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It’s the Skepchick Sundaylies! Wasting Water, Print Your Own Congressperson, Diversifying Music Education, and more!
Sunday Funny: Color pattern (via xkcd) Mad Art Lab Why Waste Water? Using art to draw attention to our global water crisis. Art Inquisition: Could You Be Our Next Winner? What, if anything, makes a design contest OK? Make a Member of Congress Have you been ghosted by your member of Congress? Be like Celia and make your own! School…
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It’s the Skepchick Sundaylies! Magical Resistance, Creating an RPG, and the Changing Face of Critical Thinking
Sunday Funny: What biologists do. (via Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal) Mad Art Lab Resisto Tyrannus Your new Harry Potter-inspired resistance slogan. Superhero RPG Design Diary 1 Ryan has been developing a superhero role-playing game and is letting us in on his process. Better Know a Herpetologist Ethan interviews herpetologist Keely “HK” Smith. School of Doubt Critical Thinking: Then and Now…
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It’s the Skepchick Sundaylies! Marching Across the Globe, Remembering the First Amendment, Campus Activism, and more!
Sunday Funny: Christian Science. (via SMBC) Mad Art Lab Victory Garden Something as peaceful as gardening can take a terrifying turn when placed in the context of xenophobia and war. WIP Weekend: Forward, March! Beth shares some photos from the various Women’s Marches throughout the world, and discusses ways in which the march could have been better. This. The First…
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It’s the Sundaylies! Permission to Shop, the Carrie Fisher-Shaped Hole in the World, Complaining About 2016, and more!
Sunday Funny: Have hope for 2017. (via xkcd) Teen Skepchick In Which my Husband is Consulted on my Shopping Unmarried Elizabeth apparently needs her husband’s permission to shop. Awesome Sauce Music Friday: The Wrath of Hell on the Golden Records We’re not quite sure how a song about emotional blackmail found its way onto the Voyager interstellar record, but here…
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It’s a Very Merry Skepchick Sundaylies! Johnny B Goode in Space, STEAM Power, Teaching Through Analogy, and more!
Sunday Funny: The universe is ours. (via Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal) Teen Skepchick Awesome Sauce Music Friday: Chuck Berry on the Golden Records Too “adolescent” for a voyage into space? Bah, we say! Mad Art Lab STEAM Power Resistance will not be futile. It will be STEAM powered. Science Avatars Ethan has drawn avatars for a lot of scientists lately.…
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It’s the Skepchick Sundaylies! Slicing Through Fake News, Fighting for Truth in the Age of Trump, Toys Dressed for Lab Work, and more!
Sunday Funny: The Math Professor’s Lemma. (via SMBC) Mad Art Lab Fake News? Take a Razor to It. Amy’s art reminds us that the simplest explanation for something is often the best explanation. Astronomy Cast Podcraft and Review Ryan makes a replica of the golden record on board the Voyager space probes. Science is Not the Enemy Important reminder: Despite…
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It’s the Sundaylies! Overthinking Harry Potter, Learning the Lessons of History, Discussing Your Trump Fears with Kids, and more!
Sunday Funny: A reasonable idea (via Poorly Drawn Lines) Teen Skepchick Speak your Mind: Thanksgiving Come on, y’all! Give us your opinions on Thanksgiving. Mad Art Lab Music of the Revolution What a musical 200 years in the making teaches us about politics today. Harry Potter and the Consequences of Overthinking Children’s Literature In an attempt to iron out everything…
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It’s the Skepchick Sundaylies! Complex Cephalopods, Election Cake, and Why You Need to Do More than “Just Vote”
Sunday Funny: Why math confuses people. (via SMBC) Mad Art Lab Octopuses at Work and Play: Jennifer Mather and Cephalopod Cognition Jennifer Mather unveiled the complexity of cephalopods. Mad Art Cast Episode #73 — The Death of Jack Chick and Chicks Who Vote! The gang talk about Jack Chick and the women who have waited almost a century to vote…
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