Science
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Skepchick Quickies 5.22
The Hour (that CBC let me down)– Some Canadian Skeptic reviews an episode of CBC’s The Hour which was chock full of woo: Ben Stein and Jenny McCarthy were interviewed. The CBC is taxpayer funded and government-run. George Takei plans to get married– Hooray! That’s right, Sulu can now marry his partner in California. Little girls gone wild– A Salon…
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My Future Wedding Dress
Everyone just calm down — as far as I know, I’m not getting hitched anytime soon. Though I’m not the type to daydream about a long-distant fairytale wedding, I have to admit that I did find a dress that provoked certain . . . stereotypically girly thoughts. My very talented friend John, who edited Curiosity Aroused and hosted the live…
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Skepchick Quickies 5.20
I call this Quickies: The Sex and Death Edition. The neurological roots of sexual pleasure– In a really interesting but still “duh” sort of way, Scientific American explains that in order to orgasm, parts of the brain related to critical thinking have to shut down. Handing it to the bird, in the bush– “Researchers in the School of Animal Biology…
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Girls Doing Science, Kicking Ass
Names may have been taken, as well. As if you all needed any more proof that chicks can do science just as well as dudes, the Sciencewomen blog is reporting that 17-year old women swept the top prizes at the International Science and Engineering Fair yesterday. Rock on, ladies! Details after the jump. Three talented, hard working, and lucky students…
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Polar Bear Listing: Good Move or Empty Act?
Polar bears seem to have received some help from the U.S. government this week. No, not those crazy people who jump into ice cold water every winter because . . . umm . . . because they . . . Okay, so I have no idea why those folks subject themselves to the freezing water. Perhaps they see the dive as…
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Comment o’ the Week, Sponsored by Grammar Nazis
Elyse nominated this week’s winner, posted in a Quickies thread concerning the Catholic Church’s decision to OK belief in aliens. I debated this (internally) for weeks days multiple minutes before deciding to agree with her and hand over the award with one exception. Read on! teambanzai // May 15, 2008 at 11:16 am Way to get with the times Catholic’s,…
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Productive time-wasting
Are you one of those people who gets way into puzzle games? Do you stay up into the wee hours of the morning killing “bugs” with Dr. Mario or jamming out to the trippy music while you flip triads in Hexic? Have you spent nights lying awake in bed with little Tetris pieces floating through your mind? Well, I’ve got…
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Books, books, books!
I can’t help myself. I can’t stop. I am gorging on books. I just picked up Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer and Rapture Ready! Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture by Daniel Radosh this morning. I’m irritated because I have to teach a knitting class tonight, so I can’t spend all day reading both books. One…
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