When people talk about "women in tech" they usually mean female engineers or women who have risen to positions of executive leadership, but there are a lot of women in tech who are neither of those things. Analysts and project managers are to "women in tech" what stay at home moms are to the general feminist … Continue reading Not engineers or executives: The other women in tech
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"Good fences make good neighbors." That quote from the Robert Frost poem "Mending Wall" is often used to express the way people use fences to create a barrier between them and their neighbors. I've found, however, that sometimes fences can bring neighbors together. When we moved into our house there was a short, rusty, chain … Continue reading Good neighbors make good fences
We didn't cure cancer. We fed it. At the first signs of a tumor we started implanted cells that had been genetically engineered to be easier and more desirable than human organs for the spread of cancer cells. Once the cancer spreads to the new cells it ignores the native ones. The original idea was that … Continue reading We didn’t cure cancer. We fed it.
Some parents actively post pictures of their children online on blogs, social media, and other websites. Other parents limit online sharing of their children's photos to limited groups and only post pictures publicly if you can't see the child's face. There are even some parents who never post their children's pictures online even to share them … Continue reading Do you post pictures of your children online?
On June 5, you may see splash screens on web sites and posts on social media about telling you to "Reset the Net." Those Reset the Net messages are to encourage website administrators, app developers, and all Internet users to take steps to prevent NSA mass surveillance. The date June 5, 2014 was selected because … Continue reading Reset the Net: How you can fight NSA mass surveillance
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