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Skepchick Sundaylies, with Twitter Choose Your Own Adventure, American Discipline, and Three-Headed Dogs
Sunday Funny: Human Subjects (via xkcd) Teen Skepchick Cryptophile: Cerberus Eddy explores the possibility of a real life Cerberus. Mad Art Lab Mad Art Cast — Brainwaves! Ashley takes one for the team and test drives a ‘brainwave’ enhancement product. Twitter Poll Text Adventure Ethan takes Choose Your Own Adventure stories to social media, with delightful results. The Bacteria Chlamydia…
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It’s the Sundaylies, with Pick the Dinosaur, Queer PDA, Difficult Colleagues, and a Kid-Friendly GMO Experiment
Sunday Funny: Movie Science vs. Real Science (via The Upturned Microscope) Mad Art Lab Batman and Copyright Robin talks to us about art and copyright and how fan art sometimes walks the line. Mad Art Cast: Performance Anxiety This week A gives us an update on the “female Viagra” and Ashley brings us a story about Adele and news of…
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It’s the Sundaylies! With Imperator Peachiosa, Bisexuality Awareness, What “Gender Neutral” Means in Practice
Sunday Funny: Crag is such a nerd. (via Poorly Drawn Lines) Mad Art Lab The Chemistry of Rose Scent Amy explores the science behind rose scents with the help of Dr. Ray Burks. Making Imperator Peachiosa Seelix walks us through her amazing Furiosa/Princess Peach cosplay. A Case for Prince Zelda Ryan explores what the Legend of Zelda games could be…
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It’s the Sundaylies! With an Ode to Oliver Sacks, Mycological Masterpieces, and the Real Housewives of Wooville
Sunday Funny: Cheshire Cat (via Hark a Vagrant) Teen Skepchick Requiescat in Pace: Oliver Sacks Elizabeth writes about how the late Oliver Sacks impacted her life. Mad Art Lab Making Mycological Masterpieces Let a microbiologist teach you how to make gorgeous art prints with mushroom spores. Mad Art Cast — Pamela Gay Interview! Mad Art Cast has the silkiest voice…
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Skepchick Sundaylies! Featuring the Science of Hot Peppers, Bisexuality vs. Pansexuality, a GMO-Free School District, and Those Ugly, Ignorant, and Poor Youth
Sunday Funny: Jesus is immune to water attack. (via SMBC) Teen Skepchick Sex Ed with James Dobson: In Which We Feel Bad About Ourselves Because We are Ugly, Unintelligent, and Poor The good Doctor Dobson explains all the ways in which teens hate themselves in excruciating detail. Mad Art Lab Ada Lovelace and the Curious Practice of Programming for Non-Existent…
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It’s the Skepchick Sundaylies, with James Dobson’s Sex Ed, Lady Viagra, Spaced Repetition System, and Breastfeeding Myths
Sunday Funny: Supernatural Selection. (via Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal) Teen Skepchick New Book Series! Sex Ed with James Dobson Elizabeth is back to reading terrible books so you don’t have to! This time it’s James Dobson’s Preparing for Adolescence: Straight Talk to Teens and Parents. Mad Art Lab Mad Art Cast: Lady Viagra Quickie It just so happens that one…
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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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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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