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Greetings, E.T. (Please Don’t Murder Us.) The anti-METI movement is predicated on a grim statistical likelihood: If we do ever manage to make contact with another intelligent life-form, then almost by definition, our new pen pals will be far more advanced than we are. The best way to understand this is to consider, on a percentage basis, just how young…

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Wonder women

Wonder Women od Sam Maggs  Táto kniha je skôr pre Kiku, keď raz začne poriadne čítať po anglicky, ale ja som si ju celkom s radosťou preletela. Sú to kid-friendly krátke životopisy 25 žien (plus spomína zhruba 25 ďalších), ktoré boli vedkyne, lekárky, špiónky, vynálezkyne a cestovateľky. Zaujímavé na tom je, že som z nich poznala len dve a Marie…

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A love story – úžasné When we encounter a mother doing too many things perfectly, smiling as if it were all so easy, so natural, we should feel a civic responsibility to slap her hard across the face and scream the word “Stop!” so many times that the woman begins to chant or whimper the word along with us. Once…

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our mothers as we never saw them The old photos of her are even more compelling than the stories because they’re a historical record, carrying the weight of fact, even if the truth there is slippery: the trick of an image, and so much left outside the frame. These photos serve as a visual accompaniment to the myths. Because any…

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výborné video delenia buniek (time lapse video of the cells in a tadpole egg dividing over a period of 33 hours) woman facts Once women who lived unconventional lives were seized as witches and burned. Now people just say to them, “You look tired.” – – – Large numbers of women can be caught by baiting a trap with a…

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What It’s Like to Be Rihanna’s Personal Chef So here’s a little story Anyway I was getting sick of his shit when I noticed something. Thanks to our shared inbox, I’d been signing all communications as “Nicole” ‘London Bridge is down’: the secret plan for the days after the Queen’s death “The King’s life is moving peacefully towards its close,”…

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsjTVGIw4z8 The Goddesses of Venus: a topographic map Large craters are named after famous women and I was happy to see a lot of names I recognised: Beatrix Potter, Rachel Carson, Virginia Woolf… Keby na Zemi žilo iba 100 ľudí The best medical science images of the year Emma Watson hides feminist books for International Women’s Day Why it’s so…

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Včera som so študentami na fakulte riešila Sendvič. Bolo dobre, pozrite úlohy.  Women Do Like to Compete — Against Themselves Maybe females don’t like playing zero sum games… How do we know that the reason is ‘lack of confidence’? Maybe women are less likely to see winning as a desirable goal. They might prefer to be partners instead of competitors. But…

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U.N. Picks Powerful Feminist (Wonder Woman) for Visible Job (Mascot) The United Nations just rejected seven female candidates vying to lead the global organization. Now, to promote women and girls, it is picking a cartoon character as its mascot: Wonder Woman. really bad chess just like chess, but with totally random pieces. Try 8 Knights, 4 Bishops, and 3 pawns The Nobel Prize…

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Zaklínač

Včera pri rozjímaní o nebezpečných ženách mi došlo, že som vlastne toto leto čítala jednu feminist-friedly fantasy ságu od poľského autora Andrzeja Sapkowského: Zaklínač III. – Krev elfu Zaklínač IV. – Čas opovržení Zaklínač V. – Křest ohněm Zaklínač VI. – Věž vlaštovky Zaklínač VII. – Paní jezera Áno, naozaj to začína treťou knihou. Prvé dve sú knihy poviedok o…

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