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Women are majority of STEM grad students and they earn a majority of STEM bachelor's degrees - and have since 2004 

Whoever defines the categories defines who is a bigot, who is a victim, who is an oppressor, with measures like this.

From the article : "By several measures, there really is no STEM gender gap in higher education. There are now more women than men earning STEM bachelor's degrees and there are more women than men enrolled in STEM graduate programs for master's and doctoral degrees.

... according to several measures, women are actually slightly over-represented in STEM graduate programs and earn a majority of STEM college degrees. A lot depends on how we define “Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM)” and that definition is fairly fluid and subject to various interpretations. "

aei.org/publication/gender-gap

What would we toot about if we focused on what really matters, rather than what's currently in the sensationalized news. (CW for length) 

Thinking Fast and Slow speaks to the Availability Heuristic - we care more about issues that are presented to us and are available in recent memory even if they're objectively less important than other issues we know about but aren't as readily available to our thinking. The press we expose ourselves to determines what we think is important.

I didn't get all the way through Thinking Fast and Slow before I had to returned it to the library, but it's fascinating and I look forward to finishing it - and likely re-reading it.

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The Chinese government would be able to block certain websites and search terms — a move that, according to at least nine workers at Google, is tantamount to enabling "state surveillance."
n.pr/2Rh03qI

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I am irritated how all GTD and bullet journal example lifestyles are of people who do nothing but run & meditate in apparently trivial-to-find scenic landscapes!

TBF David Allen is pretty accurate in his books about life as a battle against info, but those productivity blogs >:(

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As Catholic-affiliated health care expands, one lawyer says, doctors increasingly encounter morality clauses that prohibit them from performing abortions.
n.pr/2RmutaQ

@NPR this is excellent news, like when left coast tech companies choose to voluntarily sponsor climate stuff or fund their local failing public schools or homeless needs in their failing cities.

Even the big government left can see that it doesn't require federal or global policy to make a change, we all can at the individual, community, corporate and local government levels.

Certainly the only people upset about tear gas at the border are those who were outraged when it was used monthly under Obama, as this is just a continuation of the Obama policy. Link and excerpts from source CW for length 

Obama administration used tear gas at border once a month

The same tear gas agent that the Trump administration is taking heat for deploying against a border mob this weekend is actually used fairly frequently — including more than once a month during some years under President Obama, according to Homeland Security data.

“The facts are, the policy written under President Obama allows us to use tear gas to disperse a crowd that was very dangerous,” he told the network.

m.washingtontimes.com/news/201

So yet again we have outrage at Trump for doing what Obama did. I don't know that you're seeing things clearly if things are always okay for "us" to do but bad for "them" to do.

Love that there's here. I'm sure they contrasted the previous presidents praise for Iran against his attacks against the courts and police. Where was that...will report back when I find that unbiased reporting...

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Dear everyone.

The world is not that dangerous. Each decade has seen more and more peace come to more people than ever in history.

This is not opinion. This is fact. People are living longer. People are dying less.

The news dramatizes danger in order to sell you their products. Never forget this.

There are millions upon millions of kind people all over the world. Some of them live near you, most don't. It helps to keep this in mind.

We were told by the left that not only is this not a problem, but she could even set up a personal server, kept in a bathroom in Denver, and send not only messages, but classified information, then wipe the server when it came into question.

How is this newsworthy?

So relieved. The money, power, and influence were obviously not enough. Finally they gave awards to each other on TV and got their due.

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Achieving anything in life nowadays is 5% talent, 5% hard work and 90% not being distracted by the Internet.

I don't recall @NPR dismissing protestors where the protest agrees with their bias because of what fraction of the population is actively present at a protest. But as there is and no I'm looking forward to it.

Strangely Trump got the media to say : it's because McRaven isn't a Clinton fan that he's credible.

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Saying "Men Aren't Women" on Twitter Now Classified as 'Hateful Conduct'

Twitter is now classifying feminist speech that claims men are not women as "hateful conduct" and they are removing it and banning the users.

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/saying-men-arent-women-on-twitter-now-classified-as-hateful-conduct/
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"Give a man a match he will be warm for a minute, light a man on fire he will be warm for the rest of his life" -- The Osiris Child

Just watched Instant Family. Awesome, accurate, well cast, really great.

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