It’s that time of year again! Time for this internet bottom-feeder to aggregate all the science and technology lists I can find and put them into one post for you to read. It’s been a year, so here it is—in list form!
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It’s Christmas Eve, so I’m not doing a real news roundup today. Instead, here’s some fun photos from SpaceX.
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Sometimes, being a feminist blogger feels like living through Groundhog Day. Only instead of learning how to play the piano or stalking a woman, you’re having the same arguments over, and over, and over again. This week’s argument on repeat? Being criticized for being a woman is different from being criticized while being a woman. I have literally written about this four times already.
But now I get to write about it again, because Susan Collins.
When I was in high school, I took economics and political science. Those classes taught me that people behave in a logical fashion according to their wants and needs, and that they choose candidates whose values and opinions most closely resemble their own. Then I took those same classes in college and learned “lolololol the f*** they do.”
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This week we’ve got the bad news from the FCC, a first in our search for new planets, and a tiny green lining on the trash-fire budget that spares green energy incentives. It’s the science and technology roundup for Sunday, December 17, 2017.
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This week we’ve got stories about SpaceX, a new AI that builds its own little AIs, and the vote this week that’s going to FUBAR the internet because Ajit Pai is a terrible human being. It’s the sci-tech roundup for Sunday, December 10, 2017.
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[Content warning: Sexual assault: Brock Turner case. Again. I was totally hoping to talk about something more pleasant this week, and then this dumbass had to go and get in the paper yet again. If talking about sexual assault is (understandably) not something you wanna do with your Friday then please join me next week where I will, I hope, be getting to talk about something less awful.]
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Today we’ve got the new on our first visitor from another solar system, an update on how things are going for Voyager 1 (40 years on), and a bet in Australia that Elon Musk just won. It’s the news roundup for Sunday, December 3, 2017.
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[Content warning: Cyntoia Brown. This article discusses pretty graphic sexual and physical abuse. If that is (understandably) not your cup of tea, rejoin me next week when I’ll hopefully be talking about something more pleasant.]
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