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It’s the Sundaylies, with the Evolution of Sex, How Medicine Gets Approved, and the Weaker Sex
Sunday Funny: Man Tax (via Manfeels Park) Teen Skepchick The Evolution of Sex Alice explores the ways in which sex, from a biological perspective, is so confusing. Mad Art Lab Barbara Boxer Wanted the Congressional Gym to Allow Women, So She Sang a Song for Congress The best story about single-sex Congressional gyms you’ll read today. Women Painting Themselves: Lilly…
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Girls and Boys with Science Toys
I’ve just come back from the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. I was wowed and stunned by the amazing projects and smart young men and women from all over the world doing science and engineering of all kinds. On the way to the airport, I check in online to find that science is once again being described as “boys with…
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Skepchick Sundaylies! Surprise Evangelism, Cellular Galaxy, Mrs. Man’s Name, and Making a Science Fair Worth It
Sunday Funny: Why is the sky blue? (via SMBC) Teen Skepchick The Physics Philes, lesson 131: Popcorn Physics Mindy continues trudging through heat and energy by studying the first law of thermodynamics. Adventures in Unexpected Evangelism: Stitchery Edition Elizabeth encounters evangelism in the place she least expected it. Mad Art Lab #EveryDaySexism and Frida Kahlo Probably the most baffling example…
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Skepchick Sundaylies! Hilbert’s Tenth Problem, Animal Superpowers, and Dating a Feminist
Sunday Funny: Terry Pratchett (via xkcd) Teen Skepchick Ignorance Embraced with Neither Shame nor Gloating There’s nothing necessarily virtuous about knowing or not knowing about pop culture. Mad Art Lab Mad Art Cast Episode #4 Would a bunch of artist go live on Mars? What’s so cool about Ceres? Find out! Julia Robinson and the Cracking of Hilbert’s Tenth Problem…
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Skepchick Sundaylies! Hairsticks as Weapons, the Origins of Ash Wednesday, Homophobia in the Middle East, and Parenting Trans* Kids
Sunday Funny: Vapor Ware (via Tree Lobsters) Teen Skepchick The Physics Philes, lesson 130: It’s Just a Phase Mindy has fun with phase diagrams. Mad Art Lab Blacksmithing, Hair Sticks and Seeing the Matrix Ryan shares what it’s like to get a glimpse into the not-so-secret lives of women. Sailor’s Valentine Kim discovers some non-tacky seashell art. Escéptica Ash Wednesday…
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Cross-Post: Family Meme Time
The following post was written by AJ at Queereka. To read the full article and comment, head over to Queereka. What do you do when a normally cool close family member sends you an obnoxious meme? My Dad and I send each other gross and funny stuff off the internet all the time. We’re close, and share a similar wicked sense…
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Yes We Should Talk About Bodies
Body positivity, skinny shaming, fatphobia, fitspiration. The internet has brought the age of infinite scrutiny of bodies. There are a lot of problems with this. There are fights, there’s an us vs. them that appears between fat and skinny women, there’s name calling and huge amounts of pressure to be fit and healthy. One solution to this that many people…
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Skepchick Sundaylies! Women Ruin Everything, The Brain Thief, and Anti-Vax Parents
Sunday Funny: Right Angles (via Tree Lobsters) Teen Skepchick The Physics Philes, lesson 127: Kinetic-Molecular Model of Ideal Gases, Part 2 Mindy continues trying to parse the kinetic-molecular model of idea gases. The Not So Beautiful Game, Step 9: In Which Our Narrator Blames Everything on a Woman and is Horrified by Mental Illness In which women are girls who…
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