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Winnie Wrote a Math Book
SoyChemist writes "Hollywood is not known for providing a wealth of positive female role models. Danica McKellar, the actress that played Winnie Cooper on The Wonder Years and Elsie Snuffin on The West Wing, has written a math book for teenage girls. 'Math Doesn't Suck' is done in the style of a teen magazine. It even includes a horoscope, cute doodles of shoes and jewelry, and testimonials from attractive young career women that use math at work. It focuses on fractions and pre-algebra and uses mnemonics like calling a reciprocal a 'refliprocal', because you just take the fraction and flip it upside down. Wired interviewed McKellar about the new book and her crusade to eliminate the achievement gap between boys and girls in math courses. McKellar graduated Summa Cum Laude from UCLA. While studying there, she co-authored a proof and presented it at a conference. After she and Mayim Bialik — star of Blossom and a PhD in neuroscience — appeared in a 20/20 episode about intellectual actresses, several literary agents came knocking on her door."
As to causes of obesity: I think the worst one is that people don't really know what to do about it. There are so many different books, diet plans, etc. and it's hard to figure out which one works.
No, I'm convienced the cause of obesity are lazy people without any self control. The way to lose weight is to consume less calories. You also should exercise to increase calories burned. It really is that simple. But people are lazy and don't have the self control to tell themselves no.
Every overweight person I've met has filled this criteria, and it was further re-enforced while my wife worked getting precertifications for gastric bypass surgery (which is never needed).
Not to politicize the thread or anything, but
Thats a magic trick in and of itself, getting people to pay to hate themselves, to be fed tailored insecurities.Look at what the sheeple vote for, look at what the administration and the corporations lobby for, look at what the representatives fast-track into law.
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Apparently women don't want to hear the right words. It's like that old episode of home improvement. I experience this with my wife all the time. I start using technical (ie. the correct words) and she just stops listening and insisting that I'm just trying to confuse her. She wanted to use edit photos, so I use words like palette, crop, layers, scale, saturation, and she immediately stopped listening. She went and bought a photoshop book, and was still kind of turned off with all the "big words". I tell her that we have words for a reason. So that people know what other people are talking about. Apparently she thinks it's better if we use words like "whats-its", "thing-a-me-bob", and "squiggly-thing". People who don't want to learn the proper terminology, are going to have a very hard time getting anywhere in any subject.
Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to see it.