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Gullibility is the New Black
First of all, here’s a small update from Moe at Jezebel concerning the women you’re helping flee Basra. $1700 raised so far. Way to go, all of you who donated! Okay, on to today’s rantiness. NPR has a show called Day to Day, and they occasionally feature stories from teens at Youth Radio in a special segment called What’s the…
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Upsetting News
Tracy just clued me in to today’s update on Blue Collar Scientist’s blog. BCS is also known as Jeff Medkeff, a wonderful man and talented astronomer working in Alaska. (He’s the guy who recently named asteroids after me, Phil Plait, PZ Myers, and Michael Stackpole.) Jeff has just been diagnosed with liver cancer. He posted back in May that he…
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Comment o’ the Week: Old Testament Style
So I missed last week because I was busy. I’m busy this week, too, but I’m going to muddle through because I am committed to You, the Skepchick Commenter. And also because I have a few minutes to kill before the Thai food gets here. Yes, I am also committed to You, Delicious Pad Thai. This was another great week…
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Donate to Help Women’s Rights Activists in Iraq
The other day, I wrote a post about why women’s rights should be important to skeptics and I mentioned that there might be a way for all of us to help alleviate a desperate situation. The quick summary: activists working in Basra for women’s rights are being murdered in increasing numbers, and most recently a woman was gunned down while…
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Why Women’s Rights are Important to Skeptics
UPDATE: see this post for how to donate. I learned somewhere that the best way to give criticism is to compliment, then give constructive criticism, then compliment again. I think they called it a “compliment sandwich,” which is stupid because you’re supposed to name a sandwich after whatever’s on the inside. But I digress. In the spirit of the compliment…
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Atheism, Youth, and One Unicorn Drawing
Warning: this is negative. I’ll try to perk it up a bit with cute pictures and bitter sarcasm. Yesterday I was in Manhattan at a Daniel Dennett lecture sponsored by the Society for Ethical Culture and Center for Inquiry. It seemed like a pretty good turnout for a stormy Saturday afternoon — mostly older white fellows, of course, but whatever,…
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Weekend Wrap-up
Last night’s Skeptics in the Pub was fantastic! Patty Pieniadz spoke about her experience as a high-ranking Scientologist, giving an in-depth look at how the CoS convinces new recruits to suspend their critical thinking skills and accept even the most bizarre claims as truth. Patty’s journey from non-questioning believer to full-fledged skeptic is not only inspiring to hear, but also…
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Comment o’ the Week!
I’m on a bus right now, leaving Boston for NYC. Again. (It happens more than you may suspect.) Happily, this time I have wi-fi for most of the four-hour journey, so I’m doing a Very Special Road Edition of CotW. By which I mean, I’m too distracted to actually choose a CotW, and besides that, pretty much all the responses…
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