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Skepchick Sundaylies! The Youth (Non)Vote, Inventer of Endocrinology, Learning about Students, and Reckless Cancer Assumptions
Sunday Funny: Typographic Chemistry (via xkcd) Teen Skepchick The Not So Beautiful Game Step 6: In Which an Opportunity for Research and Plot Development is Lost Elizabet may not have posted about this book in a while, but that doesn’t mean that things got interesting. Millennials Don’t Vote, And For Good Reason Young people didn’t vote in the midterm elections,…
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Skepchick Sundaylies, Monday Edition! Bogus Ebola Meds, Cause Marketing, and Jesus as Disability Cure
I’m terribly sorry. I had super-secret Skepchick business this weekend, so the Skepchick Sundaylies are a day late. Don’t worry, though! I would never abandon you completely. Check out the links below for some of the awesome posts you missed last week on the Skepchick Network. Teen Skepchick Suspension of Disbelief: Nimona Alice reviews the webcomic, Nimona. DBT Skills: Do…
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Skepchick Sundaylies: Paper Classes, Dinner Time, and Guide Dogs
Sunday Funny: Orb Hammer (via xkcd) Escéptica Pakistan and Nobel Prizes (en español) Lulú explains why many Pakistanis are not thrilled with their Nobel laureates. School of Doubt Campus Security Apostrophobia talks to her admins about ebola and guns on campus. Be Careful What You Wish For (Especially When It Involves Prison) An old acquaintance of Alasdair’s is in jail…
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Skepchick Sundaylies: Genetic Smarts, GMOs, and Looney Toons
Teen Skepchick The Physics Philes, lesson 118: Heat, Temperature, and the Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics Mindy dips her toe into thermodynamics. DBT Skills: Yes You Get To Have Fun Remember to do something today that makes you happy. Escéptica Movie Review: Pandorum (en español) Lulú has very mixed feelings about this 2009 flick and then finds other ways to marvel…
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Skepchick Sundaylies: Resting Bitch Face, Cepheid Stars, The Romance Myth, and Raising Feminist Toddlers
Sunday Funny: The Sake of Argument (via xkcd) Teen Skepchick How Best to Be Pleasingly Decorative to Complete Strangers: Facial Expression Edition Elizabeth explains her problem with “resting bitch face.” 50 Shades of Fail Chapter 3: Where Creepy Muffin Eating Occurs and the Intimidation is Purposeful Alice defies reason and continues reading “50 Shades of Grey.” DBT Skills: I AM…
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Skepchick Sundaylies: Werewolves, Gay Wizards, Problematic Music, and Disability as a Feminist Issue
Sunday Funny: Broadside Ballads (via Hark! A Vagrant) Teen Skepchick The Physics Philes, lesson 116: Relativistic Doppler Shift Mindy’s back and she has special relativity in tow. Cryptophile: Werewolves Eddy discusses the plausibility of werewolves. DBT Skills: Adulting! Olivia explains why it’s important to take care of yourself in very basic ways. Escéptica Gods! Lugh (en español) Silvia continues introducing…
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Skepchick Sundaylies: Numismatic Quilling, Names on Facebook, Atheist Rosh Hashanah, Life Before Disability
Sunday Funny: Being a woman at an atheist convention. (via Medium) Teen Skepchick The Not So Beautiful Game: In Which Our Intrepid Narrator Validates his Ideological Convictions via Reality Television, Name Drops, and then Blames the Internet for Mental and Societal Ills Elizabeth isn’t even offended by this book anymore. She’s just bored. DBT Skills: Be Excellent To Yourselves Olivia…
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Skepchick Sundaylies: Scottish Art, Student Privacy, Dating with Kids, and the Intersection of Racism and Ableism
Teen Skepchick The Physics Philes, lesson 115: The Doppler Shift Mindy learns about Doppler shift at non-relativistic speeds. Mad Art Lab Making a Book Celia and Treelobsters make a book and show you how they did it! As Others See Us – Will Scotland Be Brave? In honor of the Scottish independence vote, Beth shares some Scottish art. Escéptica Into…
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