Warm fuzzy of the day: Teen scientist to join Obamas at the State of the Union


Who says girls don’t know science? Not Li Boynton. The science genius and high school senior has been asked to sit next to Michelle Obama at tonight’s State of the Union address. Conducting some serious science experiments since she was ten, check out her most recent endeavor:

Boynton’s premier achievement as a young scientist was creation of a method to test for water pollutants by using light-generating bacteria. The student found that the microscopic organisms generated less light as the water’s toxicity grew.
By placing a bacterial culture in a light-tight box with a digital camera and processing the results through a free computer program, Boynton was able to reliably and cheaply test for half a dozen common ...


Who says girls don’t know science? Not Li Boynton. The science genius and high school senior has been asked to sit next to Michelle Obama at tonight’s State of the Union address. Conducting some serious ...

What We Missed

Turns out women making more money and being more educated than their male partners isn’t all bad. Shocking!
Nebraska lawmakers seek to ban abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
A great response from Nate, after reading about the discrimination transgender athletes face on college teams.: “Many times while I struggled to figure out my gender identity, the only thing I had that was certain, was the fact that I was an athlete. I was a basketball player, I wore my sweats to class, I am tall so I already stood out and when I started to question my gender identity, I dug in my heels and reiterated time and time again that I was an ...

Turns out women making more money and being more educated than their male partners isn’t all bad. Shocking!
Nebraska lawmakers seek to ban abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
A great response from ...

Women stop outperforming, outnumbering men in college

The “war on boys” crowd can rest easy today; a new study shows that the college gender gap that favored for women for so long, has stopped growing.

Men account for 43 percent of overall college enrollment and earn 43 percent of bachelor’s degrees – figures that have remained consistent since the early 2000s.

…After decades of discrimination and exclusion from many campuses, women became the majority on college campuses after 1978, an outgrowth of the women’s rights movement and a drop-off in male enrollment after the end of the Vietnam er

By 1990, the female-male breakdown was 55 percent to 45 percent. The gap widened to 57 percent to 43 percent in 2003 and has been frozen there since, according to ...

The “war on boys” crowd can rest easy today; a new study shows that the college gender gap that favored for women for so long, has stopped growing.

Men account for 43 percent of overall college enrollment ...

Victim-blaming in Starbucks case

We’ve linked to this story previously: A teen and her family are suing Starbucks after she was harassed and assaulted on the job by her boss, who demanded sex from her. (She was 16, he was 24.)

There’s lots to discuss obviously, but I just wanted to highlight something the teen, Kati Moore, said the article’s accompanying video – she’s responding to Starbuck’s claims that this was her fault.

Because I had had sex prior to working at Starbucks, then obviously that means I was okay with it.

This makes me want to bat the Starbucks people over the head with my book. I just think the quote is so telling; it speaks volumes about what Moore is ...

We’ve linked to this story previously: A teen and her family are suing Starbucks after she was harassed and assaulted on the job by her boss, who demanded sex from her. (She was 16, ...

Teen pregnancy rate increases after decade-long decline


Thanks abstinence only education!

A new report from the Guttmacher Institute shows that the teen pregnancy rate has risen for the first time in more than a decade. And guess who’s to blame…

These new data from the Guttmacher Institute are especially noteworthy because they provide the first documentation of what experts have suspected for several years, based on trends in teens’ contraceptive use–that the overall teen pregnancy rate would increase in the mid-2000s following steep declines in the 1990s and a subsequent plateau in the early 2000s. The significant drop in teen pregnancy rates in the 1990s was overwhelmingly the result of more and better use of contraceptives among sexually active teens. However, this decline started to stall ...


Thanks abstinence only education!

A new report from the Guttmacher Institute shows that the teen pregnancy rate has risen for the first time in more than a decade. And guess who’s to blame…

These new data ...

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