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[spork]

And on the subject of low quality research, I just showed my wife two articles by Notable Name In My Field, published 13 years apart.  Same data, same analysis; different title and introduction and moderately revised prose.  At least the guy put a Lesser Figure on each article as co-author.

[oldfullprof]

Although I wasn't actually there, I'm very interested in the 50s and 60s

What do you want to know?

What was up with all those staid, uptight-looking sans serif fonts and typefaces?

Do I look Swiss to you? - DvF

You'd look Swiss if you were trying to collapse the known universe into the size of a thimble by jacking around with that supercollider up in Western Switzerland.  Maybe we won't notice as we become quantum soup.

Hey, did you know that they thought that there was a good chance that the first A-Bomb would set the earth's atmosphere on fire (Alamogordo)?  Of course, they set it off anyway.

[renji]

It doesn't bother you that the Science Channel (and to a lesser extent the Discovery Channel) are explicitly targeted at men, according to their own corporate web site?

http://corporate.discovery.com/brands/us/science-channel/

Governments and corporations around the world spend oodles of money attempting to increase the number of women in the sciences. This year alone, the NSF will give away millions.

But, in many fields,  there remains a huge gap.

I recently read that only 18% of US computer science graduates are female.

Given that, the science channel is simply reiterating the situation on the ground.