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  • How to Live a Better Life Through Sarcasm

    Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca! Sorta transcript: Being sarcastic makes you so much better than other people. No seriously, it sort of does. Researchers collaborating across Harvard, Columbia, and INSEAD found that people who were sarcastic or who had people be sarcastic with them were more creative than people who didn’t experience any sarcasm. And that was any…

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  • The Uncensorship Project: Abortion Edition

    TW: Hate speech (esp. racism and misogyny), death threats, and other violent rhetoric. It will surprise no one that Rebecca Watson’s “Planned Parenthood is Not Selling Baby Parts, You Fucking Idiots” led to a flood of comments, emails, and tweets of outrage as well as the usual accusations of censorship for moderating comments and muting or blocking tweets. If you…

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  • 4 Things I Learned While Spending My Summer as a Professional Scientist

    I’ve written before about my…um…abrupt career change. Not a day goes by that I don’t second guess that decision because of course I’m secretly a not very smart person who has convinced very smart people that I am worth their time. Some of those very smart people I managed to bamboozle where the good physicists and astronomers at the University…

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  • The Troubles with Gender

    There is, as some of you may have noticed, a debate going on in the skeptics community about the – how shall I put this – status of trans women. I’m very busy writing a book on the subject of gender diversity, so I spend little time on Facebook and Twitter these days, but from what I have seen there are a…

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  • B0000348 Four-cell human embryo, light microscope

    [Cross-Post] Dear Planned Parenthood: You ROCK for Helping Patients Donate Fetal Tissue

    Ed’s Note: This cross-post was written by Steph at Grounded Parents. If you want to leave a comment, click through the link at the bottom to the full post.  ****** It’s not a day that ends in “y” if anti-choice extremists don’t try to discredit or defund Planned Parenthood. When I worked for a Planned Parenthood affiliate, extremist terrorist groups targeted us,…

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  • Do Bullies Have Better Self-Esteem? Evolutionary Psychologists Say Yes (But Their Study Says No)

    Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca Sorta transcript: A new study claims to show that bullying is not a learned behavior. Evolutionary psychologists from Simon Frasier University say they’ve found evidence that it’s an adaptive trait: that bullies have better mental health, which leads to more sex, which leads to babies, who are also bullies. Baby Bullies, the hot…

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  • Do Anti-abortion Activists Even Know How Babies Are Made?

    Apparently my video about how Planned Parenthood is obviously not selling baby parts has gone viral amongst horrified anti-abortion proponents, which has led them to flood my inbox and my Twitter feed with outrage. Yesterday, one angry man Tweeted me this: @rebeccawatson how dare that baby come stomping in and take over your stomach. He must have just appeared there…

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  • Let’s Talk About Gender Baby*

    There’s been an uptick in discussions about gender theory in the atheoskeptosphere lately, and I’ve noticed a not insignificant number of people throwing around ideas about gender theory in ways that clearly demonstrate they don’t know what they’re talking about. Rather than wading into the specific discussions that have inspired this post, I want to try to clarify some key…

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