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Featured
It’s Thursday. Do You Know the Texture of Your Cervical Mucus?
Have you ever wanted to have a baby, but weren’t quite sure how? Never fear, Max Levchin, cofounder of PayPal and Slide, is using his expertise in processing payments and sharing photos to… climb inside your uterus. That’s right, a man best known for financial transactions and slick slideshows is ready to tell you when it’s time to get busy…
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Skepticism
AI: Abort? Retry? Love forever?
Today, Secular Woman is launching a new project called Abort Theocracy, focusing “on the intersection of religious power over women’s bodily autonomy and sovereignty, dedicated to terminating that connection by opposing religious influence in government.” My friend Hemant, the Friendly Athiest, has two major criticisms of the project. Mostly the “abort” and the “theocracy” parts of it. Fortunately for Hemant,…
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Skepticism
ICYMI: December 2 – December 8 on the Skepchick Network
Good morning! Where you too busy last week to read your blogs? Don’t worry. I’m on it. I just like you guys so much. Teen Skepchick The Physics Philes, lesson 25: Taking Math to New Heights Mindy divides by zero and the universe remains intact. Suspension of Disbelief: Once Upon a Time A review of the ABC fantasy drama Once…
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Skepticism
ICYMI: July 29 – August 4 on the Skepchick Network
If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably neglected blog reading this week by spending all your time watching the Olympics and wondering if it would be a good idea to take up swimming. Don’t worry. I’ve got your back. Here are some of the highlights from the Skepchick Network. Teen Skepchick Science Sunday: Zombie (Ant) Apocalypse Ali Marie explains how…
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Quickies
Skepchick Quickies 6.18
On This Day: In 1983, astronaut Sally K. Ride became the first American woman in space on the space shuttle Challenger. She went on to become President and CEO of Sally Ride Science, an organization that works to create fun science programs and publications for kids in grades 3 – 8 (with a particular focus on girls). The Education of…
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Science
Ask Surly Amy: Prenatal Vitamins and Isotonicity
Surly Amy, I’m thinking about pregnancy, so my nutritionist suggested I start on prenatal vitamins. Well, that part I’m not skeptical about. But then she went on to say I should buy powdered vitamins that you mix with water, because then that mixture is “isotonic with your body’s internal pressure” and so “you absorb 100% of the nutrients.” This set…
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Burn your fetus down!
I am 35 weeks pregnant today. I will be delivering this little Skepchickadee on May 26. That day cannot come soon enough right now. See, Delaney (that’s her name) is breech. My OB says it’s pretty unlikely that she’s going to flip at this point. As far as delivery is concerned, this doesn’t really matter much because I was scheduled for…
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