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In Case You Missed It: May 22-28 on the Skepchick Network
It’s Memorial Day here in “the States,” so sit back, relax, fire up the grill and catch up on what you missed last week on the Skepchick Network! Mad Art Lab Prototyping the Dogma Disrupter Steve makes a real life dogma disrupter! Melody Math: Is Original Music Extinct? Ashley makes a video showing whether or not every combination of music…
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In Case You Missed It: May 15-21 on the Skepchick Network
What? You’re not raptured? I guess you’ll be around for a while. It might be worth checking out some highlights from Mad Art Lab, Teen Skepchick and Skepchick SE for the week of May 15-21. Mad Art Lab Disco Institute: Music Inspired by Creationism Listen to a “fully-produced orchestral dance track inspired by an Intelligent Design Think Tank.” That can’t…
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In Case You Missed It: May 8 – May 14 on the Skepchick Network
Did you survive Friday the 13th? Of course you did. It’s bollocks. And your rewards is a list of highlights from across the Skepchick Network for May 8 – May 14. Mad Art Lab To Market, To Market Is shopping at the local farmer’s market more energy efficient than shopping at the grocery store? Science Cast in Silver: Peggy Skemp…
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In Case You Missed It: May 1-7 on the Skepchick Network
Have you had enough of all that bin Laden news already? Never fear! Here are some highlights from across the Skepchick Network for the week of May 1-7. Mad Art Lab Flight of the Navigator A poem about coming out as an atheist. AI: That Song Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means Do you know any songs that mean…
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Feminism
In Case You Missed It: April 24-30 on the Skepchick Network
Skepchick, once a humble monthly e-zine, has expanded beyond our wildest expectations. We’ve spawned several sister sites, all of them dripping with huge gobs of awesomeness. So, to help make sure you don’t miss anything, check here every Monday for a list of some notable posts from Mad Art Lab, Teen Skepchick, and Skepchick Sweden. (Don’t worry, Skepchick SE posts will be linked…
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Activism
The Free Speech B.S. is strong in this one…
Recently, Skepchick Elyse wrote about an anti-vaccine ad being played in Times Square in New York City, and started a worthy campaign to have the ad removed. In response, a counter petition has been proffered, claiming that CBS should run the ad “in honor of free speech and informed consent.” I’m not a doctor, but I’m fairly sure that “informed…
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Don’t worship me, bro!
I’ve recently run across a video called “Dear Women,” put out by a group called Conscious Men. The video is embedded below. I should say now that I appreciate the sentiment of the video. I really do. Women have been systematically excluded from positions of power and been sexually exploited for…ever. That said, I fear that Conscious Men are idealizing…
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Don’t say uterus. It’s rude.
I don’t know about you, but when I was in grade five, the girls and boys were separated and taken to watch our respective videos on our changing bodies. This, I imagine, would have been uncomfortable under any circumstance, but this was Catholic school (read: sexually repressed). I was in no way accustomed to such clinical terms as “ovaries” or…
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