Today the New York Times reported that less than 15% of Wikipedia’s 100,000+ contributors are women. That’s a sobering thought when you consider that a Wikipedia article is usually in the top three hits when you google anything. It’s even more sobering when you consider the fact that, as a result of this bias, Wikipedia [...]
All posts for the month January, 2011
Hey gals, let’s all go edit Wikipedia!
Posted by Mo on January 31, 2011
http://moander.wordpress.com/2011/01/31/hey-gals-lets-all-go-edit-wikipedia/
Vent? You want me to VENT???
Most of the daily prompts have been stupid not really my thing, but this one: “What’s going on in your life right now that’s driving you nuts?” — oh ho, the timing could not be more perfect because I have a great big grievance welling up inside me. Here goes. I am fucking sick and [...]
Posted by Mo on January 30, 2011
http://moander.wordpress.com/2011/01/30/vent-you-want-me-to-vent/
A guilty pleasure
Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains One of Medicine’s Greatest Mysteries, by Molly Caldwell Crosby. This is a book about a truly hideous disease: epidemic encephalitis. It’s described in excruciating, gruesome detail. The symptoms, the desperate victims and their families, the heroic doctors working round the clock trying to discover its cause and cure… it’s [...]
Posted by Mo on January 29, 2011
http://moander.wordpress.com/2011/01/29/a-guilty-pleasure/
Not random, but sort of amusing
Well here it is, another day, another blank wordpress screen. What to write, what to write… I was thinking of posting some random facts about myself, as many bloggers like to do when inspiration runs dry. However, I have a problem with the idea of random. If I were to post some truly “random” facts [...]
Posted by Mo on January 28, 2011
http://moander.wordpress.com/2011/01/28/not-random-but-sort-of-amusing/
Smilla: first impressions
Well, four people voted on my poll and two of them voted for Smilla’s Sense of Snow, so that’s what I’m reading now. The poll was sort of silly, since I actually own all of these books and I can read them any time I want. But it was a fun excuse to try out [...]
Posted by Mo on January 27, 2011
http://moander.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/smilla-first-impressions/
Normally I love
to click on the “New Post” link. The site of a blank edit screen just waiting for my blather gives me quite an adrenaline rush. But tonight? Tonight I have a bit of a headache and I’ve been sort of sad today, too, thinking about the fact that it is Jacqueline du Pré’s birthday. She [...]
Posted by Mo on January 26, 2011
http://moander.wordpress.com/2011/01/26/normally-i-love/
Yes, it really does take a village!
An article called “Breast-Feeding: It Takes a Village to Help Moms Succeed” popped up on my facebook page like ten times today. I am a bit of a birth junky, see, and quite a few of my cronies are doulas, midwives, lactation consultants, and other assorted earthy crunchy types. And they were all sharing this [...]
Posted by Mo on January 25, 2011
http://moander.wordpress.com/2011/01/25/yes-it-really-does-take-a-village/
Playing games
I love games! Word games, board games, card games, role-playing games, guessing games: I love them all. And I have noticed lately that not only are games fun, but they can also be a vehicle for self-discovery. Surprising self-discovery. We’ve been playing Settlers of Catan quite a lot lately. In case you’re not familiar, it’s [...]
Posted by Mo on January 24, 2011
http://moander.wordpress.com/2011/01/24/playing-games/
Papillons
If I had to pick just one piece of classical music to listen to over and over again for the rest of my life it would probably be Papillons by Robert Schumann. I first got to know it when I was a teenager and my sister was learning to play it. Which means that I [...]
Posted by Mo on January 23, 2011
http://moander.wordpress.com/2011/01/23/papillons/
Ridin’ that train, high on hypnagogic imagery
When I was fresh out of college I used to ride a commuter train several times a week, 30 minutes each way. I was always exhausted during that phase of my life, and after a while I figured out how I could bring on a sort of dream-like state, which my father the psych professor [...]
Posted by Mo on January 22, 2011
http://moander.wordpress.com/2011/01/22/ridin-that-train-high-on-hypnagogic-imagery/
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On my nightstand
