The girl-geek in me is going "Woot!"
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reynardo Two Kiwi schoolgirls are worldwide celebrities after their school experiment forced an international pharmaceutical and food giant to admit it made false claims about vitamin C levels in Ribena.
They wondered. They tested. They tested other drinks to make sure their process worked. They re-tested the Ribena. They confirmed their results. They published. They, their work and their results were taken seriously.
I do hope those two proper scientists get given scholarships or something later. No, not for outing a big company, which was pretty cool, but for demonstrating proper scientific method and obviously working at a proper, professional level.
Between them and Emily Rosa's paper on Reiki, there's some pretty good role-models for girls in the science field. Makes my little heart all warm and fuzzy, it does.
They wondered. They tested. They tested other drinks to make sure their process worked. They re-tested the Ribena. They confirmed their results. They published. They, their work and their results were taken seriously.
I do hope those two proper scientists get given scholarships or something later. No, not for outing a big company, which was pretty cool, but for demonstrating proper scientific method and obviously working at a proper, professional level.
Between them and Emily Rosa's paper on Reiki, there's some pretty good role-models for girls in the science field. Makes my little heart all warm and fuzzy, it does.
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Date: 2007-03-28 03:28 am (UTC)Speaking not at all about your example but the general theme of your post...
As I biked home today, I came up on two rather attractive young female students at a crosswalk, both on foot. As I passed, I overheard just a snippet of their conversation. They were discussing the finer points of Raptor and Viper piloting with respect to Sunday's Battlestar Galactica finale.
It pleases me to see girl-geeking gone mainstream.
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Date: 2007-03-28 03:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-03-28 06:40 am (UTC)*STANDING OVATION*
Huzzah for Kiwi schoolgirls!!
(I mean that the most proper way as well...)
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Date: 2007-03-28 06:49 am (UTC)and I have to admit that I love that girls have nuked a dishonest food company and some nonsense Woo!
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Date: 2007-03-28 07:17 am (UTC)Also loving the NZ schoolgirls, and their chemistry.
More girls in science and engineering!
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Date: 2007-03-28 02:35 pm (UTC)Huzzah for thorough investigation, and girls doing great things!
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Date: 2007-06-09 11:59 am (UTC)