Skepticism
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Skepchick Quickies, Weekend Edition – 7.20
Lake Bluff man declares his home a church, gets tax break. My favorite quote from this is: “It’s a honkin’ house.” Have Catholics successfully stopped the Golden Compass sequel? (Thanks, Kim.) Record number of UFO sightings in New Brunswick, British Columbia. I guess word is moving through the alien community that Earth is a swell vacation spot. (Thanks, Peregrine.) Creatures…
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The Big Bang is Science. Transcendent Sex is Not.
Via Fark, I stumbled across this ridiculous article from some vacant sex columnist for Fox News. And before I go any further, could there possibly be a less appealing job than sex columist for Fox News? I mean, god forbid if she should mention condoms, or abortion, or anything kinkier than doggy style. Okay, anyway, Yvonne K. Fullbright is a…
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Warning: This post requires tissues
Check out this video of the sweetest, cutest, most adorable little prodigy ever. (But I warn you, it’s NSFW if you can’t handle getting a little misty eyed in front of co-workers.) Unlike Akiane, that religious painting prodigy girl, little Ye Eun is not a hoax set up by her parents to aquire fortune and fame. She’s just a little…
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Monkeys & High Hats – July 16
It was suggested that I run this feature on Tuesdays as a tribute to the late Monkey Tuesday. I thought about it, but I have to come clean: I was never a fan of Monkey Tuesday (even after hearing the episode with Skepchick’s very own a.real.girl). Maybe I’m a bad skeptic. Spank me. Instead I’ve chosen to do High Hat…
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“Strange” Rock {Teen Skepchick}
Look everybody! It’s a strange rock! Well, folks. I suppose we were wrong about aliens. Roswell has been contacted by extraterrestrials again. The Roswell Daily Record is reporting that they’ve found a “strange rock” that is raising questions. [read more on Teen Skepchick] (This is a slight test — we hope to do more Skepchick/Teen Skepchick cross-posting in the future.…
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global warming causes kidney stones?
Mr. Writerdd, who has had kidney stones many times, sent me an email today with an article claiming that global warming may cause an increase in the occurrence of kidney stones. I don’t know about you, but this sounds fishy to me: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – One more unwanted consequence of global warming may be an increase in cases of kidney…
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Skepchick Quickies, 7.16
Feministe gives a pretty thorough smackdown to the latest news piece about how ladies just don’t like science. Pollution causes women? “Women exposed to the now-banned environmental pollutant polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, are far more likely to give birth to girls.” Lo, a 35-year-old actress, writer, and yoga teacher, is trying to do everything Oprah recommends for a whole year.…
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Holy Shtit.
Sorry, that’s “shtetl,” not “shtit.” NY Mag just published a fascinating look at one woman’s struggle to escape a Jewish cult called Satmar Hasidim from Kiryas Joel in the Catskills — it’s a story that reads as though it’s coming from a fundamentalist Muslim community in the MidEast. In addition to having no access to the outside world by way…
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