Recent links I liked:
How BBC North builds links with communities across the region - Intrepid colonial explorers at the BBC bring patronising twaddle
On Educating Women in the Sciences, Nature Magazine, 1871 Reminds me of that quote from Alfred North Whitehead: When I was in Cambridge ... the question came up whether to award degrees to women. On the one side were men who worked in laboratories, & on the other, including physicians, those who worked with human beings. Almost to a man, those in favour of granting degrees to women were the people who dealt with lifeless matter, while those who dealt with women as living creatures were opposed
Despite that, by 1871 Cambridge was affording a scientific education to some girls - full text of the article in Nature can be found at
Mobile security: Chilly with a chance of hacking Something else to worry about in an insecure world
Brits prefer online crosswords to sex A gloriously loony interpretation of survey results.
