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Being a woman in my chosen profession, that’s hasn’t posed any particular challenges. But some activities associated with just “being a woman” have sometimes proved to be a bit beyond me. A few things I have done only a handful

Photo © Ben Osborne. After having watched many hours of nature shows, seemingly most of them narrated by Sir David Attenborough, I find myself haunted not by their incredible natural beauty, but by scenes whose tragedy was accentuated by Attenborough’s

This is just a hypothesis: gender differences in risk taking contribute to differences in participation in science and engineering disciplines. I have no data, just a wish to speculate from personal experience. Individual tasks in math, science and engineering are

Why is music so preoccupied with romance? Is romance the one thing all of us, including musicians, have experience with?

source: Image Some of my fondest memories contain elements of freedom, companionship and adventure: driving on lonely roads in CA, NV, and UT, wandering and philosophizing in the German countryside until dawn  with fellow YfU students, exploring the tunnels or

It has been about 25 years since I’ve had full use of my middle finger. What is wrong with it? Well, despite having had a bit of minor surgery on it, there is actually nothing physically wrong with it. The

Besides a series of thought provoking talks at #norditanwk also heard a Swede challenge a Finn to say in Swedish: “Ö, ö, hö ö; hö ö mö”

That extra “p” in “upp” is almost like a little happy exclamation mark. Same with “Öppen”. Why can’t English have them too?

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As I listen to Laszlo Barabasi present some new work on predicting social networks from co-location data, I hear that the “Adamic/Adar coefficient” can predict new edges well based on social network data alone. It’s remarkable that it has held