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  1. WSJ.com - As Little Girls and Boys Grow, They Think Alike http://on.wsj.com/h8l3nu
  2. In other news: headline fail. "more tolerant of violence" is not the same as "more tolerant" #timesofIndia http://bit.ly/97ffFk
  3. received additional replies in conversation posted last night. Post is updated: http://www.differenceblog.com/2010/08/when-youre-guy.html
  4. new post: yet another commercial reinforcing gender stereotypes, shocker: http://www.differenceblog.com/2010/08/when-youre-guy.html
  5. I meant "no one SAT next to me". thinking of advice I got as a young woman: don't sit next to men or alone on bus (alone=man might join you)
  6. (cont.) I see that the other two empty seats are next to a woman and a little boy. I have no theory anymore.
  7. On an interstate bus trip; 3 empty seats out of 50ish. at first, I wonder if no one say next to me cause I'm a man, but when I get up ...
  8. Another way in which #marriage affects #lifeexpectancy differently for men and women: #agegap http://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/press/1813.htm
  9. Once again struck by how annoyed i am that women "choose" between work and family, but men's work "choice" is so default as to not be asked.
  10. President of men's-only college on similarities between men's/women's -only schools: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/03/31/men#
  11. #happinessis finding out that I won't run out of hormones before my next endocrinologist appointment. Whew!
  12. A post! no research, just musings on sexual self-report: http://www.differenceblog.com/2010/01/sexual-numbers-revisited.html
  13. Um, taxi driver, not drier.
  14. Just had a female taxi drier for what I think is the first time ever. Not a field I'd noticed the imbalance in before.
  15. well, I meant to let the registry on www.Differenceblog.com expire, but apparently it was set to automatically renew. Two! More! Years!
  16. Elinor Ostrom is first woman to win Nobel Prize in economics: http://bit.ly/177frr
  17. perception of sex in faces: contrast of eyes and mouth http://bit.ly/2d3AeU
  18. Study: Vaccinating boys against HPV not cost-effective: http://bit.ly/JkxkP
  19. Less than a month left on my registration of Differenceblog.Com -- to renew or not to renew?
  20. http://twitpic.com/cv4da - The political comparison quiz finds women more liberal than men, but more authoritarian http://bit.ly/7lKhy