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WHAT DOES "Astronomy"?

During the Easter holidays I spent 5 days in a row at home to my mom, in Santarcangelo di Romagna. I live and work in Monaco of Bavaria, and my forays at home are not very frequent, hardly ever on weekdays, so I took the ball to renew your ID card ': although due in a few months, who knows' when I happen to' the economy still be in my astral place of residence a day when the offices are open.

Cosi 'good morning me the registry office with the necessary photographs. After I gently chided the state (pitiful) of the document, the girl at the counter asked me: "On the old, under 'Occupation', there 'still a student wrote, what should I take?". The first thing I thought, like a flash, and 'was not that the girl had asked me if I had grown in height or if I had changed marital status, but he was not _assunto_che more' student! and evidently so you could see 'so much! The second, more 'pragmatic, and' was, and now I wear? and so 'answer: "Look, do research, but' are not really 'research', and then find I can not .. I put post-doc, but I know that does not exist and anyway it makes little sense .." and so on. She looks at me and says, "Look, you can 'put anything, just that it is something that identifies it." And I said, 'Well, I'm astronomer ...".

While the clerk told me the same things that I hear from so many years by all the people who do my job (but dungeon and what 'this fascinating work! But studies to heaven? "And all rest), I realized how much that word, "Astronomy", had a different meaning for her and me.

be astronomical for me really means a lot: look at the sky with space telescopes, to write large and small discoveries around the world to conferences and collaborations, to speak another language, struggling with books and computer programs, all for study the evolution of the universe .... More
'usually means doing research in the sense of trying to understand what governs a phenomenon quant'anche distant from human knowledge, but not least, continually stimulate their curiosity', and much, much more that goes much more fascinating than the 'close to common sense (and therefore more' understandable) di scrutare il cielo notturno alla ricerca di una costellazione o di una stella cadente cui affidare un desiderio.

Penso a tutto questo in pochi secondi, due o tre al massimo. Poi mi risveglio, e sento la ragazza dire:
"Allora mettiamo 'Professione: Astronoma', va bene?" Ed io: "Perfetto!". Lei si china a scrivere sul computer e non vede il sorriso che si stampa sulle mie labbra...

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Ci sono meno donne nell'ambiente scientifico americano (USA) che in Europa.
Ho sempre creduto che il motivo principale fosse da ricercare nella maggiore mobilità del mondo del work in the U.S., which causes obvious difficulties in reconciling family and career.
It seems that there is not only why, but that till today there is a prejudice in the American society towards women's ability to do science.
This is what is seen reading an article in the Washington Post on April 14 signed by Christina Hoff Sommers. The Hoff Sommers spoke on the policies of President Obama, who called for the extension to the field of science and engineering measures similar to Title IX, a law that requires U.S. universities to allocate funds equal to the sports men and women. Obama believes that such actions, suitably adapted and pursued with due care, would lead to greater female participation in science and engineering.
The Hoff Sommers believes that these measures are to be banned because it would harm American science. In advocating action to achieve equal opportunities for men and women in the sciences according to the American essayist is to give satisfaction to the political associations that fight for equality but ignoring the conclusions of "other" scholars, believes that the Hoff Sommers be the majority, who say that the reasons why women are over-represented in the humanities and social science rather than be "organic" and not to be found in social conditioning. Concludes The Hoff Sommers with a warning to the President and Congress not to support a policy of gender equality "untested" and not enough "dibattutta" in the scientific field in which the U.S. has recognized excellence and is vital for the economy and national defense!
Hoff Sommers's article can be read on the site http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/13/AR2009041302119.html
The outraged reaction of the American astronomers can be followed on the blog "http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2009/04/christina-hoff-sommers-is-at-it-again.html"

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How are we free?


It 'nice to think freely, we end up believing to be.
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But some experiences in which we realize with amazement, not only with horror, as we are accomplices of ours, and that of others, imprisonment .

Below are recounted two moments of wonder and horror that writer realizes have automatically assumed presuposti dell'appartheid . *

"One day, going to the city, I saw a white lady sitting on the drainage ditch next to the sidewalk, sucking the fish bones. He was young and rather attractive, but obviously poor and homeless. Of course I knew that there were poor whites, whites whose misery had nothing to envy to that of blacks, but seldom happened to see them.
I used to see beggars in the streets blacks, and to see a white hit me. While blacks do not usually beggars I was begging, I felt the urge to give the woman money.
At that mi avvidi di quali scherzi giocava alla gente l’appartheid, rendendole insensibili ai travagli quotidiani dei neri, pur lasciandole capaci di commuoversi alla sofferenza dei bianchi . In Sudafrica, essere poveri e neri era normale , essere poveri e bianchi una tragedia . " (pag 186).

"Facemmo tappa brevemente a Kartoum dove ci trasferimmo su un aereo delle linee etiopiche che ci avrebbe portati ad Adis. Lì feci una esperienza alquanto strana: mentre salivo a bordo mi accorsi che il pilota era un nero, e per un attimo fui preso dal panico . Come poteva un nero pilotare un aereo? Ma subito mi accorsi del tranello: anche io ricadevo negli schemi dell’appartheid, according to which Africans were inferior and fly a plane by white was a job. "(p. 282).

(* Autobiography of Nelson Mandela , paperback Press, 1997)