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admin on March 19th, 2010
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On 24th March, it’s Ada Lovelace Day 2010 where hopefully 3500 bloggers will be writing a post about a woman in science. Far too many women are erased from history, in science perhaps even more than elsewhere. Ada Lovelace Day is all about bringing these women into the limelight, where they belong, telling their stories [...]

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admin on December 20th, 2008

Imagine taking a trip to see your parents in Bangladesh and upon arrival being kidnapped, bundled into a tiny room and then forced to take sleeping tablets. Imagine then being tied up, thrown into a private ambulance and driven to a psychiatric hospital where you’re given a large dose of anti-psychotics. In this state, unable [...]

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