Skepchick Quickies 2.5
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Mary has informed me that today is National Pancake Day. You can celebrate by getting a free short stack at IHOP or by trying this epically delicious cloud cake recipe. (Pancakes are not just for breakfast, after all.)
- Seventh grade girl builds rocket, sends Hello Kitty into stratosphere – The rocket made it 25 miles up! Check out the video.
- Religious right talk show: Wombs of women on birth control “embedded with dead babies” – Omg, reproduction? How does that work? From CriticalDragon1177.
- When taking multiple husbands makes sense – An anthropology 101 lesson on kinship in article format. From Mark.
- To my male relatives on Facebook who “like” sexism – I love the protest sign pictured with the article.
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Amanda,
That Hello Kitty Rocket is cute. I’m impressed that Melody Green was able to launch it into space. If I was here teacher, I’d give her an A+ for that.
Melody Green, and rockets, are both very impressive.
I just showed the birth control article to a friend. She said she imagined an inside-out (outside-in?) katamari that had just rolled through the nursery ward.
Moonglaive,
katamari? Isn’t that an old video game character that is a giant ball, that grows as it consumes everything? Is this what she was thinking of?
Katamari Damacy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katamari_Damacy
Alas, the altitude of the rocket was given in meters, so it only made it to 17 miles. Still very respectable. I suspect it is the highest altitude ever obtained by a Hello Kitty.
I really want to find these so-called scientists and doctors he’s referring to. My eyes rolled a lot while reading it.
And yay for hello kitty rocket!!