uvítali vo väčšej miere zameranie sa na zdravie matiek a detí po pôrode. Cítime znepokojenie nad tým, že odborníci uprednostnili zo širšej ponuky ukazovateľov epidurálnu analgézu pri pôrode (PEDA) namiesto nejakého indikátora zdravia ženy po pôrode. Takéto informácie nie sú prístupné ani verejnosti, takže o šanciach ženy a dieťaťa prejsť pôrodom bez vážnejšej zdravotnej ujmy si môžeme vytvárať iba dohady. Údaje o miere nástrihov a cisárskych rezov majú slúžiť k ilustrácii toho, aké ťažké, priam až nemožné je v niektorých zariadeniach porodiť dieťa bez chirurgického zásahu. V situácii, kedy takáto šanca klesá v mnohých pôrodniciach pod 20 %, nám pripadá absurdné zameriavať sa na PEDA. Radi by sme rodili v takých pôrodniciach, kde rovnako záleží na dlhodobých dopadoch medicínskych zásahov na zdravie ženy a dieťaťa a kde sa personál z tohoto dôvodu snaží tieto zásahy minimalizovať na bezpečnú úroveň. Uvedomujeme si, že ako laičky nedokážeme posúdiť opodstatnenie lekárskeho zásahu v konkrétnom prípade, avšak všeobecná miera zásahovosti oproti ostatným vyspelým krajinám a tiež odporúčaniam Svetovej zdravotníckej organizácie sa nám javí neobhájiteľná.
The sociologist Pamela Stone studied a group of mothers who had made these decisions. Typically, she found, they phrased their decision in terms of a preference. But when they explained their “decision-making process,” it became clear that most had made the “choice” to quit work only as a last resort — when they could not get the flexible hours or part-time work they wanted, when their husbands would not or could not cut back their hours, and when they began to feel that their employers were hostile to their concerns. Under those conditions, Professor Stone notes, what was really a workplace problem for families became a private problem for women.
This is where the political gets really personal. When people are forced to behave in ways that contradict their ideals, they often undergo what sociologists call a “values stretch” — watering down their original expectations and goals to accommodate the things they have to do to get by. This behavior is especially likely if holding on to the original values would exacerbate tensions in the relationships they depend on.
In their years of helping couples make the transition from partners to parents, the psychologists Philip and Carolyn Cowan have found that tensions increase when a couple backslide into more traditional roles than they originally desired. The woman resents that she is not getting the shared child care she expected and envies her husband’s social networks outside the home. The husband feels hurt that his wife isn’t more grateful for the sacrifices he is making by working more hours so she can stay home. When you can’t change what’s bothering you, one typical response is to convince yourself that it doesn’t actually bother you. So couples often create a family myth about why they made these choices, why it has turned out for the best, and why they are still equal in their hearts even if they are not sharing the kind of life they first envisioned.
M. Gullerová: Slovensko by malo vytvoriť podmienky pre návrat slovenských vedcov zo zahraničia
Vedu treba popularizovať, pretože vývoj celej spoločnosti závisí od vedeckého pokroku. Treba si uvedomiť, že ak vedci zostanú v nedocenenej pozícii, čoraz menej mladých ľudí pôjde vedu študovať a robiť. Jednoznačne by prospelo, keby slovenské inštitúcie a univerzity sledovali svojich absolventov v zahraničí, pozývali ich späť, povedzme prednášať, a tým umožnili slovenským študentom osobne sa stretnúť s vedcami zo zahraničia. Taktiež je dôležité viac popularizovať jednotlivých vedcov, ktorí sa presadili svojou prácou. Napr. v top vede je stále veľmi málo žien. Určite by pomohlo, keby sa viac hovorilo o ženách – vedkyniach, ktoré dokážu zvládnuť top kariéru aj rodinu.
Autor Iva, December 9, 2012 tento týždeň som bola v kníhkupectve dvakrát, ale na takúto sekciu som tam nenatrafila
OK Go: Skyscrapers
fotky roku 2012
women as academic authors
Women’s presence in higher education has increased, but as authors of scholarly papers—keys to career success—their publishing patterns differ from those of men. Explore nearly 1,800 fields and subfields, across four centuries, to see which areas have the most female authors and which have the fewest, in this exclusive Chronicle report. See how overall percentages differ from the important first-author position and—in two major bioscience fields—from the prestigious last-author position.
dlžíš mi – ťažké čítanie; nehovorte, že ste neboli varovaní
Students don’t often address their cancer directly, in the day-to-day of the classrooms. They write about thunderstorms, or animals, or when they’re being more serious, about family and the homes they left behind. However, conquering insurmountable odds and tricking fate are common themes. When they do write directly about their cancer, they don’t write poems, they write essays detailing their experience. Except when a child is about to die. Then they often choose poetry, they often speak directly to God.
o filme Miss Representation a sebakritike
We cannot truly reject the random fantasies of men until we fully accept the varied realities of women. With that, we can model for our daughters the self-love we so desperately want them to own.
Autor Iva, November 11, 2012 interaktívne učenie
Thus Mazur begins a class with a student-sourced question, then asks students to think the problem through and commit to an answer, which each records using a handheld device (smartphones work fine), and which a central computer statistically compiles, without displaying the overall tally. If between 30 and 70 percent of the class gets the correct answer (Mazur seeks controversy), he moves on to peer instruction. Students find a neighbor with a different answer and make a case for their own response. Each tries to convince the other… After two or three minutes, the students vote again, and typically the percentage of correct answers dramatically improves. Then the cycle repeats.
o tejto fotke (The selective blindness of rape culture)

bezpečnostné inštrukcie v lietadle trochu inak (h/t zuz)
ďalšia dobrá “what if?” esej od autora xkcd - What if everyone actually had only one soul mate, a random person somewhere in the world?
filter rakovinových buniek inováciou roka (zľahka súvisí: takto si niekedy pripadám)
sveter s netradičným vzorom – rozkladom na prvočísla
čo robiť, keď všetci vaši priatelia začnú mať bábätká – ruská fotografka fotila spiace páry počas tehotenstva
Ja som vcelku tolerantný človek. Ale násilie voči deťom, mladým dievčatám? Keby bolo po mojom, tak vinníci by v týchto prípadoch nielen zaplatili za to, čo urobili, ale by pritom museli trpieť. Kanaďanka Amanda Todd spáchala samovraždu kvôli chlapíkovi, s ktorým sa zoznámila na internete a ktorý ju potom prenasledoval. Dvaja učitelia v Californii sexuálne zneužívali Kristen Cunnane od jej 12tich rokov, jedného za to odsúdili, druhý spáchal samovraždu, ale súd rozhodol aj o tom, že Kristen si za svoje znásilnenie môže sama. (WTF?) Pakistanská matka kyselinou zabila svoju 15-ročnú dcéru, pretože tá sa pozerala na chlapca.
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A ešte zopár liniek pri príležitosti tohtotýždňových amerických prezidentských volieb:
Prezident Obama a deti (fotky)
Prezident Obama odpovedá dievčaťu, ktoré má dvoch otcov
“If you were me and you had two dads that loved each other and kids at school teased you about it, what would you do?” And guess what! Obama wrote Sophia back. His advice: “A good rule is to treat others the way you hope they will treat you. Remind your friends at school about this rule if they say something that hurts your feelings.”
Romney a ženy
ženy sú nová väčšina (ešte jedno ďakujem pre Zuz)
But in this election, it became abundantly clear that women’s issues are not fringe issues, and women are not a special interest group. Instead it was women who cast the bulk of the votes this election – 53%, and women who proved the deciding factor, breaking in Barack Obama’s favour by 11 percentage points.
čo vie google o prezidentských voľbách
Political insight: people lie to pollsters, and probably on Facebook. But not to Google’s search bar
Autor Iva, October 30, 2012
Autor Iva, September 23, 2012 
Aj som sa tento týždeň chystala niečo napísať o profesorke, ktorá kojila na prednáške, ale natrafila som na tento výborný článok (aj obrázok je odtiaľ), ktorý zahŕňa nielen moje komentáre ale aj postrehy, ktoré ma nenapadli, tak vám ponúkam rovno ten.
In short, it seems to me that Pine did absolutely everything she could reasonably do to prevent the baby from interfering with her class. To ask more of her than that is unreasonable. What we should do, instead, is realize that it’s not a big deal to have to be in the same room as a baby once in a while. It might not be ideal. If the baby screams or cries, that’s annoying. But we’re grown-ups (or at least, we’re college students learning to become grown-ups). We should be able to deal with it graciously and then forget about it. That’s what life is like in a society in which women – even mothers with babies — are equal members of society. That’s what life is like in a society which accepts that babies are part of life.
86-ročná gymnastka
pre koho má zmysel predlžovať povinnú koncipientskú prax? (video, od Mirečka)
príbeh v dvadsiatich dvoch obrázkoch
1000 rokov vojny v piatich minútach
fotografická súťaž National Geographic-u 2012
Ježišova manželka alebo Dan Brown loboval?
Male Scientist Balancing Act - začala som čítať s nádejou, ale tá sa rozplynula hneď pri prvom odstavci… Idú zisťovať, ako ženy v akadémii hľadajú rovnováhu medzi kariérou a rodinou. Ako? Opýtajú sa mužov.
Autor Iva, September 2, 2012
Autor Iva, August 26, 2012 femtofotografie:
vzdelanie pre všetkých:
ešte raz k Olypiáde – prečo nie sú víťazstvá Jima Thorpa stále uznané
On the second day, Thorpe’s shoes were missing. Warner hastily put together a mismatched pair in time for the high jump, which Thorpe won. Later that afternoon came one of his favorite events, the 110-meter hurdles. Thorpe blistered the track in 15.6 seconds, again quicker than Bob Mathias would run it in ’48.
On the final day of competition, Thorpe placed third and fourth in the events in which he was most inexperienced, the pole vault and javelin. Then came the very last event, the 1,500-meter run. The metric mile was a leg-burning monster that came after nine other events over two days. And he was still in mismatched shoes.
Thorpe left cinders in the faces of his competitors. He ran it in 4 minutes 40.1 seconds. Faster than anyone in 1948. Faster than anyone in 1952. Faster than anyone in 1960—when he would have beaten Rafer Johnson by nine seconds. No Olympic decathlete, in fact, could beat Thorpe’s time until 1972. As Neely Tucker of the Washington Post pointed out, even today’s reigning gold medalist in the decathlon, Bryan Clay, would beat Thorpe by only a second.
včera vo veku 82 rokov zomrel Neil Armstrong, prvý človek, ktorý chodil po Mesiaci; článok o pristátí, ktorý 21. júla 1969 priniesli New York Times
každá žena by mala cestovať sama
At the age of 27, I got in my aquamarine Honda and drove 26,000 miles around the country for five months by myself. It was foolish and lonely and 10 years later, I still think it might be the best thing I’ve ever done. I wore clothes till they were filthy and lived on baked beans and peanut butter, but the luxury of that time is unimaginable to me now, because I woke up every morning with no one’s agenda but my own. What did I want to see today? Where did I want to go?
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There is a poignant scene near the end of “Wild.” Cheryl Strayed’s mother is close to death, and she tells her daughter, “I never got to be in the driver’s seat of my own life … I always did what someone else wanted me to do. I’ve always been someone else’s daughter or mother or wife. I’ve never just been me.” God, that moment cut me. Boyfriends are nice, and careers are important, but I think this is all I’ve ever been after: to just be me.
Autor Iva, August 5, 2012 Najprv z júna z Mišovej služobnej cesty do Nemecka:
Braunschweig
Hamburg
Autostadt Wolfsburg

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