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Skepticism
ICYMI: August 19 – August 25 on the Skepchick Network
Look! On your computer/smart phone/tablet screen! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s…highlights from the Skepchick Network! Teen Skepchick Science Sunday: The Problem with Dinosaurs Eddy explains the many problems with determining dinosaur species. Modern Mythology: 8-10 Glasses of Water a Day Melanie takes on this water myth and explains how too much water can be bad for you. The…
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Skepticism
ICYMI: August 12 – August 18 on the Skepchick Network
Hang on to your hats, ladies and gentlemen. We’re expecting gale force awesome to come sweeping through your computer and into your eyeballs. You have been warned. Teen Skepchick Can We Reclaim the Movement? Nenfea argues that it’s important to fight for the heart of the atheist movement. Don’t Drop the Science! Eddy encourages high school students to forget the…
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Skepticism
ICYMI: July 22-July 28 on the Skepchick Network
You guys, I have Olympic Fever! It’s time every four years when I pretend to care about cycling and beach volleyball! Go team! Score all the sports points! Insert otherwise totally inappropriate patriotic slogan here! Maybe in between pole vaults and pommel horses you could catch up on what happened last week on the Skepchick Network. Teen Skepchick A Fracturing…
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Skepticism
ICYMI: July 15-July 21 on the Skepchick Network
Good morning! Or afternoon. Or night. Look, I don’t know where you live. I just know that you should really catch up on what went on last week on the Skepchick Network. You won’t be able to keep up on Twitter, otherwise. And we all know that is the pinnacle of human achievement. Teen Skepchick Science Sunday: Dino Feathers Ali…
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Skepticism
ICYMI: July 8-July 14 on the Skepchick Network
Bonjour! I’m back from CERN where I’ve finished solving all the mysteries of the universe. I would tell you what those secrets are, but the Secret World Government tells me that if I did that I’d have to kill you. So you’ll have to wait as we dole them out over the next 50 years. Stay tuned. It’s gonna be…
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Random Asides
Painting with Microbes
Originally posted on Mad Art Lab. Written by Ryan. Evolution in Action is a fantastic little RocketHub funding campaign to study how bacteria like e-coli evolve as they pass through the GI tract of a host. It’s an interesting project and it has the potential to expand our knowledge of bacterial infections so that we may better combat them in…
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Science
Art made of Aedeagus
Well, sort of. An artist down under has created an exhibit of insect penises. (Or, to use the proper name for insect intromittent organs, aedeagi.) "Dr Freud could not have conjured a more disturbing fantasy. Yet all these male members are real. These are insect penises – magnified, modelled, photographed or rendered in glass and resin. Creepy, beautiful and seemingly…
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Activism
Submit your short films to the Atheist Film Festival!
This post was originally written by Anne Sauer over at Mad Art Lab but we want to make sure everyone sees it. So please read, then spread the word and do get involved if you can! Want the opportunity to share your cinematic vision with hundreds of other atheists, skeptics, and freethinkers on the big screen, and a chance to…
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