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‘Not Rescuing’ Our Kids Shouldn’t Mean Letting Them Flounder That is not an unreasonable approach to shepherding your children into the pasture of responsibility, and we’ve certainly practiced various forms of it over the years with our own children. No, you can’t spend our money on Cheez-Its from the school vending machine because you left your peanut-butter rice cake at…
ďalej...druhý ročník projektu môjho bratranca: Milý Ježiško – v Čechách sa minulý rok podarilo splniť všetky detské priania, tak uvidíme, či sa to tento rok podarí aj na Slovensku Mrd… (pardon) Miluji tě, mé VUT O měsíc později mi Kuba volal, že jako všechno v pohodě, že už je to vyjednané, akorát taková drobnost, že se děkanovi nelíbí, že mám na svých stránkách…
ďalej...My feminist marriage: a father’s perspective What really changed everything for me was having children. When we decided to become parents, we agreed that we’d love a parent to stay home with the kids while they were little. And it quickly became obvious that that parent should be me. I worked as a freelancer, so taking a few years off…
ďalej...What of you just hate making dinner? 🙂 (mne tie večere až tak nevadia, ale za prečítanie to stálo) And worst of all, as the mother-cookbooks make painfully clear, the daily work of feeding children doesn’t fall to the sages. Neither does it, notably, fall to the dads, whom the cookbooks commend for having signature dishes or being grill-masters, but not…
ďalej...Why Netflix never implemented the algorithm that won the Netflix $1 Million challenge The ‘Averageness Hypothesis’ of attractiveness (a “priemerná” žena v 41 krajinách sveta) Příběh porodní asistentky: Nemocnice mi brání poskytovat zdravou péči Je mi do pláče. Možná to byla má poslední klientka v této porodnici. Možná mě vyrazí, jak o tom mluví už dlouho. Už jsem si dovolila prostě…
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zopár videí z našich simulácií na pobavenie: dobrý rozhovor s Ivetou Lazorovou Are search queries becoming even more unique? Statistics from Google 20% of searches each day are new or haven’t been completed in the last 6 months what color is the sun? This may sound like a trivial question, but what color is the Sun? Really — I realize…
ďalej...fotky z Burning man… je to dosť ťažko popísateľná týždenná akcia v Nevadskej púšti novel writing month – tento rok to nepôjde, možno ten budúci phdcomics – statistics a data scientist is … Data science is statistics on a Mac. A data scientist is someone who is better at statistics than any software engineer and better at software engineering than any…
ďalej...kyvadlá (od Milana): Why the U.S. chills its eggs and most of the world doesn’t – ja som sa s tým prvýkrát stretla na jednej farme práve v USA (v Colorade). Vojdem do špajze a tam tri kýble vajec. Po pár opatrných otázkach som sa dozvedela, že kým sa nezačnú chladiť, tak sú (relatívne dlho) ok aj bez chladničky… The Corrs…
ďalej...the day of the condom The Effects of Menstruation on Attitudes Towards Women Participants interacted with a female confederate who ostensibly accidentally dropped either a tampon or hair clip out of her handbag. Dropping the tampon led to lower evaluations of the confederate’s competence, decreased liking for her, and a marginal tendency to avoid sitting close to her. Relational Self…
ďalej...Yes, men are better writers – toto by som sem najradšej skopírovala celé… takže, ak si otvoríte len jednu z týchto liniek, nech je to táto Recently, I received an email from a literary publication asking me to comment on why ‘women are underrepresented in major publications’. Since I’m a single mother, working six days a week, and I wasn’t going…
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