Why We Can't Have Nice Things with Meredith Nash
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English - April 11, 2021 22:57 - 27 minutesTechnology Education Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Less than one third of the STEMM workforce in Australia are women. Meredith Nash researches why our institutions are so bad at fixing this, and how we ended up both unfortunate bind of “male allies” - both part of the problem and the solution.
We also give a eulogy as the world mourns the loss of one of its most important figureheads: Yahoo Answers.
Stuff we dig:
This scathing essay on NFT’s by Vicky Osterwell for RealLife
Researchers speaking out against censorship in academic journals
What exactly is Trump doing at Mar-a-Lago all day? from Trashberg
We’re pretty worried about Russia's devastatingly simple method of blocking Twitter
Plus this solid post (we really don’t like novelty DNA testing and did an ep last year about why)
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