{"id":25626,"date":"2010-07-21T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/smart-girls-at-the-party-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2010-07-21T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T18:00:00","slug":"smart-girls-at-the-party-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/smart-girls-at-the-party-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Smart girls at the party | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;ve written many times about the gender disparity in science. It&rsquo;s important to support girls who are interested in STEM &mdash; Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. I just found a new site that I think helps: <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smartgirlsattheparty.com\/video\/rachel-the-engineerseason-2\">Smart Girls at the Party<\/a>. It&rsquo;s done by SNL alumna Amy Poehler, who cracks me up, and two other women. They make videos where they interview young women interested in STEM, and the videos are, well&hellip; see for yourself.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smartgirlsattheparty.com\/video\/video\">Find more videos like this on <em>Smart Girls at the Party<\/em><\/a><\/p><p>This video made me laugh; it&rsquo;s supportive and funny, snarky and warm. I think a lot of young girls would really like it&hellip; though caveat emptor, I am not nor ever have been a young girl. I welcome comments from women and girls on this. What do you think?<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/miTs7osWK7Nps6ms0zFwszxPmrE\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/089f9_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/miTs7osWK7Nps6ms0zFwszxPmrE\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/089f9_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/089f9_ZbJRGrOfg34\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/089f9_VIoivnDPpfI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;ve written many times about the gender disparity in science. It&rsquo;s important to support girls who are interested in STEM &mdash; Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. I just found a new site that I think helps: Smart Girls at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/smart-girls-at-the-party-bad-astronomy.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}