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LAWAAG is Hosting a Meetup With Best-Selling Author Scott Sigler!
Our book club just got freakin’ REAL! Very excited to announce a special get-together with the author of the Los Angeles Women’s Atheist and Agnostic Group bookclub selection for November! New York Times Best-Selling author, Scott Sigler will join us, in an intimate setting, to do a reading from his latest sci-fi YA book, ALIVE and to talk about how…
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Do You Need Fancy Stemware?
Have you ever eaten yogurt with a fork? Ever had cereal from a coffee mug? Coffee from a mason jar? Have you, like me, made nachos in a saucepan because you didn’t have a baking sheet? Then you know that a food or beverage vessel is, for the most part, aesthetic. Wine stemware vendors like Riedel and Spiegelau stand to…
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Study: Angry Women Aren’t Taken Seriously
Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca Sorta transcript: A new study confirms a thing that billions of women already knew: women aren’t allowed to be angry. I mean, it’s not against the law, or anything, but a woman who is angry in an argument is more likely to solidify her opponent’s opinion rather than change his or her mind.…
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Viola Davis Makes #Emmys History
Until tonight, a woman of color had never won an Emmy for Best Actress in a Drama. It’s hard to believe in 2015 (unless you consider that the rest of the awards shows also have a glaring race problem), but Viola Davis broke that shameful streak and won an Emmy for her stellar work on How To Get Away With Murder. As amazing as…
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Muslim Science-Loving Kid Comes Out On Top, Infuriates White Atheists
The brave and brilliant youngster Ahmed Mohamed has been showered with support since his ludicrous and racist arrest this week, receiving invitations to MIT, Harvard, NASA, Facebook, Twittter, and the White House, to name a few. (It’s important to note that the police who arrested him and the school who saw fit to punish him for a science project have…
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Muslim Boy Arrested in Texas for DOING SCIENCE
Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca Sorta transcript: A 14-year old Muslim boy was arrested in Texas this week for making his own clock and bringing it to school. As we all know, clocks are a necessary feature of all the bombs we see on television. If it weren’t for the clock part, we would have no idea how…
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Bad Chart Thursday: Paul Krugman’s EXCEL-lent Adventure
If you follow economist Paul Krugman’s op-ed column in the New York Times, you may have noticed that he occasionally creates his own graphs using the sophisticated stylings of Microsoft Excel (or perhaps Google Sheets). I recognize the generic look, especially the default colors (red and blue), because I use the limited chart-making options in spreadsheet programs as well. The…
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Adult Coloring. Does it Actually Have Any Mental Health Benefits?
There is a big trend in the meditation and self-help communities of adult coloring for relaxation, stress and anxiety reduction. As an artist, I have always looked at my work as a way of helping me to focus and to escape from the stress of the daily grind, but could that same feeling be transferred to the non-artist? And why…
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