The introduction text to the facebook page “Muslim Women Against Femen..Muslimah Pride Day.” reads as follows: On the 4th April. The so called feminist group, FEMEN has declared ‘Topless Jihad Day’ in which they are asking women to go topless and write ‘My Body Against Islamism!’ on their bare breasts. We as Muslim women and those who stand with us, need to show FEMEN and t... »
This post is cross-posted and translated from skepchick.no. Ok, so we’ve been talking about the Higgs particle for a year or so now, but there is still this annoying thing that pops up again and again. Namely the nick name the “God Particle”. It is one thing that religious people talk about the particle as if it was actually divine or something, but when scientists perpetuate myt... »
So, Rebecca gets a lot of emails. That’s not new. She also gets these odd suggestions, like one she shared with the rest of us the other day. They’re a little like the emails we get at the physics department at my university from people who have discovered that Einstein was wrong — just a little less elaborate maybe. Instead of a 200 page Word document, she gets these: I wanted to ask ... »
Hi! My name is Veronica, and I am managing the new and shiny Norwegian Skepchick blog that we launched yesterday. We had our first meeting with the new writers last Wednesday, seven in total. In addition to me and Marit Simonsen, who’s co-admin, we have: Kristin C who’s an astrophysicist, Kristina A who’s studying psychology, Bendik our “token guy”, who’s also M... »
