Sexism is a major problem in education around sciences, technology and engineering. The first step in addressing this problem is awareness.
A new study suggests many men deny that sexism is a problem in STEM fields. A study in Psychology of Women Quarterly says that that among 423 respondents in an online forum, men were more likely to suggest sexism isn’t a problem even when confronted with evidence it is.
Wow, men are …
At gay bathhouses in the Bay Area, monitors pop in on the “playroom” irregularly — “every 20 minutes, every 40 minutes, every hour,” one manager says, trying to make sure patrons are having sex safely.
“You put the condom on or get the hell out,” a monitor at one such club said, upon discovering a couple violating the rules.
William Woods and his colleagues talked to these bathhouse monitors, as well as …
Recently we have learned that 15 patients in New England were exposed to a rare infection called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) when neurosurgical instruments contaminated with the infection were used in their care. Each had undergone a brain or spinal surgery in early 2013, and now their future was uncertain.
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is caused by an infectious agent called a prion — as is “mad cow disease.” Originally discovered in the brain-eating Fore cannibals of Papua New …
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