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It’s the Sundaylies, with Ashley Madison, A Guide to Menstruation, and Chipotle’s GMOs
Sunday Funny: Exoplanet names. (via xkcd) Teen Skepchick Ashley Madison: Protecting Those We Dislike Elizabeth explains why it’s important to protect the rights of everybody, even if they are doing something we disapprove of. Mad Art Lab Mad Art Cast: Neuroscience and Music with Special guest Indre Viskontas The gang talk neuroscience and music with Indre Viskontas! Escéptica A Skeptic’s…
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It’s the Sundaylies, with Science Paper Dolls, What it Means to be Queer, and Gender Policing Children
Sunday Funny: Agree to disagree? (via Cyanide and Happiness) Mad Art Lab Mad Art Cast: Art and Astronomy with Special Guest Maki Naro! Learn about the Mauna Kea telescope and it’s impact on native Hawaiians and learn how to create millions of stars. Gotta Formalin ’em All: The Marine Biology of Eugenie Clark, The Shark Lady Dale tells the fascinating…
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Crosspost: So What If I Wasn’t Born This Way
The “born this way” story of queer identity is one most people in modern developed countries know well. It is applied to people of all sexual orientations and to trans people, especially binary trans people, and tells us that the right way to be queer follows a common structure. We have to know we were “different” from early childhood, we…
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Skepchick Sundaylies, with Middle School Freak-Out, How Ladies Should Speak, and Photoshopping Frida Kahlo
A few hours late (what do you want from me, it was a holiday weekend!) but totally worth it. Sunday Funny: Never tell him the odds. (via The Gentleman’s Armchair) Teen Skepchick Diction and Elocution for the Young Lady of the Technical Persuasion Elizabeth is tired of people telling her how to talk. Mad Art Lab Corralling the Light Elements:…
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Skepchick Sundaylies, with Marriage Equality, Cool Bones, and Pharmacy Transparency
Sunday Funny: Is there a difference now? (via Cyanide and Happieness) Teen Skepchick The Best Museum You Never Knew Existed is in Oklahoma City Mindy can’t believe how many bones she saw at the bone museum. Awesome Sauce Music Friday: Endless Forms Most Beautiful Science-inspired music from one of Elizabeth’s favorite symphonic metal bands. Escéptica Alternative Medicine, Medicine that Kills…
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Skepchick Sundaylies, with Orange is the New Black, Women on Money, and Nuclear Shell Theory
Sunday Funny: Saint Cecilia, Dying (via Hark! A Vagrant.) Mad Art Lab Quantizing the Nucleus: Maria Goeppert-Mayer and the Creation of Nuclear Shell Theory “How does radioactive decay know when to stop? When Uranium-238 breaks up, it goes through twenty-two intermediate isotopes before finally coming to rest at Lead-206, but why remain there? What’s so special about Lead-206, or Calcium-48,…
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It’s the Sundaylies, with Florence Sabin, the God of Mockery and Scorn, and the Corporate Relationship with GMOs
Sunday Funny: New Horizons (via xkcd) Mad Art Lab Mad Art Cast Episode #14 – Birdman! The Mad Art Cast crew discusses the Michael Keaton movie Birdman. Lymph, There It Is: Florence Sabin, Pioneer Woman of Medical Research (Women in Science 39) Dale writes about Florence Sabin, the scientist who rewrote our knowledge of the lymphatic system. Riddle of Valyrian…
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It’s the Sundaylies! #SciArt, How Same Sex Marriage is Literally Destroying Everything, and What is Critical Thinking?
Sunday Funny: Placebo Blockers (via xkcd) Mad Art Lab #SciArt Project for May: The Flame Test Amy’s SciArt project for the month of May is about the process in chemistry known as the “Flame Test”. Her science advisor was our very own, Dr Ray Burks! Check out what she created. Mad Art Cast: Social Media and the Creative with bonus…
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