The Globe and Mail had a piece on the new Canadian Citizenship Guide, including a quote by Historian Margaret Conrad, who had this to say a-boot it: “It’s kind of like a throwback to the 1950s. It’s a tough, manly country with military and sports heroes that are all men.” I thought to myself, that […]
William Lyon Mackenzie King has always kinda been my secret favourite Prime Minister. This is due 100% to my awesome high school history teacher who told us all sorts of crazy stories about him. He was absolutely batty and I loved it. So today when I was bouncing down a wikipedia rabbit hole through the […]
Budgie imprisons kitten. Humanitarian Kittarian Crisis.
The Samoyed dog takes its name from the Samoyedic peoples of Siberia. An alternate name for the breed, especially in Europe, is Bjelkier. These nomadic reindeer herders bred the fluffy, white, smiling dogs to help with the herding, to pull sleds when they moved, and to keep their owners warm at night by sleeping on […]
First of all… Do you know how effing depressing this is for a wannabe academic? TENURED PROFS? Making an average of $86,000 per year? Looks like I’m taking up football. Second of all… Hmm… A Facebook for academics. Kind of like… the old facebook?
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FemaleScienceProfessor is commenting on a really depressing article by yet another sexist academic on the apparently unfair behaviour of Title IX and other diversity mandates in the States. It is a trend that is starting to really piss me off. First Larry Summers, then John Tierney, and now Peter Wood are flying the it’s-not-discrimination,-women-are-weaker-and-that’s-why-they-aren’t-in-our-fields banner. […]
The CBC just debuted a set of red panda twins! They are so adorable. Just in case you missed them, here are BY FAR the best red panda clips on the Internet.
