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  • Bad Chart Thursday Relationship Status: It’s Complicated

    One thing charts of all types have in common is that they depict relationships. Ideally, we can see at a glance the main features of each relationship, and with a slightly closer look, the less important features displayed in the chart. With so much information competing for readers’ attention online, you might think that chart designs would be getting less…

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  • John Roulac

    John Roulac: Anti GMO leader, Big Organic businessman, master manipulator

    John Roulac exudes a weather-beaten, albeit well-polished, flower child image. The founder, CEO and face of Nutiva, named one of Inc. Magazine’s fastest-growing food companies in America for five consecutive years, reportedly forgoes designer watches and high-end shoes, instead opting for a more modest lifestyle of hiking, traveling, and soaking in natural hot springs. Yet he heads up the largest…

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  • #AskAChemist: Putting the fix in on Trix

    In this episode of Ask A Chemist, it’s cereal business. A friend of mine texted me the following: WHAT THE HELL ARE THEY DOING TO MY TRIX?!?!?! After a short exchange of texts on why cereal doesn’t require #capscapscaps or that much damn punctuation, we got into what’s going on with Trix. Back in the day (last month in the internet),…

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  • Teens Invent Color-Changing Condoms??? (NOPE)

    Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca! I recently stumbled across a Buzzfeed article headlined “These Teens Just Invented A Condom That Changes Color If You Have An STD”, which would be truly amazing if it were at all true. Unfortunately, saying they invented an STD-detecting condom would be the same as me saying I just invented a tiny American…

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  • What are the odds chart

    Bad Chart Thursday: You Are Not a Special Miracle Because Odds. Sorry.

    Today’s chart is actually a few years old, but it occasionally pops up in my various feeds, and the concept behind it is prevalent in multiple mathematically challenged arguments, such as those for creationism. The infographic “What are the odds?” was created by Sofyay Yampolsky based on a blog post by Ali Binazir, “What are the chances of your coming…

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  • Can We Believe Women Now?

    If you’ll recall, last year there was a horrible incident in which Rolling Stone botched a piece about a gang rape at UVA. They issued a retraction after it came out that details in the story were incorrect and that they did not have enough evidence to support the story. After the retraction, many people felt the need to gloat…

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  • The Highlander Rule of PoCs

    There’s been a long acknowledged rule when it comes to people of color (PoCs) being involved in things. “Things”? What kind of “things”? How about the boards of tech companies? Darold Cuba states in The Loud Fight Against Silicon Valley’s Quiet Racism that “Just three companies—Microsoft, Oracle and Salesforce.com—have a black or Hispanic person on their boards.” Emphasis totally added, y’all. The Chemical…

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  • Carli Lloyd raises her fingers in the air after her third World Cup goal

    Feminism Needs Women’s Sports

    How much fun is sports twitter? I was newly reminded last night during the breathtaking opening minutes of the USA vs. Japan World Cup, when my TL was a sea of caps lock and gif dexterity reacting to the USA team’s performance and Carli Lloyd’s unprecedented hat trick. “I love Twitter,” my male partner laughed as we watched the game…

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