Once upon a time a woman was asked about the success of her company. She smiled and said:
- I have been really lucky….
Once upon a, very similar, time a man was asked about his success. He smiled and said.
- I have always been...
Last week Elon Musk took to Twitter in order to FINALLY explain to the world why those self-driving cars that we were told would be everywhere in 2021 are still, well, not really anywhere in our daily lives…
He wrote:
“A major part of real-world AI has to be...
Gloria Steinem once wrote how she was not AT ALL surprised by studies showing that women’s intellectual self-esteem tended to go down as their years of education went up.
“No wonder” Steinem wrote “we have been studying our own absence.”
The more years you study your...
Back in 2013 three esteemed male scientists published a paper arguing that the reason menopause exists is basically because of Leonardo DiCaprio.
Well, they didn’t EXACTLY put it like that…
“Leonardo DiCaprio” is not the correct scientific term. I’m using...
You have probably heard of Dr Kariko by now. Katalin Kariko is one of the big heroes of Covid-19 vaccine development. She is the Hungarian-born scientist who spent decades working on mRNA which has become the foundation for the vaccines made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna.
This week the New...
I have been thinking a lot about the fact that the British government apparently thought it was a good idea to host a major international climate change summit using an all-male team.
It really was one of these genuinely puzzling decisions.
As you know Britain is the host of the...
A male friend of mine once threw an epic fit at work. He shouted at his editor for over an hour about the placement of a semicolon. The whole newsroom was watching.
Now there are two things I admire about this episode. First of course that my friend knows about semicolons. I personally still...
You might remember Leonardo DiCaprio in “The Wolf of Wall Street”. It was a three hour long film where the financial sector was portrayed as a storming sea of cocaine, sex workers and testosterone.
Martin Scorsese the director tried SO HARD to make the characters in the film...
Chastity belts are a myth. There was no “once upon a time in medieval Europe…” when knights going out on crusades locked their wives up in belts of metal to keep them chaste .
The whole story was invented hundreds of years later to make medieval people seem backward. My...
Anni Albers was a trailblazing artist who created modernist masterpieces.
After finishing one of her best works she gave it to her mother. Her mum was very grateful and immediately draped it over the piano and plonked a vase of flowers on top of it.
You see, Anni Albers happened to be...
Around 4000 years ago a group of businesswomen wrote down their trials and tribulations on small tablets made from clay. The tablets were not bigger than the size of your hand. For millennia they survived hidden in the ground.
Today they have been found and translated.
The women were part of...
ABBA’s costumes were all about the ruffles, the sequined jumpsuits, the sparkly dungarees, the tassels, the shiny fabrics, the platform shoes and the animal prints.
But there’s actually an economic story behind it.
That’s right. The look CAN NOT be blamed solely on the general...
