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We Need Your Help to Reach Anti-GMO Celebs
I’m going to assume that you’ve all heard one or more of these names: Gwyneth Paltrow, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ginnifer Goodwin, Sarah Gilbert, Jillian Michaels, Jordana Brewster. I’d imagine that lots of you are fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Big Love and The Royal Tenenbaums, or grew up watching Sarah Gilbert play Darlene on Roseanne. These women are pop culture…
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Skepchick Book Club: Ready Player One
Note: details about next month’s book are at the bottom of this post. Welcome back to the Skepchick Book Club! This month we read Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. Honestly, I love reading fiction more than nonfiction, so even though this is a generally science/skepticism-focused book club, I do like to slip a fiction book in the lineup from time…
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Why the Sesame Street-HBO Deal is a Good Thing
Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca! Sorta transcript: Sesame Street, the public television show that has taught little kids to count, write, and tell near from far for 45 years, has just been sold to HBO. Those who don’t live in the US may be confused — you probably know what Sesame Street is, since it’s shown in dozens…
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So Your Partner was on Ashley Madison. DTMFA.
I’m in a cab late at night making conversation with the typically chatty driver; I realize I’ve lost my keys and have to find a place to crash. Texting frantically, I mutter aloud that I’m pretty sure my boyfriend’s asleep, and tell the cabbie I’m going to try my girlfriend’s phone. He breaks into a grin. “How do you pull…
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Understanding Science with Art
A study was published in the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience that investigates the different regions of the brain that are activated when looking at art. The study investigated, among other things, the question of whether or not humans have evolved to like art and if that “like” is similar in all people. One thing the study revealed was that…
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Why Drug-sniffing Dogs Don’t Work: Racism and the Clever Hans Effect
Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca! Sorta transcript: Are police officers allowing their personal biases to influence how they treat the general public and possible criminal suspects? Yes, obviously. Have you not been paying attention? What’s newsworthy at the moment, though, is the discovery that those personal biases are even screwing up canine units. Police often use drug-sniffing dogs…
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There Is Space For Quiet Activism
The squeaky wheel gets the grease. Obviously. And when it comes to activism, being loud often makes change. After the recent incident with Bernie Sanders, and with a lot of the Black Lives Matter protests, I’ve been seeing a folks in activist movements talking about the way that change happens. I fully support these conversations, and furthermore I fully support…
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Let’s Scare the Shit out of Vaccine Deniers!
Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca Earlier this year, I wrote about a preponderance of psychological research that shows us that trying to use logic and reason to convince a person that vaccines are safe and effective may have counterintuitive effects, leading many people to be even more fervently entrenched in their opinion that vaccines are dangerous. So much…
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