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The 344th Slut: A French Feminist Fights for Equality
It’s a longstanding feminist complaint: men can do anything from yardwork to club sports with their torsos exposed, but when a woman appears topless in public it’s considered illegal and indecent. What may surprise American readers is the fact that France, a country we associate with racy films and nude beaches, shares this double standard—and just like in the United…
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Pro-Disease Activists Attack Grieving Parents of Baby Killed by Whooping Cough
Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca! Sorta transcript: Riley Hughes was born a healthy baby boy on February 13, 2015 in Australia. Three weeks later, he contracted whooping cough, and a week after that he died in his parents’ arms. Riley’s parents want to use his tragic story to tell the world that whooping cough could be eradicated in…
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Alt Med Guru Belle Gibson MADE UP Having & Curing Cancer
Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca! Sorta transcript: Belle Gibson is an “alternative medicine” fraud who for years claimed that she beat cancer with a healthy diet. According to Gibson, in 2009 her doctor told her she had about four months to live thanks to an inoperable brain tumor. After two months of chemo, she said she quit to…
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Superscience of The @Avengers
Can’t get enough superhero science? Check out physics professor Dr. James Kakalios’ superheros website and his book ‘The Physics of Superheros‘. Dr. Kakalios consulted on the above video and has written about the material science of The Avengers. ________ featured image from FunMozar
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Anti-Science Fatphobia and ProteinWorld
Last month, I wrote about some of the severe anti-science rhetoric I’ve seen coming out of the Health at Every Size camp, particularly from Ragen Chastain and the people who believe what she says without verifying it. It’s only fair, then, that I call out the idiocy of the opposing side: in this case, those who are supporting ProteinWorld against…
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#AskAChemist: Turn distill for what?
In this episode of #AskAChemist, I answer a question for mammalogist and field biologist @DNLee. She works with pouched rats and, very shortly, a fog machine. The not-so-secret recipe Dr. Lee’s fog machine uses to generate fog requires distilled water. “Why can’t I just use tap water? It’ll work in the recipe the same,” said Dr. Lee. Water is water, right?…
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Bad Chart Thursday: Random Axes
I’ve had maybe three hours of sleep over the past few days, and my ability to sentence words is at a statistically significant low. But my sleep deprivation is your gain! I’m going to share with you some of the random charts I’ve picked up here and there but haven’t written about because they weren’t enough for a full post,…
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The Paradox of Meritocracy
I’ve written about the gender pay gap before and every time I do I get people who respond by insisting that there is perfect equality in the workplace and any imbalances that exist must be because women have different preferences and make different choices that result in them making less money in their careers. Anyone who has ever worked for…
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