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Knowing Your Enemy
Knowing the Enemy.

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Cards Against Humanitythe politically incorrect, fill-in-the-blanks comedy card gameis using its new science-themed expansion pack to fund a scholarship for women looking to enter STEM fields.

Women are underrepresented in science, tech, engineering, and math, and we felt like the funding from this pack could have the greatest impact by making it possible for more women to get an education in those fields, and by giving them a platform to share their work and their passion for science, said Cards Against Humanity co-creator Josh Dillon in a press release.

Although women make up 47 percent of the U.S. workforce, they constitute only 27 percent of science and engineering occupations. Female scientists and engineers also tend to concentrate in different fields than men do. While women earn over half of the bachelors degrees awarded in the biological sciences, they receive 18.2 percent of degrees in computer sciences and 19 percent in engineering, according to statistics published by the National Girls Collaborative Project. Furthermore, minority women are represented by fewer than 1 in 10 employed scientists and engineers.

The Cards Against Humanity Science Ambassador Scholarship offers a full ride through four years of higher education in STEM fields. Similar charity packs released by the company have successfully raised nearly $2 million for nonprofits such as the Sunlight Foundation and DonorsChoose.org.

Applications will be open to the public for the fall 2016 school year. Students can sign up here (http://scienceambassadorscholarship.org/) to be notified as soon as it becomes available. Applicants must be in high school or college, and must identify as women in a way thats significant to them, according to the press release.

The applications will be reviewed by a board of more than 40 female STEM professionals from institutions such as NASA, Harvard Medical School, and the Smithsonian Institute.

So often girls are told in both overt and subtle ways that they aren't able to be good at math and science, said Science Ambassador Scholarship board member Veronica Berns, PhD. With this scholarship, I'm excited to get to tell a passionate girl out there, Yes! What you are doing and dreaming is really great, and here's some help to get you where you want to go.

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New Daily Show host Trevor Noah is getting lots of heat today over some politically incorrect tweets of his from a few years ago, some about fat women, others about Jews.

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Some people have characterized those tweets as Jew-hating or anti-Semitic, but the national director of the Anti-Defamation League, Abe Foxman, is not quite there yet.

Writing for Time Magazine today, Foxman says hes willing to give Noah the benefit of the doubt and doesnt think its fair to judge him just based on a few tweets:

The tweets that have been singled out tasteless and offensive remarks about Jews, women, fat people, and others seem mostly isolated and dated. Certainly, attacking Jews and minorities has not come to define this young stand-up comedians career, and, like many of other comedians, Mr. Noah seems more like an equal opportunity offender than a cheap-trick jokester or a raging bigot.

Foxman does call the tweets inexcusable and say they play into anti-Semitic stereotypes, but argues that the more important issue is how Noah will proceed now that hes the heir to one of the biggest thrones in late night.

He says, Lets not prejudge him based on a few, random, isolated tweets in the past. Lets judge him based on his performance going forward into the future.

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