Annie Londonderry was before her time: free-thinking, daring, entrepreneurial, Annie was cursed with an anachronistic spirit; in the Victorian Age, she was a remarkable anomaly. In 1895, Annie Londonderry became the first woman to bicycle around the globe. In 1947, she died in obscurity. Today on Narrative.ly, Amanda Lin Costa shares this extraordinary woman’s story. Whether [...]

Put on your Lisa Loeb cat-eye glasses, everybody; we are about to get academic!

In today’s EOD roundup, the Boston Marathon bombing, the Senate’s vote against the expansion of background checks on firearm sales , the Texas fertilizer plant explosion — so far, it has been a f*$!#ng terrible, awful, no good, very bad week. In such an intense time, be sure to take care of yourselves, Doughnuts. The [...]

HBO’s Game of Thrones has something for everybody — zombies, dragons, manipulation, sex, wolves, Peter Dinklage, violence, politics, homoerotic subtext, songs by super hip indie bands, more sex — but what we love most are Westeros’ badass women: the dames of thrones fight, plot, snark, strive, and are as multifaceted and intriguing as their male counterparts. Each week, The Jane Dough will rank the GoT ladies according to how hard they ruled in last night’s episode. Start your Mondays feeling like the commander of dragons, rather than the bleary-eyed version of yourself you usually bring to work at the beginning of the week. When you play the game of feminism, you win or you…well, don’t win.

HBO’s Game of Thrones has something for everybody — zombies, dragons, manipulation, sex, wolves, Peter Dinklage, violence, politics, homoerotic subtext, songs by super hip indie bands, more sex — but what we love most are Westeros’ badass women: the dames of thrones fight, plot, snark, strive, and are as multifaceted and intriguing as their male counterparts. Each week, The Jane Dough will rank the GoT ladies according to how hard they ruled in last night’s episode. Start your Mondays feeling like the commander of dragons, rather than the bleary-eyed version of yourself you usually bring to work at the beginning of the week. When you play the game of feminism, you win or you…well, don’t win.

For a movie star, she is pretty realistic.

In today’s EOD roundup, we learn that HBO is planning an “intimate portrait” of acclaimed writer/director Nora Ephron. The project, titled Everything is Copy, will be co-produced and directed by Ephron’s son Jacob Bernstein, a journalist. If this news doesn’t give you the warm and fuzzies, you’re either a) not a living human being or b) that guy who lives on my block and shouts at any dogs that pass his apartment window and he’s pretty much dead inside anyway.

In today’s EOD roundup, Quebec’s paid paternity-leave quota is making the northern province a more equal place. According to a study performed by a Cornell graduate student, after experiencing the reform, “fathers spent more time in child care and domestic work — particularly ‘time-inflexible’ chores, like cooking, that cut into working hours — than fathers who weren’t exposed to the reform…and mothers spent considerably more time at work growing their careers and contributing more to the economy, all without any public mandates or shaming.”

HBO’s Game of Thrones has something for everybody — zombies, dragons, manipulation, sex, wolves, Peter Dinklage, violence, politics, homoerotic subtext, songs by super hip indie bands, more sex — but what we love most are Westeros’ badass women: the dames of thrones fight, plot, snark, strive, and are as multifaceted and intriguing as their male counterparts. Each week, The Jane Dough will rank the GoT ladies according to how hard they ruled in last night’s episode. Start your Mondays feeling like the commander of dragons, rather than the bleary-eyed version of yourself you usually bring to work at the beginning of the week. When you play the game of feminism, you win or you…well, don’t win.

In today’s #watwc, a Princeton alumna writes the most ridiculous letter to The Daily Princetonian, Mindy Kaling can’t wait for Game of Thrones, games to play in the movie theater, and more!