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Random Asides
Bad Chart Thursday: “Gangnam Style” Video Slightly Delays Doomsday
Tuesday’s daily chart over at The Economist demonstrates the horrible price we pay globally by collectively watching “Gangnam Style” more than 2 billion times on YouTube. Assuming that each click meant that the viewer watched the full length of the video, the authors calculate that we have spent a total of 140 million “man” hours globally watching Korean pop star…
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Events
Auctions for Science: Photo shoot at CONvergence
Cross-posted with Skepchick Events. This week’s auction is especially for those of you who will be attending CONvergence, the sci-fi/fantasy conference where SkepchickCon is held. Skepchick Jamie Bernstein is auctioning off a photo shoot at the con, so you can get pro quality photos of your cosplay. You can even include a friend! Check out the amazing photos she took…
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Feminism
Bad Chart Thursday: Not Misogyny
This post is not about misogyny. This post is not about Elliot Rodger. Those sentences I just wrote? They also are not about misogyny or Elliot Rodger. If you think they are, then you are claiming they do not contain the words “this” or “post” or “not” or “about.” You can’t have it both ways, people. Here’s a list of…
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Events
Auctions for Science: Virtual Music Lessons, Betty White Teaches Tango, and More
Cross-posted with Skepchick Events. SkepchickCon is just over a month away and we are down to the wire to raise money for science activity supplies, educational materials, and travel expenses for the many talented people who are bringing their expertise to our panels, workshops, and activities. This year, we have more than 40 panels and workshops, which you can see…
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Feminism
The (Un)Censorship Project: Live from the Fascist Menstrual Hut
I started the (Un)Censorship Project as an old-timey highlight reel of sorts for the best of the worst comments, emails, and tweets we get on the Skepchick Network. As every U.S. citizen knows, our Founding Fathers proclaimed the inalienable right to have a commenting platform on someone else’s blog, and the corollary that once invited in to comment, you couldn’t…
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Anti-Science
Bad Chart Thursday: Fox News on Ice
All that hype about the arctic ice melting and how we’re all going to live in water cities built on the backs of dead polar bears? Total bullshit, according to Fox News. I’m sure you’ve seen it by now, the chart showing an INCREASE in polar ice from 2012 to 2013. That’s right. You may have also seen the various…
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Random Asides
Bad Chart Thursday: The Danger of Chairs
Chairs. They’re ubiquitous, such an accepted part of everyday life that no one even thinks twice about them. For as long as we’ve had television and film, falling out of chairs has been a common trope to express shock, clumsiness, or uncontrollable laughter. These days, even genuine accidents are giffed about the Internet without so much as a single person…
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Random Asides
Bad Chart Thursday: Grinding the Axes of Privilege–Racism Edition
Spring is in the air, and the smell of racial privilege is all around, like the sweet, sweet smell of a field of flowers. Fertilized with shit. And without the flowers. This past week alone has given us such gems as “Why I’ll Never Apologize for My White Male Privilege”, written, I believe, by Richie Rich, with help from his…
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