How YOU Can Help Scientists Combat Global Warming
Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca! Sorta transcript: This past weekend, the nice folks at the California Academy of Sciences invited me to join their “Snapshot Cal Coast” initiative, …
It’s the Skepchick Sundaylies! Help Finding a Therapist and the Intentionality Fallacy
Sunday Funny: The Hard Limit of Outrage (via Wondermark) Teen Skepchick Guest Post – Trying to Get Therapy: Asking Questions Beyond “How Long Have You Been Practicing?” Finding a therapist …
Global Quickies: Vaccines in Europe, Evolution in Turkey, and Nazi-era Convictions Quashed
EUROPE “The European Court of Justice has ruled that courts may consider vaccines to be the cause of an illness, even in the absence of scientific evidence confirming a link.” …
What the Media Gets Wrong About Children Dying of Gunshots
Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca! Sorta transcript: A truly heartbreaking study has just been published in the journal “Pediatrics” showing that the third leading cause of death for …
Monsanto Doesn’t Cause Cancer!
Sorta transcript: People hate Monsanto, mostly because they’re a huge corporation that has a lot of power over our food supply, and that scares people. It especially scares people because …
The Skepchick Sundaylies! Summer Reading List, Signs of Life, and the Undesirability of Flying Cars
Sunday Funny: Myths and Facts about Cottonmouths (via bird and moon) Mad Art Lab A Few (well, 90+) of my Favorite Books Need a summer reading list? Emily has you …
Global Quickies: Wonder Woman Chores, White Headscarves, and Compulsory Vaccinations in France
BELGIUM “Belgian cinema chain Kinepolis has been accused of being tone deaf with gift bags it gave to attendees of a women-only showing of Wonder Woman that contained several items …
Happy Anniversary to the First Woman in Space!
Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca! Sorta transcript: Today is the 54th anniversary of the first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova, known as “Valya” to her friends. She went …
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Jon Brewer
Essentially, yes. The other one is school shootings, but they're relatively rare, and tend to get a bunch of scapegoats. (Besides guns, I've heard that movies, video games, RPGs, heavy…
weatherwax
I agree with your assessment. This kind of thing isn't new. Some years ago one study expanded the age of children to 24.
Sarah
Yay~ I missed these. Not that I don't like your vids, Rebecca, I just already get updated on them when they appear on Youtube :D
weatherwax
Just a quick note, the pilot of Vostok 5 was Valery Bykovsky, who went on to pilot Soyuz 22 and 31. Great as always.
John the Drunkard
Hmm. I've only seen reports on Friendly Atheist, The Freethinker, and maybe Butterflies and Wheels. The big push there was that this was a Jesus tattoo. Also mentioned that the…