Quickies
Skepchick Quickies 2.1
- Most teachers are lukewarm at best on evolution – From Mark.
- Debunking the myths about race and abortion – “The increasingly popular rhetoric among anti-abortion activists boils down to this: Abortion is like slavery, because slaves were dehumanized. Abortion providers are racist and want there to be fewer black children in the world.”
- Carl Sagan and his fully armed spaceship of the imagination – From Justin.
- Space Pickle is poly – Celestial teapot, not so much.
The evolution story is so sad, and a perfect example of the chilling effect.
28% are doing their jobs correctly
13% are stupid gits
60% are so afraid of fundies they refuse to correctly teach, a job they are being paid to perform
101% proves that math is wrong. ;)
On the race story:
Rick Santorum is an idiot bigot. This is news?
Love the Carl Sagan comic. Can’t help noticing the astrology ship looks like a Klingon Warbird.
@mrmisconception: He’s also an asshole…but he’s what everyone should consider to be “old news” in any case.
Some students have much bigger problems than teachers who are soft on pseudo-science.
Pakistani arrested for ‘blasphemous’ exam answer
OH FSM YES, the Sagan comic! That just made my day.
Homeopathic Medicine Ray isn’t that just a water cannon?
@davo_301: No, that would be a Homeopathic Particle Beam weapon. The HMR is the dehydrated version. It transmits the quantum vibrations of the water memory on a subspace carrier tachyonic field. (I.E. there’s nothing there.) But the good news for the Astrology Starship is the weaker the HMR, the nore effective it is. Since the strength varies inversely with the square of the distance, missed shots can easily destroy galactic superclusters at gigaparsec ranges.
Sorry, snow day… Once you get started on this stuff, it’s hard to stop. My friend and I spent the afternoon inventing a new Super Complementary Alternative Medicine based on string theory and the ancient wisdom of the Incas. It involves eating long thin foods like spaghetti, shredded pork, carrot sticks, shoe string potatoes and lemon grass. It ties in with Pad Thai and Nazca Lines, which are also long and thin.
I had no where else to put this, but I am in utter amazement right now.
I have never seen a blizzard like this…
WITH LIGHTNING.
@mrmisconception: I know what you mean. The wind is really chilly here in SoCal :)
Haha, that Carl Sagan comic was awesomepants! He said ‘gloomy’. ^^