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To my knowledge, no one has argued that women evolved recursion before men. This seems like low-hanging fruit, given it’s the oldest story in the book. Indigenous cultures worldwide have myths of a primordial matriarchy where women reigned; which is about the political divide one would expect if recursion were initially gendered. Closer to home, Eve first tasted the fruit and became as the gods, knowing good and evil. Presumably, she spent time as a reflective agent while Adam lived in Edenic ignorance. In this post, I’ll put forth a more detailed model about why I think women evolved recursion...

NASA’s new moon rocket sprang another dangerous fuel leak Saturday, forcing launch controllers to call off their second attempt to send a crew capsule into lunar orbit with test dummies. The first attempt earlier in the week was also marred by escaping hydrogen, but those leaks were elsewhere on the 322-foot (98-meter) rocket, the most powerful ever built by NASA. Launch director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson and her team tried to plug Saturday’s leak the way they did the last time: stopping and restarting the flow of super-cold liquid hydrogen in hopes of removing the gap around a seal in the supply...

Agated neighborhood in an upscale Tampa suburb is a strange place to send your carburetors for rebuilding. The shop sits in the three-car garage of a lovely home, alongside a similarly lovely turquoise 1957 Chevrolet Nomad wagon. There is a long table with some chairs, and a workbench is parked next to a couple of soda blasters. All is lit by florescent bulbs overhead. This the modest domain of Riley’s Rebuilds, a carburetor rebuilding service headed by Riley Schlick. Riley is a 17-year-old girl: A surfing, skating, soccer-playing, Jeep-driving high school senior. Four of her high school friends, all girls,...

Stunning videos of brave women leading men in protests against the Taliban on the streets of Kabul have emerged online. Many Afghan women now fear for their lives and safety under brutal Taliban rule, which has historically brutally restricted the rights of women and girls. But some were seen marching in front of and alongside men during protests on Thursday... In one video, a woman is seen raising her fist, urging the men around her to move forward and keep marching... Other videos from the Independence Day protests in Kabul also showed women marching shoulder-to-shoulder with young men, holding the...

THOSE doing their Christmas shopping earlier this year might be pleased to know that they can now buy merchandise featuring the viral catchphrase from Wednesday’s vice-presidential debate. “I’m speaking” – Kamala Harris’s firm response to Mike Pence’s interjections – now appears on T-shirts, hoodies and mugs. There were several memorable moments as the two candidates went head-to-head, yet those two words cut through the noise and resonated with women everywhere. By the end of the debate, ‘I’m speaking’ was trending on Twitter and saved for posterity in meme form. Thousands of women took to social media to celebrate Ms Harris’s...

The wife of the Atlanta Braves’ Marcell Ozuna was busted on domestic battery charges for allegedly hitting the outfielder with a soap dish, according to a report. Ozuna suffered a “small laceration” to his face in the scuffle with his wife, Genesis, Miami radio host Andy Slater tweeted on Friday.

For the first time in history, a female duo will be calling a NFL game. Hannah Storm and Andrea Kremer will become the first female broadcasting team to provide commentary and analysis during an NFL game when they call this week's Thursday Night Football matchup between the Minnesota Vikings and Los Angeles Rams on Amazon Prime Video. The live streaming service made the announcement on Tuesday.

Vanessa Trump moved on to a Saudi prince — whose father was once suspected of indirect ties to the 9/11 attackers — after her romances with Latin King Valentin Rivera and Leo DiCaprio. Sources told Page Six that Vanessa and Prince Khalid bin Bandar bin Sultan Al Saud were even planning to marry until the Sept. 11 attacks. “They dated from 1998 to 2001 and lived together. He ditched her on 9/11; days after, he flew back to Saudi Arabia. They were planning to marry [at the time]. They were inseparable,” a source told Page Six. Bandar is part of...

'I wanted a woman president really badly and I supported Hillary Clinton,' she told ABC's George Stephanopoulos. 'A lot of my friends worked for her. I was devastated when she lost,' she added. The Comey children were also ready for Hillary. 'Oh yeah,' Comey said, asked about his wife's support for Clinton. 'I didn't take a poll among all the kids, but I'm pretty sure that at least my four daughters, probably all five of my kids, wanted Hillary Clinton to be the first woman president.' 'I know my amazing spouse did. My wife and girls marched in the women's...

MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle weighed in on the stock market's historic plunge on Monday, stating “we didn't see this when Janet Yellen” was Federal Reserve chairwoman during the network's coverage of the market's wild ride on Tuesday morning. The perspective comes one day after Jerome Powell, 65, was sworn as Yellen's replacement on Monday morning as the 16th chair of the central bank. On the same day, the Dow Jones industrial average dropped 1,175 points, or 4.6 percent, to 24,346, the largest single-day drop in points in the Dow's history. The Nasdaq Composite also dropped 3.8 percent. Ruhle welcomed CNBC...

A transgender high school athlete beat girls in the Connecticut track state championship Tuesday, but his time would have placed him last in the boys’ race.Andraya Yearwood, a freshman at Cromwell High School, placed first in the girls’ 100-meter and 200-meter dash finals against girls from other schools in the region, according to Turtleboy Sports. But his time would have earned him last place in both boys’ competitions.Yearwood finished the girls’ 100-meter dash with a time of 12.66 seconds and the girls’ 200-meter dash in 26.08 seconds.The last-place finishers for the boys’ 100-meter and 200-meter dashes, Shayne Beckloff and Terrance...

Ms. Magazine editor and Hillary Clinton super-fan, Carmen Rios, recently took to Twitter to rejoice over the imagined death of former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders In two since-deleted tweets, Rios said, “rejoice, for one day bernie sanders will retire or die” and that she was, “gonna build a monument for all the women who were right and erect it on top of Bernie sanders’ grave.” Founded by Gloria Steinem and Letty Cottin Pogrebin in 1971, Ms. Magazine describes itself as a “landmark institution in both women’s rights and American journalism” and currently employs Rios to manage their online presence. On...

Australia's national women's soccer team have suffered a devastating defeat in the lead up to the Rio Olympics - going down 7-0 to the Newcastle Jets under-15 boys side.

Two boys playing on a girls’ volleyball team at a New York high school could see their playing time spiked when league officials consider modifying a rule that allows them to play with the fairer sex. Seniors Andrew Lafortezza and Jason Elbaum both played for the co-ed volleyball club last season at Horace Greeley High School in Chappaqua. But due to budgetary constraints, the Quakers were unable to field a boys’ team this year, prompting the teens to seek a spot on the girls’ squad, which they earned after receiving approval from league officials in August. ... Kim Cleary, the...

If we're being completely honest, Lauren Silberman's odds of making a NFL team as its kicker are pretty much nonexistent. However, the long-shot nature of her bid isn't stopping the 28-year-old New Yorker from becoming the first woman in history to register for an NFL regional scouting combine, which features players who weren't invited to the main combine currently being held in Indianapolis. Silberman will compete alongside college kickers in New Jersey on March 2 and 3 for the right to advance to a Dallas super-regional combine in April...

Here we go again ... MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A Minneapolis mother is looking for the public’s help in finding a mob of teenage girls that she says assaulted her family. The attack happened Thursday afternoon inside Folwell Park on Minneapolis’ north side. (more in article, found on Drudge)

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A Minneapolis mother is looking for the public’s help in finding a mob of teenage girls that she says assaulted her family. The attack happened Thursday afternoon inside Folwell Park on Minneapolis’ north side. Shawnee Twiet says she was in and out of consciousness when the attack happened. “As soon as I hit the ground, I just started feeling just everything coming from everywhere,” Twiet said. “I mean blows coming from the back of my head. I felt somebody grabbing the back of my hair.” She suffered a black eye, bruises all over her body and imprints...

Sarah-cuda girl power music video. Pink guitars and weaponry, with a latin flavor!

The mold-breaking candidate "played on being a woman, but comes across as cold, frigid and robotic, and women are disappointed with her," said a female entrepreneur. No, the voter wasn't in Des Moines dissing Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton; she was in Paris, thrashing French presidential contender Segolene Royal. When Royal's candidacy was announced, conventional political wisdom held that, because she was a woman, particularly in male-dominated France, female voters would flock to her. But Royal actually lost female support before the election, won by her conservative rival Nicolas Sarkozy. Which brings us to Hillary. If France's dalliance with girl power...

FIRST-PERSON: Not your mom's Girl Scouts http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=25503 By Penna Dexter Apr 26, 2007 DALLAS (BP)--Did you get your Girl Scout cookies this year? Those delectable Thin Mints, those yummy Do-Si-Dos, the melt-in-your mouth Tagalongs. Ya' know, they say these treats no longer contain trans fats. Perhaps the cookies are more wholesome than they were when I sold them oh-so-many years ago. But the national organization that promotes their sale, the Girl Scouts of the USA, is not. Pro-family Americans have admired the Boy Scouts' unwavering opposition -- even under intense pressure -- to get the organization to permit homosexuals to...