Ex Cathedra

You know those tourists who have somebody take a picture of them standing next to the Statue of Liberty? NASA is exactly like that. The Greenbelt: Nova: So proud of us — more pictures there, including the picture of us.

Apropos nothing, I offer the following - shamelessly stolen from another blog.
Here is where I found it. Attributed to one Leslie Stephen a name that, I’m afraid, means nothing to me.
He shows us certain facts as they appear to him. If we are so constituted as to be unable to see what he sees, [...]

In the two weeks leading up to the Indiana primary, a Democratic strategist familiar with the Obama campaign said aides are likely to turn to the controversies of Bill Clinton’s White House years — Hillary Clinton’s trading cattle futures, Whitewater and possibly impeachment. “Everyone knows the history of the Clintons,” the strategist said. - [...]

In an earlier exchange on the old blog Tim took great exception with an author I’d cited who claimed that even in the hallowed halls of science, gender bias against women was a a problem today and may have gotten worse over the decades.
I found an MIT study that Tim landed [...]