I mentioned TGs in a previous post. To refresh your memory, they are the school of computer science’s big departmental parties (actually thrown by the student organization, Dec/5). The name has been generalized to any party thrown in the department. Today’s was the Smiley TG, celebrating the birthday of the smiley, invented by Scott Fahlman, [...]
Archive for 21 September 2007
Smiley TG
Posted: 21 September 2007 in UncategorizedTags: cmu, emoticons, lti, picnic, smiley, swag, tg
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The hand of Franklin reaching
Posted: 21 September 2007 in UncategorizedTags: climate change, global warming, ice, north pole, northwest passage, polar ice, stan rogers, steampunk
Well, the Northwest Passage is opening up as the northern polar ice cap melts away to oblivion (photo credits ESA). The Northwest Passage is the yellow line. All the trouble so many people went through back in the 19th Century and earlier to find a way through. So many dead. All they had to do [...]
Women read more than men?
Posted: 21 September 2007 in UncategorizedTags: battle of the sexes, biology, brain, brizendine, computer science, controversy, english, gender, gender bias, language, larry summers, men vs women, society
I came across a story on NPR today about why women read more than men. They quote from Louann Brizendine who wrote the book The Female Brain. The issue of gender differences and the brain always starts fights. Men have larger brains and more gray matter, which handles information processing. Women have more white matter [...]
