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August 8, 2008

Sixty-three years ago this week, the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The enormity of the event, the inhuman scale of both this power and its consequences, is nearly impossible to communicate. How can one understand the power of a thousand suns unleashed upon whole cities? It became one of the defining stories for generations […]

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Shelved with: Continuing Stories|| Mind & Society|| The Reading Life|| Science & Technology
Tagged With: Hiroshima, Books, Ellen Klages, Engineering, Girls, History, Holidays, Keiji Nakazawa, Los Alamos, Math, Nagasaki, Reviews, Stories, Trinity, War & Peace
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Male and Female: Equal After All

August 2, 2008

Cecilia Ford’s investigations into the power of conversation for her new book, Women Speaking Up: Getting and Using Turns in Workplace Meetings, are reviewed here: Researcher finds that women are speaking up; and Janet Hyde, author of Half the Human Experience, has published research that finds no gender differences in math performance.

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Shelved with: Science & Technology|| Hearts & Minds|| Mind & Society|| The Book of Nature|| Mathematics
Tagged With: Stereotypes, Testing, Science, Boys, Cecilia Ford, Conversation, Gender, Girls, Janet Hyde, Math, Power
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She Could Be President of the United States of America

July 5, 2008

Review of Catherine Thimmesh and Douglas B. Jones’s Madam President: The Extraordinary, True (and Evolving) Story of Women in Politics.

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Shelved with: The Reading Life|| Mind & Society
Tagged With: Biography, Careers, Gender, Girls, Politics, Presidents, Reviews
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