Author: Dae

Dae is a chemical engineering graduate student who aspires to become a mad scientist, but is prepared to settle for being a professor. Her extracurricular academic interests are an ever-shifting list, but currently include temperament psychology, philosophy, transhumanism, and pre-modern literature. She identifies as a bisexual cis-woman, as well as a feminist, humanist, atheist, and roleplaying game enthusiast.
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AI: Queer-Friendly

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In Afternoon Inqueery
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On January 23, 2014
There’s a large differential in how comfortable the various places I spend time in are for me as a queer-identified person – ranging from high visibility and acceptance of gender- and sexuality-related variance and issues (most of my online spaces) to rather chilly (my hometown), and all sorts of things in between.  My university environment […]
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AI: Holiday Food

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In Afternoon Inqueery
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On November 28, 2013
So I couldn’t resist a Thanksgiving-related post, but out of a desire not to exclude our non-US readers and have it actually be (hopefully) interesting, let’s talk about food!  I just got finished making a dish my mother asks me to put together for most holiday dinners, ever since I winged it from on-hand ingredients […]

AI: Halloween

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On October 31, 2013

I always end up wishing I had a Halloween party to go to and/or the time to go, and there always ends up being too much going on otherwise.  This year, I’ll be finishing NaNoWriMo prep, and startin

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  Yesterday, I had to give a presentation that’s a minor milestone in my doctoral program – all the fourth years have to present at a colloquium for the rest of the department.  I had kind of a weird moment when I realized how much it wasn’t a big deal to me.  I made my […]
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