Skepticism
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Posted at 4:20
After being away for a couple weeks surfing in Mexico, I wanted my return post to be about skepticism south of the border, or the science of tides and waves, or something really cool like that. Barring any insightful thoughts on those subjects, I thought at the very least I’d post about something unique, like perhaps an expose of the training regimen of the world’s greatest blind skee-ball player.…
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Skepchick Quickies, 7.23
Physical Theories as Women: “Newtonian gravity is your high-school girlfriend. As your first encounter with physics, she’s amazing. You will never forget Newtonian gravity, even if you’re not in touch very much anymore.” Hmm, but what about the guys? Suggestions from the Skepchick crew? Indian women looking for abortions are increasingly turning to the internet to find do it yourself…
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On Santa…
Somewhere in the 100+ comments to Rebecca’s post on The Great Cracker Debacle, the topic of Santa came up. I know it tends to be a touchy subject for people. My husband and I were quite surprised at the reactions from people when we said we weren’t going to be telling Moose that there is actually a real live Santa.…
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Papal tweet
While browsing through a Catholic site, I came across an ad asking me, “Want to know what the pope is thinking?” with a picture of some guy’s hand holding a Blackberry with a text message from the Pope saying, “I know. You could be a saint.” Uhh… how could I not click that ad? I just saw Phil from sales…
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Contact Form Taken Down
edit: Contact form’s back up! It’s in a simple form right now, I’ll be fixing it up asap. An idiot who thinks aliens blew up the World Trade Center has used our contact form to send hundreds of inane spam emails, so I had to take it offline. I don’t know when I’ll have time to fix it, so in…
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The Scopes Monkey Trial
I made an oversight in the Quickies this morning, so I’m making up for it with a bonus video clip – on this date in 1925, John Scopes was found guilty of teaching evolution in a Tennessee school. Enjoy Spencer Tracy, as defense lawyer Clarence Darrow, make his case in the 1960 film Inherit the Wind:
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Skepchick Quickies, 7.21
Premonition FAIL. (Thanks to several.) Denver Zoo welcomes rare aye-ayes, rare partially because they’re considered bad omens. Is global warming killing baby penguins? Jesse Ventura isn’t running for Senate in part because he thinks he’s not religious enough to win.
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Skepchick Drink Contest Judging Underway
We checked out all the recipes you submitted and are now getting ready to start an intense Skype session where it’ll be Survival of the Fittest. Wish our livers luck! I’ll update this post with any news. Look, photos! (my set-up) (Jill’s) (A’s) (Elyse’s) (Carr2D2’s) See ’em all as they go up on Flickr. update: on our 2nd round already….…
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