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Skepticism
Paula and Rachel
“And I tell you what, if there’s anyone out there that has never said something that they wish they could take back, if you’re out there, please pick up that stone and throw it so hard at my head that it kills me. Please. I want to meet you. I want to meet you. I is what I is and…
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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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Feminism
Everything Sucks, but Not How You Think
Dave McClure might not be a familiar name in the skeptic community, but he’s pretty well known in tech. A self-described “late bloomer,” he’s a guy who held various software industry jobs before founding the popular accelerator 500 Startups. He blogs and speaks at conferences and the like, typically with eyeball-peelingly bad slides and some foul language to boot. And…
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Religion
IndieUhOh: Crowdfunding Exotic Vacations–err, Religious Missions?
Ah, the wisdom of crowds! Two heads are better than one, so hundreds of heads must be super friggin’ smart. As we know from experience, people getting together always results in really smart things being done. Er, most of the time. Sometimes. Once in a while? Anyway, we’ve seen before that crowdfunding has the potential to do great stuff, like…
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Skepticism
MZ Phone Home: Preaching Facebook to the World
It’s not a Facebook phone, exactly, but the new Facebook Home is a home screen experience and app launcher that makes your phone all about people instead of all about about apps. Is this going to make using Facebook closer to a religious experience, or closer to religion itself? While people drive most of our interactions, information can too. And…
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Religion
The Quantified Church (of TED)
You may have heard about TED talks. They’re pretty popular amongst a certain sect. They appeal to people for a lot of reasons: they’re fun, flashy, and emotionally appealing. They feel really important, almost life-changing, in no small part because they’re aggressively branded as such. And above all, TED talks are short, typically requiring less than 15 minutes of your…
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Featured
Amazing Tech, How Sweet the Sound… or Is It?
Steve Jobs was famous for using the words, and perhaps in part due to his legacy, it can seem like almost every major new technology these days has to be “amazing” or “magical” in some way. Whether it’s an amazing iPhone case or an amazing laptop that can’t even download any desktop applications, if it ain’t amazing, it ain’t getting…
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