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I am an Alien Creature
Eve Ensler has released a new book. Â It’s a poem about being a teenage girl called I am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World. Here’s an excerpt at the Huffington Post. I plan to read it in its entirety as soon as I can get my hands on a copy, but I have to say,…
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AI: The new cold war
Apologies to our non sports fans, but the Olympics keep bringing up good questions. There’s a big brouhaha happening over the results of the men’s figure skating competition. Â Defending world champion, Russian Evgeni Plushenko is throwing a bit of a hissy fit at placing second to American Evan Lysacek, arguing that his performance was more difficult, and therefore he deserved…
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The Curious Case of Robert “Sparkle-Tits” Pattinson and the Spooky Vaginae
Details is not known for being a particularly woman friendly publication. Â But, unless they’ve misquoted him, Details cannot take the blame for Robert Pattinson’s odd admissions in a recent interview. I’ll save those of you non masochists out there the trouble of wading through the 6 or so pages of pretentious drivel and highlight the main point of contention: “I…
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AI: Olympics
The Olympics started last night. Unfortunately, due to our local NBC station’s wimpy digital TV signal, I’ve missed the opening ceremonies, and will only be able to see the few events streamed online. I have to say, it was kind of fun watching people tweet last night’s festivities. I now have this vague collection of images forming a picture of…
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Ask Skepchick tackles Yeast Infections (and the sexism inherent in alt med philosophies)
Dear Skepchick, Hi! Um…this is embarrassing, but I was wondering if you could do a post to enlighten…um…people with yeast infections. Because it would be wonderful if…people…could find cheap cures for yeast infections, but when I–I mean people–google “skeptic yeast infection treatment” I get nothing. If douching with yogurt or whatever actually worked that would be kind of fantastic, but…
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Lazily live blogging the Super Bowl. Well, sort of.
So, I’ve been sort of watching the Super Bowl on and off from the kitchen (I’m cooking Swedish meatballs, if you must know). Â And when I say I’m watching the Super Bowl, I mostly mean that I’m watching the ads, which range from pop culture dreck and emotional manipulation (which makes me feel like an alien because I don’t usually…
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AI: Deadlines
I’m a chronic procrastinator. Â I’m not very good at getting things done when there’s no deadline. Â Give me a deadline, and 9 times out of 10 I’ll wait til the last minute and crank something out (like I’m doing with this AI at 1am on Saturday). Â I used to think that at some point, I’d grow out of it, but…
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Ask Skepchick: Homeschooling Skeptically
We here at Skepchick get a lot of email. Â You, our dear readers, are excellent at sending us links for quickies, as well as great questions that help us create content that will be helpful and interesting to you, and we deeply appreciate it. Â So keep ’em coming! Recently, presented with a question we thought many people might find relevant,…
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