May 2013
14 posts
Elizabeth Smart: Abstinence Education Teaches Rape... →
fierysprite:
“Elizabeth Smart became a household name after she was kidnapped from her home in Salt Lake City, UT at the age of 14 and held in captivity for nine months. She was forced into a polygamous marriage, tethered to a metal cable, and raped daily until she was rescued from her captors nine months later. Smart was recovered while she and her kidnappers were walking down a suburban...
April 2013
15 posts
“I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes...”
– Mary Shelley, Frankenstein. (via riverran)
#mary shelley #this quote though #it’s all kinds of wonderful #hey remember that time one asswipe was like you have 30 seconds to name something invented by a woman… #…and Mary was like SCIENCE FICTION MOTHERFUCKERS #that was awesome #thanks Mary Shelley...
“The works of women are symbolical.
We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our...”
– Aurora Leigh
by Elizabeth Barratt Browning 1857
Project Gutenberg (via publicdomainthing)
“Men still have trouble recognizing that a woman can be complex, can have...”
– Natalie Dormer, discussing the difficulty of giving an accurate portrayal of Anne Boleyn on The Tudors (x)
(via andimprouvaire)
Sophie Germain
scienceladies:
The solving of Fermat’s Last Theorem is one of the most famous stories in mathematics, a tale of obsession and creativity and intrigue. The personal struggles involved in the theorem are captivating and often heroic. Sophie Germain was a French mathematician who, arguably, did more to solve the theorem under more difficult conditions than anyone before her.
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March 2013
17 posts
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FIVE-YEAR-OLD DISCOVERS DINOSAUR, NAMES IT AFTER... →
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On a fossil-hunting trip with her family, five-year-old Daisy Morris found the remains of a previously undiscovered dinosaur, which is now named Vertidraco daisymorrisae. The new dino is not only a previously unknown species, but an unknown genus, making Daisy’s find a really big deal. It’s a pterosaur — a winged flying dino — about the size of a crow, which lived 115 million...
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February 2013
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