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AI: Playing Dress-up
So, things have gotten a bit heavy around here, and frankly, I need to take a step back and just have some light fun with today’s AI. Tim3P0 and I have been trying to think of good costumes for Convergence and DragonCon. The theme for this year’s Convergence is “Bring on the Bad Guys”, so evil characters are especially interesting.…
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(un)Becoming the Borg
In the debris of the last few days’ drama, I’ve been thinking a lot, and talking to friends with various points of view, and I think I have a better understanding of what’s happening here. The problem, as I see it, is popularity. As the most prominent female-run skeptical site, and with our head honcho being part of a hugely…
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Skepticism: Your IQ must be this high to ride.
Friend of Skepchicktm Greg Laden was kind enough to put up a post to help promote Skepchicon, and it spawned some interesting discussion about what we do here at Skepchick. Most of it was stuff that’s been talked to death around here, about how we’re ruining skepticism with our bewbies. On this point, this is all I will say: There…
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Skepchicon 2010!
Plans are beginning to take shape for our second annual Skepchicon! I’ve been working on new guests and programming, and hope to make this one better than the last, which is saying something. First things first. We need your help. Last year, Skepchick was able to fund Skepchicon, but due to Rebecca’s recent move to the UK, and her decision…
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AI: Impractical Pets
As most of you know by now, Tim3P0 and I just got home from three weeks on the road. Â Many long hours in the car tend to yield a little bit of interesting conversation, and a whole lot of unfettered silliness. Â At one point on our way home, somewhere in Colorado, my lovely husband spotted a baby coyote, and decided…
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Haiti: What you can do to help
If you’re like me, you’ve been watching, reading or listening to the news of death and destruction after the earthquake in Haiti, wondering how best to help, possibly infuriated by claims that us non religious folk are less likely to donate or volunteer in such efforts. Some research yielded the following. Volunteer: As of a few hours ago, it was…
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AI: Paying the “Enemy”
Yesterday, Tim3P0, r3v, and I went to visit a local museum here in San Jose with a nice collection of Egyptian artifacts. Â It was a decent little place, part of a neat campus of ancient Egyptian style buildings and great vegetation. Â I’m still torn over whether or not it was right for us to go, as the museum is owned…
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Announcing Astrosphere
As we kick off another trip around the sun, some Friends of Skepchicktm have an exciting new project in the works. It’s called Astrosphere, and it’s a 501(c)(3) fundraising umbrella to support various new media projects in astronomy and science education. Their stated mission is as follows: Astrosphere New Media Association is dedicated to promoting science and skeptical thought through…
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