Daniela

Born and raised in Mexico City, Daniela has finally decided to abdicate her post as an armchair skeptic and start doing some skeptical activism. She is currently living in Spain after having lived in the US, Brazil and Italy. You can also find her blogging in Spanish at esceptica.org.
  • Religion

    Habemus Papam: Pope Francisco

    Today I found out that I’m Skepchick’s designated Catholic, which is totally weird since I know next to nothing about Catholicism. My religious education consisted of a total of 6 hours of catechism at age 11, so I have no Super Secret Catholic inside knowledge to share with you. But I am able to read Spanish, so I can dig…

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  • Anti-Science

    Global Quickies: 2013.03.10

    I have so many news items that I’m going to make this edition a two-parter. And since I feel like a lot of times I’m just bumming you guys out with bad news from around the globe, I’m mixing in some lighter links and even a couple to good news. Ready? ITALY The “City of Science”, a business incubator, interactive…

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  • Featured

    Bad Chart Thursday: Sucky Valentine’s

    At 9:30pm* today I was still at work, just waiting for someone else to do their job so I could go home and continue to think about how much my life sucks in the comfort of my own couch. You would think that is the perfect time to open up your browser to watch cat videos on Youtube, steal some…

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  • Anti-Science

    Global Quickies: 2013.01.20

    We have lots of catching up to do! I spent my Christmas break drinking margaritas and making up for my lack of vitamin T intake the rest of the year, so I couldn’t get to these earlier. To make up for it, this time I’ve doubled the amount of quickies (don’t worry, I’ve kept them short so you don’t spend…

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  • Anti-Science

    TEDxValenciaWomen, or How You’re Not Helping

    Cross-posted from Daurmith at Escéptica.org On Saturday December 1st, there was a TEDx event in Valencia, Spain. It was a whole day event with the name of TEDxValenciaWomen. That is, there were talks with the TED.com name, format, and logo (which is usually good at science communication), in Valencia (of course), and it was done (mostly) by women. Since I’m…

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  • Anti-Science

    Global Quickies: 2012.11.24

    Happy Primate Pride Day everyone! What is Primate Pride Day, you ask? Is a holiday started by the Colombian atheist blog Sin Dioses in 2010 to celebrate that we are proud to be related to apes and to promote the teaching of evolution. So stick your opposible thumbs up for this holiday and go celebrate! But first, read the news…

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  • Anti-Science

    Global Quickies 2012.10.30

    Once again, I’ve fallen way behind my world-news-bringing duties. I feel terrible, especially because a lot of stuff has happened. You can blame it on my day-job; I do. Anyways, some of the news items are not so fresh off the presses, but I tried to make up for it in quantity. Enjoy! BRAZIL (from Donnie) A German conman was…

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  • Science

    On Earthquakes and Risks

    Seven people, six of them scientist, were convicted of manslaughter yesterday and sentenced to six years in prison after over 300 people died in a 2009 earthquake in the Italian town of L’Aquila . They had been put on trial for not calculating correctly the risk of an earthquake, and over reassuring the population that a devastating quake was unlikely.…

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