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More Women Regret Having Kids Than Aborting Them
Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca! Sorta transcript: A new study published in PLOS ONE has found that 99% of women who have had abortions report that in retrospect, the abortion was the right decision for them at the time. 99%! This is only news because conservative Christian anti-choice advocates are constantly trying to convince women that they’re going…
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Surfer Mick Fanning was NOT Attacked by a Shark
This morning, the World Surf League event at J-Bay in South Africa saw one of the most incredible things to ever happen during a live pro surfing broadcast: finalist Mick Fanning encountering what appeared to be at least one very large shark. The video is incredible, as you can see Mick turn just as the shark’s dorsal fin breaks the…
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Teens Invent Color-Changing Condoms??? (NOPE)
Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca! I recently stumbled across a Buzzfeed article headlined “These Teens Just Invented A Condom That Changes Color If You Have An STD”, which would be truly amazing if it were at all true. Unfortunately, saying they invented an STD-detecting condom would be the same as me saying I just invented a tiny American…
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Right Wing Extremists More Deadly than Al Qaeda in the US
Support more videos like this at http://patreon.com/rebecca! New America, an organization in Washington, DC, has just released a study showing that extreme right wing terrorists have launched more attacks in the United States since September 11 than Islamic terrorists. And by “released a study” I mean they counted the attacks and said, “Hey, look.” The problem with any comparison like…
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Stan Lee: Spider-Man Should Be White
Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca! Sorta transcript: Stan Lee is perhaps best known for starting Marvel Comics and turning it into the powerhouse it is today, and if not for that than for being that old guy who shows up in every superhero movie to make nerds clap their hands with delight as though they’re in on some…
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CDC: Red Eyes after Swimming is Thanks to Pee in the Pool AGGGHHH GROSS
Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca! Sorta transcript: The United States Centers for Disease Control, or CDC, has released its annual healthy swimming report, and hold on to your butts…literally…because they’ve revealed that the strong pool smell you associate with chlorine is actually the smell of pee in the pool. Ditto those red, irritated eyes you blame on the…
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RIP Anne Nicol Gaylor, Badass Feminist and Atheist
Donate to the Women’s Medical Fund here. Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca. Sorta transcript: On Monday, the world lost an amazing woman: Anne Nicol Gaylor, who co-founded the Freedom from Religion Foundation and the Women’s Medical Fund. She was an outspoken feminist and atheist who believed that religion was one of the greatest forces keeping women oppressed and…
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Philae and the Failure of Solar Power
Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca Sorta transcript: Huge news this week! Philae, the little lander that could, came back to life and started communicating with Earth. If you’ll recall, in November of last year the Rosetta mission successfully landed a robot on a comet for the first time ever. Or I should say, “somewhat successfully.” There were a…
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