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8 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +7 points

Texts from Jane Eyre is Audible's daily deal today! I have never clicked 'buy' so fast and trust me I spend way too much money on Audible daily deals.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +7 points

I was born when my mom was in grad school for audiology/speech language pathology and so I was involved in SO MANY speech acquisition studies. There are videos of me playing with my mom in a lab like once a month so some poor grad student could count how many words I knew.

10 years ago @ The Toast - How I Defeated the Tol... · 3 replies · +45 points

Oh man I had forgotten that class existed. I wouldn't be surprised if one of the scav judges reads this and the original untranslated red book becomes an item.

10 years ago @ The Toast - How I Defeated the Tol... · 11 replies · +115 points

Of course the University of Chicago has a Hobbit Studies program.

10 years ago @ The Toast - The Greatest Poems In ... · 0 replies · +5 points

I was just coming here with this, what a perfect poem.

10 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 1 reply · +6 points

I know that this is like a day late but I just wanted to let you know that I'm fairly sure AHA is good people, I know a lot of scientists who have funding from them (and I'm hoping to be one of them as well!) so at least I know they're spending a good deal of money on science.
My opinion might change based on the outcome of my fellowship application though.

10 years ago @ The Toast - "Ozten": Pride and... · 4 replies · +82 points

I feel like the time I've spent watching Australia's Next Top Model really paid off here because I was actually able to understand at least half of this.

10 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 1 reply · +58 points

THANK YOU for the first link, I read the article it's discussing on Saturday and it was INFURIATING. "There's no sexism in STEM, it's just that women are drawn to nurturing professions, like being vets! So many women are nurturing vets." There's the sexism! You've identified the sexism! It's the part where you said that women are told all their lives to leave the hard computer science to someone else and instead just go nurture animals!

10 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 9 replies · +35 points

Here are live stats of people unliking Jian Ghomeshi's facebook page.
Also here's a graph of likes on the terrible post:

10 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +9 points

I didn't make it but here you go: