Science
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Fighting For Space and Exploding Chickens with Amy Shira Teitel
This week on the Skepchick podcast, Rebecca and Dr. Nicole Gugliucci sit down with Amy Shira Teitel to discuss her book Fighting for Space: Two Pilots and Their Historic Battle for Female Spaceflight! https://media.blubrry.com/skepchick/content.blubrry.com/skepchick/Fighting_for_Space.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Blubrry | RSS
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What does COVID, Jade Amulets, Earth’s Weakening Magnetic Field, Atmospheric CO2-increase, and the kitchen sink have to do with each other?
I learned about this paper from the early twitter buzz, but it took so long to write that title and subtitle I got scooped by Retraction Watch. Their write up is a bit brief, barely skimming the surface on how far out there this paper is, but they did receive comments from the author and the editors, and you should…
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Is a Vote for Biden a Vote for Science?
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: The state of science in America is currently not good. I’m probably not telling you anything you don’t already know: our president is a blithering moron who we knew even before we elected him that he thinks climate change…
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Science’s Greatest Strength Will Never Stop Being People…
Last week I gave a job talk to some college students from another university. The students who attended were very clearly motivated to pursue careers in biomedicine, but I realized very clearly during the question and answer portion of my talk that they didn’t need me to really share technical information. They needed reassurance that they were deserving of a…
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Study Suggests Right Wing Authoritarians Aren’t Funny
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: This past summer, hackers released documents related to 700,000 cops across the United States, scraped from 251 law enforcement websites. This month, a journalist at Mainer magazine found evidence in that leak showing that cops investigating rioting during Black…
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Why “Late-Term Abortion” Should Be Legal, Accessible, and Safe
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: Breaking news, Trump lied about another thing! Shocking, I know. Today, I’m going to talk about the most recent lie as of this recording. Since this recording is going up a few days late, there have probably been 15…
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Study: How One Narcissistic Leader Can Screw up the Culture
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: What type of personality succeeds in business? In Jon Ronson’s book the Psychopath Test, he presents the idea that being a psychopath — someone who lacks remorse or empathy, who lies at will, who manipulates others — may actually…
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Study: Masks Don’t Increase Your CO2
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: I honestly love cringe. Scripted cringey TV shows like Curb Your Enthusiasm were eventually not enough for me so I turned to “reality” shows like 90 Day Fiance, and honestly my addiction grew to the point where even that…
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