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Religion
In Case You Missed It: October 23-October 29 on the Skepchick Network
Mindy is busy trying to carve every Skepchick’s head into pumpkins, Mount Rushmore style, so she asked me to take over her weekly round-up of Skepchick Network highlights. Mad Art Lab Don’t Dress as Slave Leia Slave Leia is a bad costume and Ryan tells us why. What Do You Call A Skeptic… Share your best punchline on the post’s…
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Anti-Science
Nanocyborgs vs Savages
What’s the harm in believing weird things? I’ll let Lucy from Skepchick’s sister site Escéptica tell you a terrifying story. ___________________ It is common knowledge that scientists are evil by nature. You just need to browse through your comic book of choice, or if your feeling adventurous you can watch an El Santo movie (a 1950s Mexican lucha libre wrestler…
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Skepticism
Fallen Angels
World Youth Day is finally over and it was a looong day. Six times longer than a regular day, actually. And a lot happened. I could tell you about the pilgrims misbehaving (public drunkenness, semi-naked frolicking in fountains dedicated to Lucifer – the fallen angel, or just making out while waiting for the pope to tell them they have to…
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Religion
Poped up
I know Rebecca said I was going to write a post about the pope’s visit to Madrid, but I live so close to PopeCon central, I can hardly hear myself blaspheme. Fortunately, the awesome Escéptica writer Daurmith lives a little farther away and was able to write this report for Skepchick. —– Yup. He’s here. Joseph Ratzinger, aka Benedict XVI,…
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Skepticism
Se habla español
Hola everyone! We’ve just started Skepchick En Espanol over at esceptica.org, where women from several Spanish-speaking countries will be sharing their views on local and international skeptical issues. Why? Because we cannot allow 500 million Spanish speakers in this planet to go through life without Skepchick. Skeptics in Spanish-speaking communities have very different battles to fight. Some live in industrialized…
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