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Hello and welcome to the Double X Gab Fest for Thursday, September 8th.

This is the rookie edition.

I am Hannah Rosen, editor of Double X.

I am here in the Washington, D.C., studio with Kate Julian, also an editor of Double X.

Hi, Kate.

Hello, Hannah. And we are

joined in New York by the lovely and talented Miss Jessica Gross. Hi, Jessica. Hi. Today we're

going to talk about three things. One is a new study that shows why girls don't like science

and why they don't choose scientific careers. Second, we're going to talk about why we only talk

about the heroes of 9-11

and leave out the heroines of 9-11. And third, we're going to talk about a new magazine called

Rookie, which is founded by the 15-year-old Wunderkin Tavi. Let's start with this new study,

which was done out of Penn State University. It was done by a woman named Sherry Barrenbaum, who is

extremely well known among sex researchers. And she is a person who believes in something

called brain organization theory. And the basic idea is that in utero, we get these hormones.

We are flushed with these hormones. And they tend to make us either more

maleish or more femaleish. And they determine everything we do starting with what we play with

at two years old. And this is something all parents can recognize. It's like the trucks versus dolls.

And then the controversial part of brain organization theory is that the people who believe in it

claim that it also carries into our career and

life preferences. Do we get married? Do we tend to choose science as a career? Simon Baron Cohen is also

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