Skepticism
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All the woo in Wooville
Last weekend, we spent a really fun day at the Georgia Renaissance Festival. For those of you unfamiliar with the Ren Fest, it’s an outdoor fair which attempts to emulate the Renaissance period. People dress up, people joust, people perform. You know, like Botticelli used to. It’s a lot of fun. We were there because a friend was getting married…
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Drinking Skeptically in Boulder, June 4
Mr. Writerdd and I will be at the next Drinking Skeptically in Boulder on June 4th. Hope to see some of you Colorado skechicks and skepdudes there! (I know skepdicks is catchier, but really…) Drinking Skeptically is an informal social event designed to promote fellowship and networking among skeptics, critical-thinkers, and like-minded individuals. Don’t drink? Don’t let that stop you…
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Skepchick Quickies 5.27
16-year-old student isolates microbe that lunches on plastic bags– Thanks, Steve! Spanish village holds baby jump– “Grown men have been leaping over rows of babies in the north Spanish village of Castrillo de Murcia in an annual rite meant to ward off the Devil.” Nipple cream warning: harmful to nursing infants– *Headdesk* times a million. One ingredient can even slow…
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Monster Sunday 5: Frankenstein
I was going to write some more about zombies this week, but then I saw this article from the Guardian: Gordon Brown today mounts a passionate and personal defence of scientific research using animal-human hybrid embryos as an ‘inherently moral endeavour’ that could save millions of lives. Writing in today’s Observer, he challenges critics in the churches and elsewhere who…
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Skepchick Quickies – Weekend Edition, 5.24
Why doctors give out antibiotics you don’t need. Hey, remember the Australian psychic political consultant? Yeah, the controversy continues. Teenage girls who consider themselves attractive are 35% more likely to be the targets of bullies. Horrible story: “witches” burned to death in Kenya. How to intimidate catcallers. And possibly get arrested in the process.
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More skepchickal sex
If this subject is still hot — and what are the odds of that? — when I get my current projects finished, I am going to write a book about religion and sex. I mean sex is all over the blogosphere lately, even on Christian blogs. How can I possibly resist all of this? (This is just a small sampling…
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Skepchick Quickies 5.23
Whee, Friday! The start of a long weekend for us Americans. And this first link is a great activity for the weekend. Come for a good cause!– May 25 is the annual masturbate-a-thon! Put on by the Center for Sex and Culture it’s a lot more fun then all those walk/run fund raising events. Click here for info on how…
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Thursday Challenge: Vodka Tips!
I just received an email forward that, like pretty much all email forwards, seemed suspect in a few places. The email in this case concerns the miraculous powers of VODKA! Now, those of you who have met me probably already know the soft spot I hold in my liver for a refreshing sip of Grey Goose. With that alone, I’m…
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