For the monthly ChicagoNow Blogapalooza bloggers are given a topic to write about at 9 PM and publish a related post at 10 PM. Tonight's challenge was "Write about fear, or lack thereof, and the role it has played in any aspect of your life." Autonomy has been fairly constant in my life well before … Continue reading How I got beyond my fear of losing control
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A friend made a comment about members of a certain women's Olympic hockey team (no spoilers) looking pretty sad after losing their final game at Sochi, which meant winning the silver medal. I was reminded of research I heard about two years ago during the Summer Olympics that said bronze medal winners are happier than … Continue reading Olympics: Bronze medal winners are happier than silver medal winners
Girls are underrepresented in STEM fields, but how can we get more girls interested in science, technology, engineering, and math? To date many STEM education initiatives have taken the sex ed approach. Girls are isolated from the boys and given their own, gender-specific, introduction to coding, building, and problem solving. The intentions are good, but … Continue reading STEM education for girls: Too little, too late, too pink
Every year there seems to be at least one controversial Super Bowl ad. This year the commercial getting the most attention is a Coca Cola ad in which "America the Beautiful" (which is NOT the National Anthem BTW) is sung in a variety of languages. However, people from Pittsburgh recognize another Super Bowl ad as controversial: the … Continue reading Another controversial Super Bowl ad: Heinz Ketchup
This has bothered me for a long time (decades), so it's about time I blogged it out. First, SPOILER ALERT! This has to do with a detail near the end of the 1987 film Dirty Dancing starring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey. If you don't know how that movie ends and don't want to know … Continue reading Dirty Dancing: 3 reasons everybody should put Baby in the corner
Kim Z. Dale 