Really, have you noticed? I’m speaking in particular about climate science-deniers and a realization I had while I was at the American Geophysical Union meeting last December. Deniers give scientists too much credit. It would almost be flattering if it wasn’t so dangerous. »
January 23 is cancer con man Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski’s 70th birthday, but what do you get for the man who has stolen everything from people with cancer ? A sense of shame? A moral compass (to tell him where to go)? How about actually fulfilling the promises he has made but not kept to thousands of children with cancer and their families by doing something to help them instead of profiting b... »
Cross-posted from Daurmith at Escéptica.org On Saturday December 1st, there was a TEDx event in Valencia, Spain. It was a whole day event with the name of TEDxValenciaWomen. That is, there were talks with the TED.com name, format, and logo (which is usually good at science communication), in Valencia (of course), and it was done (mostly) by women. Since I’m from Valencia, I am a woman, and I’m an ... »
Happy Primate Pride Day everyone! What is Primate Pride Day, you ask? Is a holiday started by the Colombian atheist blog Sin Dioses in 2010 to celebrate that we are proud to be related to apes and to promote the teaching of evolution. So stick your opposible thumbs up for this holiday and go celebrate! But first, read the news items I found for you for this edition of the Global Quickies after the... »
Once again, I’ve fallen way behind my world-news-bringing duties. I feel terrible, especially because a lot of stuff has happened. You can blame it on my day-job; I do. Anyways, some of the news items are not so fresh off the presses, but I tried to make up for it in quantity. Enjoy! »
Did you hear? Racist, misogynist pseudoscientist Satoshi Kanazawa has been given a new home at Big Think, where he can spew more racist, misogynist bullshit. PZ links to some of his greatest hits, like his “scientific” proof that black women are ugly and Africans are stupid and other brilliant theories based on evolutionary psychology, Science’s embarrassing cousin who cooks meth... »
I have to be honest with you guys, I’m not sure I’m happy to be back so soon with more Global Quickies. Thanks to your links and a bunch of crazy stuff going on around the world, I had no problem compiling news items for this edition of Global Quickies. And that’s precisely the problem. Am I suppose to be thankful for the weird Mexican anti-education cult or Egyptian men going on... »
The Olympics are a good reminder that there are a lot of countries out there. If watching them has made you curious of what goes on in such exotic locations as Haiti, Nauru, or Ireland when they’re no trying to win medals in… something (I’m not a sports fan), here are the Global Quickies to help you out »
