I’m offline this week as I’ve retreated to one of my favourite places in the world for a holiday. I was too busy to prepare a post before leaving, but fortunately it’s about time for another Found while foraging.  Hopefully this post will be automatically published on Wednesday while I’m happily reading in front of a fire in a lovely cottage unburdened by the trappings of modernity — power, plumbing, and internet.  I’ve never pre-scheduled a post for publication before, so I hope it works.  I won’t link to many Scitable posts this time, but do pop over and have a look anyway; there’s some great stuff on there.  As always, though, feel free to add more links in the comments!

• Athene Donald argues that schools (and society as a whole) should do more to encourage girls to try things out instead of treating them as “too fragile to cope with failure“.  What do you think?
• Ruby Payne-Scott contributed a great deal to radio-astronomy in the 1950s before her promising career was cut short when she had a child at age 39.  How much further might she have made it today?
• Kris Hardies discusses whether the use of Western undergraduates in research has created a bias which accentuates the apparent differences between sexes.
• Suzie Sheehy explains some of the issues of benevolent sexism.
• Rachel Aviv tries to get a glimpse into the mind of a pedophile and asks whether it’s right “to imprison people for heinous crimes they have not yet committed”.  Are we dealing with this problem the right way?
• Women in Refrigerators is a short video about “superheroines who have been either depowered, raped, or cut up and stuck in the refrigerator” in order to motivate superheros.

• A short article on CounterPunch about the ‘crime’ of “a powerless black man looking at white folks” in the US.

• Bela Borsodi used the principles behind optical illusions to create a single photo that looks like four separate images.
• The short film Screengrab cleverly uses prints of stills from the video as transitions.
• Some wonderful situational street art by Levalet.
• Photographer Fiddle Oak makes some impressive miniature photo-manipulations.
• Artist Erdal Inci creates remarkable looping animated GIFs by cloning portions of video.
• Neon Luminance is a photo series of fluorescent waterfalls made by dropping glow sticks into the water.  It’s a great idea which produced beautiful images, but I hope they always collect the glow sticks afterwards.

• xkcd bemoans the helkter-skelter pace of modern life.

That’s all from me this time!