Skepchick Quickies 4.2

• Famed neurosurgeon happens to be a Young Earth Creationist. Did I mention he was slated to give the commencement address at Emory University? Turns out that 500 profs and alums were not having any of it. {via CriticalDragon}
• From the Skepchick Travelogue: the Gate to Hell was discovered in Turkey. This is the new hot vacation spot! {via Will}
• Free & Open Source Software is offering internships in an Outreach Program for Women. Applications are “open to anyone who identifies as a woman regardless of gender presentation or assigned sex at birth.” {via Brian F.}
• Here’s an awesome development: the GZA teaches high school kids to embrace science. It’s kind of a natural progression from Schoolhouse Rock! {via Rebecca}
• April Fool’s gag story about WisCon requiring all attendees to wear burqas was taken down. Boo hoo. {via Anna}
• It’s no secret that Mary Cassatt’s influence in the Impressionist movement has been tragically underplayed. Dusting off her work from 1878 to 1898, the New York Public Library has mounted an exhibition that will be on view until June 23, 2013 – Daring Methods: The Prints of Mary Cassatt.
• Touted as the next big nutrition trend: the Paleocow diet. Not sure what supermarket carries Auroch.
• Michelle Shocked continues to go over the waterfall. Simultaneously appalling and sad. {via Steve D.}
• Awwww… “Buckwild” star Shain Gandee is dead. {via Mary B.}
• A Giant Elephant Bird Egg is up for auction. Here’s hoping a museum can foot the expected bill of 45 grand. {via CriticalDragon}
• Yesterday’s comic- still good. Captain’s Lament. {via Mark H.}

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We can’t stop laughing over this one.

Bold Yet Sassy

{via Mary B.}

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Featured image is Susan Seated Before a Row of Trees by Mary Cassatt. Etching and drypoint, ca. 1883. Samuel Putnam Avery Collection.

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