Skepchick Sundaylies: “Poorly Written, Abusive Erotica,” Racist Color Names, Scottish Independence, and Boy/Girl Sleepovers
Sunday Funny: Love Your Body (HT: io9) and Writing Skills (via xkcd)
The Physics Philes, lesson 112: Sea Shell Resonance
Why do hear the ocean in sea shells? Physics, of course!
50 Shades of Fail: Chapter 2 Yeah Uh, I totally Love DIY, Yeah Ha Ha Ha, This Isn’t Wildly Inappropriate at All.
“Come with me and you’ll see a world of poorly written, abusive eroticaaaaa.”
ATLAS Soared: Fabiola Gianotti and the Discovery of a Higgs Particle (Women In Science 19)
Dale profiles physicist and coordinator of the ATLAS project at the LHC, Fabiola Gianotti.
What’s in a Color Name? Racism.
“Skin tone? What’s the big deal? We all have one!”
Mad Cats!
The cats of Mad Art Lab.
Scottish Independence Part 1: The How and the Why
Scotland is voting on Independence on September 18th. Alasdair will be showing us the arguments on both sides in this multi-part series.
Modeling Professionalism
In light of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne’s withdrawing an accepted job offer over the candidate’s harsh online criticism of Israel, Apostrophobia wonders how we are to distinguish between civility and professionalism.
Wikipedia 1, U Chicago News Office 0
A recent video on music and mathematics released by the University of Chicago gets some basic facts very, very wrong. Dan explains.
WTF Cure: The Cutler Protocol
Deek talks about Dr. Andrew Cutler, a charlatan promoting chelation “cures” for autistic kids.
Boy/Girl Sleepovers? What’s the Big Deal?
Cassandra’s 11-year-old daughter wanted to invite her 12-year-old male friend over for a sleepover, but his mom said no because “boys and girls your age do not do sleepovers.” Is there really a problem?
While We Dump Ice Water, Here’s What England Is Doing: The 100,000 Genomes Project
Kavin brings up a good point: how many people doing the ice water challenge are actually pro-genomic research?
Featured image credit: Todd Mecklem via Flickr
Your blurbs always make my pieces sound so good! Thanks!
Credit where credit’s due, only some of the blurbs are mine. You can thank the other admins for most of them.
cool, then thanks Dan (I presume)!
Yes, it’s usually me. You’re welcome!
Fifty Shades of consumerist, greedy, manipulative, rape-fantasizing…
From Gone With the Wind, through horrible Ayn Rand rapist-as-hero tropes, via Harlequin bodice-rippers, to 50 sades, Ooops; SHADES. There is something revolting about the way this tripe is written and consumed by women.
I know it’s wrong, but the headline “Poorly written, abusive erotica” made me laugh. Possibly because I imagined it as the actual title of a book.
Sorry, I finally got to writing about the Salaita incident. Since Salaita claims to represent me, the least I could do is write about it. It should be mentioned that one of the tweets could be interpreted as a death threat: “I wish all these fucking settlers would just go missing.”
To put in some context, a few months ago, three American tourists, all Jews, were abducted and murdered, and the Israeli government simply said they were missing. The usual right-wingers retaliated, murdering a fourth American tourist, this one a Palestinian.
Had Salaita been approved, he would’ve been working with Joy Harjo, who has endured harassment from BDS before.