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Will the Ocean Cleanup Project Clean Our Seas of Plastic?
Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca! Sorta transcript: A teenager came up with a plan to rid the ocean of the huge amount of plastic floating around in it, and everybody is super excited and giving him millions of dollars despite the fact that there’s probably not a chance in hell the plan is going to work. Get ready…
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Nobel Laureate Wishes Girls Would Stop Crying/Falling in Love with Him
Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca! Sorta transcript: Nobel Laureate and official knight of the British realm Sir Tim Hunt is in the news for telling a bunch of female scientists in Korea that “girls” in labs are bad news because of three things: they fall in love with Hunt, he falls in love with them, and they cry.…
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Dr. Ruth Thinks Men are Monsters
Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca! Dr. Ruth is the 87-year old sex columnist who has been dispensing mostly common sense and scientifically accurate advice to people for the past several decades. That run has come to an end this week when she went on the record as believing that the Jewish holy text the Talmud has guided her…
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The Pope has Santorum on his Hands about Global Warming Denial
Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca! Sorta transcript: A prominent American politician this week publicly called out The Pope, telling him quote “The church has gotten it wrong a few times on science, and I think that we probably are better off leaving science to the scientists.” What a refreshing change from the usual! I can’t possibly think of…
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Swiss Cheese and the VERY NATURE OF REALITY ITSELF
Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca! Sorta transcript: Researchers from two different disciplines came up with two very interesting new discoveries about holes this week. In Switzerland, agricultural scientists discovered the possible cause of holes in Swiss cheese. Past research has suggested it was due to bacteria, but new data suggest that it’s actually due to tiny bits of…
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Charlie Charlie: The Science of Summoning Demons with Pencils for Fun and Profit
Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca! Sorta transcript: Charlie, Charlie is a newly popular game in which people film themselves summoning a demon using two pencils and a piece of paper. I have to say, this is such an improvement over demon summoning when I was a kid, when you had to use at least four crystals and a…
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Scientific Fraud: Gay Marriage Study Retracted
Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca! Sorta transcript: The popular radio show and podcast This American Life recently publicized what appeared to be an astounding piece of research that was published in the journal Science: two political scientists named Michael LaCour and Donald Green sent out thousands of surveys to gauge people’s opinions on various issues. They then had…
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Siouxsie Wiles Talks LEGO and Gender at TEDx!
Official Friend of Skepchick and talented biologist Siouxsie Wiles recently gave an excellent talk at TEDx in Auckland, New Zealand, in which she gives an overview of what has happened to LEGO over the past few decades. The talk is complete with LEGO-made charts, made with the help of her awesome daughter Eve. Enjoy!
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