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I wouldn't want to speculate about possible malicious intent. It's likely one or both parties simply misread or misinterpreted something.

No, the Enchroma tests are for colour blindness, not just switching the appearance of one colour for another. I second the confusion by others. How would she know that she is seeing yellow for green or green for yellow if that's how she's always seen them? Think about it. If you saw blue as orange, people around you are still going to call the sky blue, and so you're going to think that the colour you're seeing is called blue (even if you're actually seeing what any other person would call orange). How do you describe a colour to someone to know that you're wrong?

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Do you realise that? Because I don't think you do. I don't see how it is wasting time, when your ability to function at your peak is wiped out the longer you stay awake for. Sure, you have more awake hours, but if you're doing less work badly then is it really worth it? Not to mention the fact that you're on medication, and of course the whole, this will kill you if you keep it up. Then you need to learn better time management. One exam is hardly cause to give up sleeping. Besides, you aren't going to pass anything on no sleep.

Some time last year or the year before when I was chasing the tail end of a few deadlines, I found myself having more work to do than time in the day. I ended up with two solid weeks of the following schedule: 10PM-6AM I would be writing, 6AM get ready for work, 7AM-4PM work, 5PM dinner, 6PM-10PM sleep. I cannot express to you the magnitude of exhaustion I felt by the end of it. It was honestly painful. There was always a period around dawn where the tiredness really hit me, to the point where I felt physically ill. I could often be found groaning with my head on my desk for about half an hour at this time. You just can't function on a normal level with that little sleep, and no sleep at all is obviously way worse. You're slower to react to your surroundings, your wits are basically lost to the sands of time, and you're clumsy and scattered. I've done no sleep for a few consecutive nights also, some time during my honours year around thesis time. Can't say I experienced any hallucinations or too much paranoia. I just remember generally feeling really unwell. OP: this is a ridiculous and unsafe idea. What on Earth makes you think that people are lying to you when they tell you that no sleep for such extended periods is life threatening?

The reason I didn't respond when I saw this is that rate laws and kinetics isn't really something I feel entirely confident in. At a guess, I would think a simple consideration of stoicheometric ratios should give you the answer.

Have you tried reading this thread even a little bit?

Heterogenic has been permanently banned as the result of several wildly inaccurate threads painting homosexuality as bad / wrong / against nature, despite warnings not to do so.

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I'm sorry, but what rubbish. There is at least one meta study that I know of that shows that gender difference by subject is greatest for language courses, and that although boys tend to get better scores on one off tests, classroom grades are always dominated by females across the board where focus is required for longer periods. http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2014/04/girls-grades.aspx Kind of puts a dampener on your whole hypothesis, really.

Just to be a little more explicit than John Cuthber... The oxidation states of the iron on either side of that equation are what? Because that doesn't look like any redox process I've heard of. Moreover, acids tend not to be great at reducing things, making your statement that it turns back to the metal a bit off.

Surely that sort of specialised and rather expensive equipment has a designated person to run or oversee it? They should be able to help you.

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Most / almost all of it came after I became staff. I actually wasn't a standard member here for very long before I became a Res Expert (about 10 months), and I was here (IIRC) just over a year before I was a mod. You do tend to attract more vitriol and attention from members when you're the one giving out the warnings and suspensions. I just haven't seem to have had as much of it (and certainly no comments explicitly telling me that my age and / or gender made me silly or uneducated) since I took my age and gender off my profile page.

Probably not a great idea for a chemistry assignment. OP, what level are you at? You could do vitamin C content of numerous fruits / vegetables or fruit / vegetable juices. There's plenty to talk about chemistry wise depending on how you intend to do it.

I was addressing the general points about harassment in the work place, hence why my examples were somewhat broad. I do not have time right now to address your question regarding physics specifically, but I would encourage you to read the threads I posted links to. There really is some good discussion in there, some of which goes into your questions. I will aim to reply more fully in the morning.

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! Moderator Note I see a lot of claims, but no citations. You have one chance to back up everything you've just said before this gets closed. Be mindful of the fact that this forum also has very strict rules on posting slurs against a group or groups of people. Much of what you've written is close to crossing the line, some of it is substantially over. We won't tolerate this. Stick to facts and scientific discourse, or you will find your time here very short lived.

Warning: anecdotes ahead. It has been mentioned previously that harassment of this nature is wildly unreported. I can say from my own experiences that I have mentioned, in addition to at least one other case that I did not (not to mention the far more numerous cases when I worked in hospitality and office administration), only one was reported to management. It was dealt with in-house, and never went further than informal conversations that I can recall. I didn't mention this in my last post as I cannot conclusively point to it being due to inherent sexism: the end result of that meeting I brought up was that my contract was terminated less than a week later. Up until that point, no issues regarding my performance had been raised, and my boss did mention explicitly that the meeting in question was what prompted the decision. I was told that, 'we want your departure to be amicable. The scientific community is a small place, you know?' In other words, if you make a big deal of this, we're going to make sure your future prospects are bleak. I didn't report that. I didn't report the time that a fellow PhD student expressed his genuine surprise that I didn't know the process of obtaining government approval to work with children (his words: "but you are a woman, you should know how to look after children."). When I worked in hospitality, I never did anything about the comments made to me by men, or even the time one guy decided to place his hands on my hips and feel me up to 'diagnose my back problems' (later offering me - at 17 - the opportunity to come to his house for a treatment in which I would be naked). When I worked in reception, I never reported all the inane comments made to me by certain managers or sales staff about my abilities or appearance. I have never reported the instances where I have been grabbed in bars or out in the city, or alerted authorities when guys have approached me on trains to harass me and not left me alone when asked. One time late at night, a guy literally chased me down a dark and otherwise empty street to tell me he wasn't going to hurt me (I'll never understand that one). I realise most of this is not related to STEM, but the point being: this stuff is very much unreported. I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest to hear that 31% is an under-representation of the true state of things. Consider for example that in 2002, 63% of all sexual harassment went unreported. A more recent HuffPost poll found that 70% of people who experienced sexual assault in the workplace did not report it. On college campuses, that number was closer to 90%. It's probably also true that some comments (you mentioned the word slut as an example) are not deemed bad enough to be reported in the first place. I think this is problematic also. On that note. I do think context is important. If one of my friends called me a slut or similar, I would not be offended in the slightest. My friends know me well enough to know that I am okay with it, and I know them well enough to understand that they would intend it to be taken jokingly and / or with affection. In a workplace with people you interact with primarily on a professional level, I do not think that calling someone a slut, or rating their appearance is in any way appropriate. Perhaps it is minor in comparison to actual physical assault, but I do not see how it is not sexual harassment all the same where the comments are unwanted. Your counter example of insults that you have received, or the claimed under-reporting of assaults committed against men reads like a straw man to me. The fact that we know sexual assault on women to be under-reported makes this: A rather perplexing statement. Moreover: Even if I believed the previous statement by you to be true, it proves nothing of the sort. It proves that preconceived expectations of a person's behavior based on gender is a complex and problematic issue for both sexes, which is not really the point of issue here. I will say that as dire as it might come across, I have not had any issues whee I am currently, and I haven't had nearly as many issues working in labs as I have in hospitality and admin. As CharonY mentioned, biology and chemistry has either an even split or bias towards female participation; particularly at the PhD level, which is what I'm at currently. Five years ago I had just started my last PhD and was in my early-mid 20's; now I am in my late 20's, and half way through my current PhD in the same lab, so I cannot really comment on any differences in that sense. I have never asked, so I wouldn't know and I wouldn't want to speak for them. Whether or not I'm 'pretty' has zero to do with this argument. I could have the face and body of a rotted potato, it doesn't excuse the harassment, and it doesn't change the statistics already mentioned here. I find that your argument somewhat misses the larger issue of ingrained sexism, and how that plays out in things like the percentage of women in physics. Two threads that address these issues very well (CharonY has some great posts in these): http://www.scienceforums.net/topic/87451-why-is-the-female-crowd-not-attracted-to-stem-fields/ http://www.scienceforums.net/topic/79192-many-women-on-the-site/

Could you expand on this? Because it comes across as ridiculous. Lord Antares and Raider, I'll respond to your posts later today.