Quickies
Quickies: Taxonomists, being an atheist in a fundamentalist country, and animal relatives
- As species decline so do the scientists who name them – Taxonomists are getting more and more rare.
- 6 horrors of being an atheist in a fundamentalist country – By an atheist who grew up in Bangladesh.
- Rbutr app points you to rebuttals of articles – For all those Fox news articles your uncle sends you or just to keep track of discussions across the internet. From Shane.
- Relative sizes of animal relatives – I’m not sure what’s cooler, the tiny parrot or the enormous moth.
I sent in the article about Bangladesh. I mean, I’ll admit I used to have a condescending attitude to “Twitter activists”. (Mostly because I still have small scars on my arms from when acid was thrown on me.) But in a totalitarian state, I can see Twitter’s value (though, like the anonymous author, I prefer platforms that allow more than 140 bytes). And, of course, they will find out, but social media are the only option in those countries.
That 30 cm moth is pretty awesome.