Google engineer's gender memo calls out "ideological echo chamber" | NASA seeks applicants for planet protection job | A new theory of employee motivation
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A memo by a male engineer at Google about the company's diversity efforts and an "ideological echo chamber" of silence has gone viral and drawn ire from the top ranks. Danielle Brown, Google's diversity chief, said the engineer "advanced incorrect assumptions about gender" and that his views are not endorsed by Google.
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There is a planetary protection officer position available at NASA that pays between $124,000 and $187,000 per year. Among the applicants: a 9-year-old boy who cites as a qualification that his sister thinks he's an alien.
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