June 2013
Top Gear Africa Special Deleted Scenes
Hammond takes the Rwandan driving test
Brad Pitt, George Clooney and Bradley Cooper in the morning
The wildlife wisdom of Sir Richard Hammondborough
Jeremy and James shopping in Jezza
Some of the traffic in Kampala that you never saw
Props to justjezza for already posting a lot of these!
The only one missing is the science at the equator one because Youtube decided that would be the one to block due to copyright issues. You can watch it here if you haven’t seen it.
Enjoy! :)
“In one recent study, more than 100 university psychologists were asked to rate the CVs of Dr. Karen Miller or Dr. Brian Miller, fictitious applicants for an academic tenure-track job. The CVs were identical, apart from the name. Yet strangely, the male Dr. Miller was perceived (by both male and female reviewers) to have better research, teaching, and service experience than the luckless female Dr. Miller. Overall, about three-quarters of the psychologists thought that Dr. Brian was hirable, while only just under half had the same confidence in Dr. Karen. The same researchers also sent out applications for the position of tenured professor, again identical but for the male and female name at the top. This time, the application was so strong that most of the raters thought that tenure was deserved, regardless of sex. However, the endorsement of Karen’s application was four times more likely to be accompanied by cautionary caveats scrawled in the margins of the questionnaire: such as, ‘I would need to see evidence that she had gotten these grants and publications on her own’ and ‘We would have to see her job talk.’”
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Cordelia Fine, Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference (via cockchomp)
THIS IS REALLY FUCKING IMPORTANT AND INCREDIBLE
(via beloquacious)
Oh hey, just in case you think academia is a haven of progressivism and open-mindedness. Women also have a much harder time obtaining tenure if they are trying to raise a family, while men who have children are more likely to be awarded it.
When I was in graduate school, I attended a “Junior Women Scholars and the Profession’-type mini conference, at which one of the senior scholars told us that, if we wanted to have kids, it was better to do it while we were finishing our degrees. Because then you could prove you were able to handle a baby + research and it would be better to take a semester off as a grad student than a semester off as junior faculty.
All of this is despite the fact that, in the US, hiring committees are not legally allowed to take into account your family status. They aren’t even allowed to ask if you’re married, if you have kids, or what your plans are for kids in the future. It usually comes up somewhat awkwardly during campus visits, where they have to disclose benefits and how the tenure process works.
Like most of the rest of the US, universities and colleges tend to lag woefully behind the rest of the world in offering women choices other than “rock” or “hard place,” and also do not accord men time off for paternity leave, thus ensuring that academic women have to shoulder the weight of those choices. So yay, institutionalized sexism!
(via theletteraesc)
When people tell me I’m doing too much at uni, they should really know shit like this.
(via najalater)
Disney Princesses In Accurate Period Costume.
SLEEPING BEAUTY (1485).
POCAHONTAS (17TH CENTURY POWAHTAN).
CINDERELLA (MID 1860’S)
JASMINE (PRE-ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST)
SNOW WHITE (16TH CENTURY GERMANY).
ARIEL (1890’S)
BELLE (1770’S FRENCH COURT FASHION).
CLARIE HUMMEL
Megara (Ancient Greece)
Mulan (Ancient China)
Tiana (1920’s)
Rapunzel (18th Century)
I’ve reblogged this 6 times probably
This is amazing.
the protestant reformation started because martin luther tagged his 95 hate posts
no but women are so badass okay
because there will inevitably come a point in every woman’s life where she wakes up in a pool of her own blood and her reaction will be dammit now i have to do laundry
that is some suave superhero shit and you won’t ever be able to convince me otherwise
I WOULD WALK FIVE HUNDRED MILES
AND I WOULD WALK FIVE HUNDRED MORE
JUST TO BE THE MAN WHO WALKED A THOUSAND MILES
TO GET WILL GRAHAM SOME PROPER FUCKING MEDICAL CARE
my favorite thing about helena bonham carter is that she literally has only two modes
gothic english beauty
and insane homeless woman
i wish someone looked at me the way i look at pizza
oh but they do
actual proof that Hannibal Lecter cares about Will’s well-being
Imagine that you’re awkwardly sitting there at a formal dance when suddenly you see a hand extended towards you. ”May I have this dance?” they ask. You look up, and find that it’s your favorite character.
Imagine that favorite character then fucking you so hard that night that you don’t think you’ll be able to stand the next morning.
… Then imagine that since he fucked you so hard your legs still aren’t fully functional the next morning it’s much easier for him to kill you and cook you for an elaborate breakfast.
- Hannibal fandom: OH MY GOD THIS EPISODE MADE ME WANT TO DIE. I HATE THIS SHOW AND THE WIERD BONER IT GIVES ME EVEN MY BONER IS HAVING AN EXISTENTIAL CRISIS.
- Hannibal fandom: It's been ten minutes since the episode time for flower crowns! ✿◕ ‿ ◕✿
hello 911, i think Will Graham stole my dog.