Stephanie Rodgers

Feminist, leftie, green māmā from Te Whanganui-a-Tara

Author: Stephanie Rodgers

  • QOTD: Dr Holly Dunsworth on the “ideal” pelvis

    From a fascinating article at ScienceDaily.com on a new theory about why humans gestate pregnancies for as long / as short as they do – which overturns the traditional idea…

  • QOTD: Aditya Mukerjee on the second-class languages of Unicode

    At Model View Culture, an article hilariously/depressingly entitled “I Can Text You a Pile of Poo, But I Can’t Write My Name“: The very first version of the Unicode standard…

  • Roastbusters second report: surprising yet no surprise

    [Content note: sexual violence, police inaction] Other bloggers have already posted pretty comprehensive reviews of the second IPCA report into the Roastbusters debacle. As summarised by Danyl at Dim-Post: Seven…

  • Who said it? Shane Reti vs. Aaron Gilmore

    There’s an odd trend among National Party backbenchers. Slipping in on the list, or shunted into safe seats by a party at the height of its power, they’ve bought all…

  • The problem with paleo

    Jason Wilson has a fascinating post up at The Guardian discussing some of the problems with the paleo “lifestyle” which is currently very en vogue: The assumptions underpinning paleo have…