Race and technology

There may be work to do on the pipeline, but the pipeline isn't the problem. Women are leaving tech because they're unhappy with the work environment, not because they have lost interest in the work. As cultural issues go, this is an incredibly expensive problem. Like my friend Sandhya, these women are educated, highly trained, and weren't planning to quit. We're losing them anyway. And once we've lost them, we almost never get them back.

(CNN) -- Actress Raven-Symone knows exactly who she is, and that person can't be defined with the usual labels. That's what the former "Cosby Show" star told Oprah Winfrey on OWN on Sunday night, as she explained why she doesn't like to be labeled as gay or African-American.

Attendees at Saturday night's performance of the St. Louis Symphony were treated to an addition to the evening's scheduled program when a flash mob of protestors serenaded the audience with a civil rights song dedicated to slain Ferguson teen Michael Brown.

At first glance, the Facebook profile is the perfect deception. Purportedly belonging to brown-haired woman named Sondra Prince, it shows her driving a car, splayed across a white BMW, hugging two young children. If someone were to stumble across the profile, which still exists, there would be little way for them to know the truth: The profile is a fake.

This article was written primarily by four Harvard College students, with crowdsourced contributions from the student community at large. The authors have chosen to remain anonymous out of concerns for their safety. This weekend, current Harvard College students and recent alumni received racially charged e-mail death threats from an unknown sender who has continued to...

in light of today's discussion!

This article is a year old, but it came to mind when Carla mentioned her sole astronomer friend.

Harvard University police are investigating a death threat that was apparently emailed to several hundred Harvard affiliates, among others, on Friday afternoon, according to Harvard University Police Department spokesperson Steven G. Catalano.Addressed to "All students at Harvard," the text of the email included what appeared to be racist language. The email referred to its intended recipients as "slit-eyes." Many, but not all, of the email's intended recipients appear to have Asian surnames.

My first thought was, "Olivia Pope."