The Map of Critical Thinking and Modern Science 150
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from the that-would-take-awhile dept.
from the that-would-take-awhile dept.
Jamie noticed an interesting map of
critical thinking and science done in a sort of subway style. You can track Newton and Einstein and Tesla and so on. It's actually pretty interesting to navigate.
Only One Half of the World Covered in This Map (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Where are the women? (Score:4, Interesting)
There's still a lot of cultural pressure telling women (everyone really) that the important things in life are popularity, beauty, love, and child-rearing.
It's kind of a wonder that anyone at all goes into science these days. Maybe they should make a "Real Physicists of MIT" show.
Re:Where are the women? (Score:3, Interesting)
There's still a lot of cultural pressure telling women (everyone really) that the important things in life are popularity, beauty, love, and child-rearing
Their culture isn't telling them that--it's their genes.
Of course women can do well in science, it's just that most women are not interested in a scientific career, regardless of culture.
Re:Where are the women? (Score:4, Interesting)
none of that intellectual potential goes into moving the frontiers of the hard sciences
Science and engineering are both pretty sucky careers, and like men have been brought up in an environment where male self-sacrifice is held up as an ideal and "Men Last!" is a highly admired sentiment. So it only makes sense that they would be dominated by men, in the same way that jobs that kill people are dominated by men.
Women are more than capable of doing these things, they just haven't been indoctrinated with the irrational willingness to sacrifice themselves that men have.
Re:Only One Half of the World Covered in This Map (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Where In The World (Score:4, Interesting)
Those that you mention are just the radical conservative ideology rants... nothing of actual substance there.
Some of the overlap is interesting. (Score:3, Interesting)