doctorpulaski
EDGAR MITCHELL - A global consciousness
if you’re ever feeling bad remember that my father was so embarrassed after the first star trek episode aired that he went around the neighborhood and apologized to the neighbors
bendingsignpost
You may want to keep an eye on your fics
I have recently had a run-in with blatant plagiarism of my fic, A Study In Sherlock. This occurred on both AO3 and FF.net. I have notified the sites, communicated with the offender, and the fic has now been taken down. Not listing the name here as I don’t want a witch hunt, but do know that this shit is happening and kindly report it when you see it.
This is a general head’s up for those who are confused:
1. Plagiarism = theft.
2. Copy+paste =/= writing.
sagansense
For proof of the stereotypes that continue to shape American attitudes about science, and about women in science in particular, you need only watch an episode of the popular television show “The Big Bang Theory,” about a group of awkward but endearing male Caltech physicists and their neighbor, Penny, an attractive blonde who has moved to L.A. to make it as an actress. Although two of the scientists on the show are women, one, Bernadette, speaks in a voice so shrill it could shatter a test tube. When she was working her way toward a Ph.D. in microbiology, rather than working in a lab, as any real doctoral student would do, she waitressed with Penny. Mayim Bialik, the actress who plays Amy, a neurobiologist who becomes semiromantically involved with the childlike but brilliant physicist Sheldon, really does have a Ph.D. in neuroscience and is in no way the hideously dumpy woman she is presented as on the show. “The Big Bang Theory” is a sitcom, of course, and therefore every character is a caricature, but what remotely normal young person would want to enter a field populated by misfits like Sheldon, Howard and Raj? And what remotely normal young woman would want to imagine herself as dowdy, socially clueless Amy rather than as stylish, bouncy, math-and-science-illiterate Penny?
Eileen Pollack is a professor of creative writing at the University of Michigan and author of “Breaking and Entering” and “In the Mouth.” She is at work on a book about women in the sciences. Except from her NY Times editorial “Why Are There Still So Few Women In Science?’ And you’re going to want to read all 10 pages of it.
writeworld-blog
Word of the Day: Picaro
picaro \PIK-uh-roh, PEE-kuh-\, noun:
a rogue or vagabond.
The prototypical picaro normally finds himself in a cruelly unyielding world where he must simultaneously serve the needs of several masters. So numerous are these competing demands that, in order to survive, he invariably becomes a master of deception, simulation and multiple disguise.
– William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, 1848
He is rich, this picaro, O'Brien. But there is, also, a proverb — that no riches shall avail in the day of vengeance.
– Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, Romance, 1903
Picaro came to English from Spanish in the 1600s, though the etymology of this term is disputed.
dashoftime
Star Trek ENT 4x12 “Babel One.” Captain Archer welcomes aboard the Tellarite ambassador with a customary exchange of insults.
hamsterloki
So I was looking at this song just for fun because it always made me laugh a little giggle.
Then I realized I never knew who voiced the chef.
I died when I found out.
The chef is seriously voiced by Rene Auberjonois.
The fucking insane chef is voiced by Odo from Star Trek and Paul Lewiston from Boston Legal.
I am dying.
oh my god
maketreknotwar
lemonsweetie
Star Trek: Renegades Has Started Filming!
The pilot for Renegades has started filming! Look at this awesome set -
And what kind of alien is that in the back ground?
A mother fuckin’ Cardassian! Hell yeah!
hychlorions