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Georgia Passes Pro-Religious Bigotry Bill
Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca! Sorta transcript: You may recall that last year, the Supreme Court of the United States decided to allow businesses to actively prevent their female employees from accessing necessary healthcare if the people running those businesses held misogynistic religious beliefs. That was fun. As with any Supreme Court case, it set an important precedent,…
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Melissa Harris-Perry to MSNBC: “I am not a token, mammy, or little brown bobble head.”
In a letter to her staff today, Melissa Harris-Perry stated she would not be hosting her MSNBC show this weekend, alleging that MSNBC has seized editorial control from her: Here is the reality: our show was taken—without comment or discussion or notice— in the midst of an election season. After four years of building an audience, developing a brand, and…
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Bad Chart Thursday: Scholarly Journal Edition
This week’s bad chart comes from none other than the prestigious peer-reviewed journal Cell, in an article titled “Regulators of Gut Motility Revealed by a Gnotobiotic Model of Diet-Microbiome Interactions Related to Travel.” As you can see, the study involved mice playing a game of dietary musical chairs, followed by mincing a Bangladeshi child with a screen, then feeding the…
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How To Move a (Robotic) Arm with Only Your Brain
The merging of brains with computers and machines is a common trope in science fiction, and any time I read an article with a headline about mind-reading computers it hits both my “so cool” and “so creepy” buttons at the same time. Journalist Malcolm Gay’s first book “The Brain Electric: The Dramatic High-Tech Race to Merge Minds and Machines” takes…
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Trump & Dawkins Confused Why White Supremacists Might Like Them
The retweet (or “RT” in shorthand) is a funny thing. It can serve many purposes, some of which are contradictory: signal boosting, positive endorsement, an effort to draw negative attention to someone’s opinions, or simple agreement. The practice of retweeting can be so fraught with confusion, that some individuals choose to include a “RT =! Endorsement” disclaimer right in their Twitter bio. But…
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Did Chiropractic Kill This Young Model?
Katie May was a successful model, with spreads in Playboy and Sports Illustrated, plus a huge Instagram and Snapchat following. Last week, the 34-year old woman died after experiencing several strokes. She was young and seemed to be in good health, so what happened? Her family told TMZ that May had a torn carotid artery, according to her doctors. The…
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2016: The Year White People Blamed Everything on Beyoncé
Some pop culture has the power to change our cultural landscape over the course of time. Shows like Survivor led to the reality TV saturation we see today. Social media has led to greater visibility for those who were previously shut out of establishment media. But still, it’s very rare that any type of media or pop culture can effect great change in a few…
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The Science of Star Wars: The Orbital Mechanics of Starkiller Base
Is it too late to write a post about The Force Awakens? Did I miss the zeitgeist? What if I offered you some science? It’s not too late to write about Star Wars and science, right? I guess I should give the obligatory warning at this point that there will be minor TFA spoilers. I’ve seen The Force Awakens three…
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