“Where are all the female bloggers?” HERE, in my weekly “top ten.” Why “femmes fatales”? Because these are killer posts, selected for great ideas and great writing, general interest, and variety. I’m a blogger but not a geek, so I can’t work out how to point you to a specific …

“Where are all the female bloggers?” HERE, in my weekly “top ten.” Why “femmes fatales”? Because these are killer posts, selected for great ideas and great writing, general interest, and variety. Lab Kat finds that living in a red state can seriously raise your blood pressure, as she hears how …

“Where are all the female bloggers?” HERE, in my weekly “top ten.” Why “femmes fatales”? Because these are killer posts, selected for great ideas and great writing, general interest, and variety. (A late edition this week — apologies. Being on the other side of the world to usual — Australia …

What is different about the immigrant experience, compared to the 19th century, is that no one heads for the countryside

Natalie Bennett ponders learned helplessness...

“Where are all the female bloggers?” HERE, in my weekly “top ten”. Why “femmes fatales”? Because these are killer posts, selected for great ideas and great writing, general interest and variety. * Pinko Feminist Hellcat suggests that while the religious Right complained about Bill Clinton’s narrow definition of “sexual intercourse”, …

In the second volume of the memoirs of Jill Ker Conway, first female president of Smith College, she has just arrived in America. She starts off being perhaps unsurprisingly gushy about Harvard, after Fifties Sydney: “Within weeks I began to see myself as perfectly normal, like all the other lively …

In Australia supermarkets have cut the number of plastic bags they hand out by 30 per cent, although other shops have barely started on this blindingly simple, obvious, and even cost-saving environmental measure. So why has this move not even started in Britain? I spend an amazing amount of time …

I had been reading about the wonderful 17th-century Mexican nun Sor (Sister) Juana Inés de la Cruz

In answer to that endlessly circulating question “where are all the female bloggers?”, I’ve decided to make a weekly collection that answers: HERE! Why “femme fatales”? Because these are killer posts. This week’s is drawn from my own blogroll, but in the next week if you read, or write, a …