Rebecca Watson

Rebecca is a writer, speaker, YouTube personality, and unrepentant science nerd. In addition to founding and continuing to run Skepchick, she hosts Quiz-o-Tron, a monthly science-themed quiz show and podcast that pits comedians against nerds. There is an asteroid named in her honor. Twitter @rebeccawatson Mastodon mstdn.social/@rebeccawatson Instagram @actuallyrebeccawatson TikTok @actuallyrebeccawatson YouTube @rebeccawatson BlueSky @rebeccawatson.bsky.social
  • All Our Friends Are In New York

    I just arrived home in Boston after a very long but tolerable bus ride, during which I managed to compile all the questions for Monday’s Boston Skeptics in the Pub. As always following big, fun meet-ups, I’m drained and a little sad, and also kind of smelly. I got off to a rocky start at the bus station, when I…

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  • Review: Futurama, The Beast with a Billion Backs

    My review: So great. I mean, so, so great. If you love Futurama (and you should), you’ll probably love this. It’s better than the previous movie, Bender’s Big Score. The brief synopsis: an anomaly appears in space, the gang investigates, it’s a crack into another dimension where a giant ball of tentacles lives, which ends up invading Earth’s universe and…

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  • COTW: Giant Slug Edition

    End of the week, kiddoes, and what a week it was! I think we had more comments and new blog registrants than ever before, thanks to PZ Myers trashing a cracker, Elyse trashing Santa, a crazy guy trying to trash the site, and the Skepchicks just plain gettin’ trashed. (For all you new commenters, head on over to Gravatar.com to…

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  • Hey, Hey, Hey Like Being Stoned

    Only because the immense amount of comments on my previous cracker-related post, I thought you’d all like to know: the cracker has now gone to god. The end.

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  • Warning: You May Be Insulted

    I really wanted to give one final comment on the whole PZ vs. the Cracker debacle, and then I decided I wouldn’t because the whole thing just annoys me to no end and has been beaten into the ground. Then at the last second I changed my mind again. Here we go. The reason why it’s still on my mind…

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  • Contact Form Taken Down

    edit: Contact form’s back up! It’s in a simple form right now, I’ll be fixing it up asap. An idiot who thinks aliens blew up the World Trade Center has used our contact form to send hundreds of inane spam emails, so I had to take it offline. I don’t know when I’ll have time to fix it, so in…

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  • Skepchick Drink Contest Judging Underway

    We checked out all the recipes you submitted and are now getting ready to start an intense Skype session where it’ll be Survival of the Fittest. Wish our livers luck! I’ll update this post with any news. Look, photos! (my set-up) (Jill’s) (A’s) (Elyse’s) (Carr2D2’s) See ’em all as they go up on Flickr. update: on our 2nd round already….…

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  • The Big Bang is Science. Transcendent Sex is Not.

    Via Fark, I stumbled across this ridiculous article from some vacant sex columnist for Fox News. And before I go any further, could there possibly be a less appealing job than sex columist for Fox News? I mean, god forbid if she should mention condoms, or abortion, or anything kinkier than doggy style. Okay, anyway, Yvonne K. Fullbright is a…

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