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Quickies
Quickies: Advice for Dealing with Feeemales, Media Coverage of White Gang Violence, and Nudity in Game of Thrones
Advice for Interacting With Women, or Advice for Interacting With Children? – “When Austin, Texas, elected a majority-female city council, the city hosted a workshop on interacting with women in government. It did not go well.” I’m curious, were the non-female members of the city council actually Ferengis? This article also has a fun quiz at the bottom to see…
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Quickies: GMOs, Angry Robots, and Stuntwoman Pictures from Mad Max
The Biggest Concerns About GMO Food Aren’t Really About GMOs – “Passing around infographics about which GMO-containing foods to boycott, or putting tons of effort into passing GMO labeling laws, isn’t going to do anything to solve these problems. They will just make it easier for already-privileged people to buy food they feel good about—which may well be just as…
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Book Club
Skepchick Book Club: Bright-sided
Welcome back to the Skepchick Book Club! This month, we read Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America by Barbara Ehrenreich. I was drawn to this book because I’m naturally cynical and I’ve heard “be positive!” more than enough to be annoyed at the culture of relentless positivity. And I was glad to find a kindred soul in Ehrenreich.…
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Quickies
Quickies: Bone Broths, Misinformed Senators, and Amy Poehler is Wonderful
America wants Harriet Tubman on $20 bill – “Right now, our currency is very male and very white. A grassroots campaign called Women on 20s hopes to change that, and started an online petition to replace Andrew Jackson on the twenty.” From Amy. Louisiana Senator Is Not Cool With Scientists Murdering All The Creationists Dead – According to the senator,…
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Quickies
Quickies: Jon Krakauer Faces Heckler, Poly Families and the Law, and the Legacy of Segregation
Here’s What Happens When You Report Sexual Misconduct on the Subway – Send this article to the next person who chastises anyone for not reporting sexual assault to the police. What Is A ‘Good Muslim’ Anyway? A Podcast Disrupts The Narrative – ” ‘To complicate matter even further,’ Noorbakhsh adds, ‘many times because I identify myself as a “pork-eating, alcohol-drinking,…
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Global Quickies: Lots of Photo Essays, Pink Bikers in Liberia, and Interesting Names in Brazil
It’s Mother’s Day weekend! Check out how people celebrate this holiday all over the world. AUSTRALIA Indigenous Australia exhibition tells many stories – “The exhibition contains some of the earliest objects collected from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people by British colonists and missionaries after 1770. Most have never been seen in public before. They tell the dual stories of a…
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Science
Cross-Post: Losing My Religion: A Review of The Gluten Lie
Editor’s Note: This cross-post originally appeared on Grounded Parents and is written by Jenny Splitter ***** Two topics always seem to inspire a robust conversation on my Facebook feed — diet and religion. I’m conflicted on both topics — I’m an atheist Jew who has, at various times, eaten clean, low fat, carb free and out of a garbage can (that…
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Quickies
Quickies: Edison’s Creepy Talking Dolls, Scientific American’s Past Predictions, and the Decline of Pseudoscience
Ghostly Voices From Thomas Edison’s Dolls Can Now Be Heard – “Though Robin and Joan Rolfs owned two rare talking dolls manufactured by Thomas Edison’s phonograph company in 1890, they did not dare play the wax cylinder records tucked inside each one.” And the article even has the audio from the dolls. Good thing there isn’t a doll recorded reciting…
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