Year: 2012
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Events
EVENT! Queereka Birthday Bash!
Happy one-year birthday, Queereka! The Skepchick sister site is celebrating this Wednesday afternoon and you are invited to join them, live on the Internets! If you haven’t already checked out the blog, go now. Queereka is devoted to giving a voice to LGBTQ skeptics, providing a place for rational discussion about gender and sexuality in the skeptic and secular community…
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Skepticism
ICYMI: December 23 – December 29 on the Skepchick Network
Happy New Year’s Eve, everybody! You know the best way to gear up for 2013? By checking out what you missed over Christmas on the Skepchick Network. Then, if you’re like me, you’ll fall asleep on the couch at 9 pm. YOLO. Teen Skepchick Discovering the Real Reason for the Holiday Season Lauren experiences a “traditional” Christmas season for the…
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Quickies
Skepchick Quickies 12.31
Yesterday, Rita Levi-Montalcini, an Italian neurologist and Nobel laureate, died at the age of 103. I don’t have enough words for an adequate tribute, so read more about her here. Dear Hacker Community – We Need To Talk – A post about misogyny and sexism in the hacker community. From Amy. Amnesia and the Self That Remains When Memory Is…
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Afternoon Inquisition
Sunday AI: Horrible Puns
I have a confession to make: I LOVE PUNS. I really do. I loved this Nerdolympics pun-fest. (The Protractor Pull! Differential Equestrian! Krebs Cycling!) I love this flea illustration. There is an entire section of Cheezeburger for pun lovers like me. The holidays, for me, are when I get together with family and see who can be the most annoying…
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Religion
Happy Massacre of the Innocents Day!
Daniela (who as you all know runs Esceptica) just sent the rest of the Skepchicks this remarkable email: Subject line: Heads up Today is the Catholic equivalent of April Fools Day, so we have a post up apologizing for our radical feminazism and for criticizing evo psych. If you hear somewhere that we lost our minds, this is the reason.…
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Quickies
Skepchick Quickies 12.28
The best things Christian women told me about sex this year – “Sex and evangelical American religion have a lot in common: Both are weird and personal; both inspire prescriptive, reductive public dialogue; and both are used as conduits for ecstasy, punishment, comfort, self-satisfaction, and pain that can turn into pleasure.” Dubiously sourced survey says women prefer 1950’s era men…
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Afternoon Inquisition
AI: What are you up to this week?
I normally love this particular week at my job, as it’s my chance to file ALL THE THINGS, clean up my desktops (real and virtual), and generally sort myself out for next year. It’s quiet and most folks I do talk to for work are in a pretty festive mood. Plus, I feel like the stressful parts of the holiday,…
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Quickies
Skepchick Quickies 12.27
Scientists show that microbes from Earth can survive conditions found on Mars Belief and certainty in global warming on the rise – From CriticalDragon1177. Ivy League discriminates against Asians – The number of college age Asian-Americans has grown while the percentage of Asian students at Ivy League schools has remained the same. Tree Lobsters on statistical outliers
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