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Skepticism
Can the Government Control Hurricanes?
Last week was pretty rough here in the Bay Area, with absolutely astonishingly high temperatures for eight straight days. From September 30 to October 6, the average temperature in San Francisco was 90.3F, or 32.4C. The usual temperature during that period is 70F, or 21C. And San Francisco is one of the coolest cities in the Bay – here in…
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How Bats & Vultures Save Human Lives
A few years ago, my partner and I were under COVID lockdown both working from home in a 1-bedroom apartment. We were lucky enough to have the means to have saved up enough to finally buy a house, so we moved to the suburbs. I didn’t love the idea of being outside of a walkable neighborhood but I quickly fell…
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The Good News & Bad News of Measles and Whooping Cough
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! I have some bad news and some good news and some bad news about the spread of deadly diseases right now. The first bad news is that I’m not talking about COVID-19. Because wouldn’t it be nice if COVID was…
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“Blue Zones”: Are People Living Longer or Just Committing More Fraud?
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! It’s finally time for the greatest event on the annual scientific calendar: the Ig Nobels. You may be aware of the Nobel Prize, which is prestigious, yes, but pointedly boring. The IG Nobels, though, are both prestigious AND a lot…
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Keanu Reeves Got Duped by a Pseudoscientist
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Quick: name an archaeologist! Ah ah, hold on…a REAL archaeologist. Yeah, not so easy now, is it? I ask this because I myself would have to pause and hem and haw a bit before finally coming up with Louis and…
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How Dave Grohl & Foo Fighters Put Actual Lives at Risk
Last week, Dave Grohl, the lead singer of the popular rock band Foo Fighters and former drummer of Nirvana, posted an Instagram text screenshot explaining that he had been cheating on his wife and knocked up his affair partner. Now I know that many of you currently have three questions in your head: why should you care, why do I…
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Innocent Man to be Executed over Junk Science
Several US state governments are about to murder people using taxpayer dollars. Nope, not “indirectly” in the way they’ve been doing, with abortion bans, lax gun laws, or crappy public health policies, but as directly as it’s possible to murder a person: by knowingly and intentionally filling their veins with poison. That’s right, we’re talking about the death penalty today,…
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The Comedy & Tragedy of Donald Trump’s Nazi Lies
So, a few days ago I finished a video about the idiotic rightwing lie that the Hells Angels were going to Aurora, Colorado to fight a Venezuelan street gang. Sorry I just need a moment to accept that that’s a sentence a person can say in the year of our lord 2024. When I finished it, I decided I had…
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