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  • Quack “Crisis Pregnancy Center” Hides $1 Million in Taxpayer Money

    Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca! Sorta transcript: I’ve talked before about crisis pregnancy centers — they’re businesses the Religious Right has set up to trick women into giving birth. I know, that sounds ridiculous when you lay it out that way, but unfortunately it’s true. The centers have an air of medical professionalism but in reality many of…

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  • Are Atheists Scared of Death?

    Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca! Sorta transcript: Researchers at Oxford University have conducted a meta-analysis in which they examined 100 studies concerning fear of death, looking for correlations with religiosity. They found some surprising results about atheists when compared to the very religious. I’ve always thought of religion as something that is so popular, in part, because it…

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  • The Feel Good Bar and Grill A Book About Robots You Can Color

    You guys! I made my first book! It’s called The Feel Good Bar and Grill and you can color it if you want! From my Book Baby page: The Feel Good Bar and Grill is a fictional, illustrated story for all ages about a robot named Lina who builds a restaurant on the moon Enceladus. The Feel Good Bar and…

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  • Should We Kill Sharks to Save Humans?

    Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca! Sorta transcript: It may be blizzarding this week on the East Coast, but here in California it’s basically summer, and I could not be happier. Summer means more time outside hiking, biking, and swimming, some of my personal favorite activities. It also means surfing, though to be fair, winter also means surfing, because…

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  • The Great Escape and Away We Go

    Art is the great escape and I need an escape. I’ve had enough of Trump and his budget cuts to science, the elderly, the arts, the humanities, kid’s school lunches, the environment, meals on wheels, the list goes on. Basically, he is cutting everything that isn’t the military so he can live like a king while bombing mosques, building walls,…

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  • Ben Carson Wants to Drill a Hole in Your Head

    Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca! Sorta transcript: There are a lot of scary things happening right now in the United States government, but perhaps the absolute worst is our secretary of housing and urban development running amok threatening to drill holes in people’s heads and forcing them to recite books they read 60 years ago. Even if they’re…

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    Rep. Steve King: Proud White Supremacist

    On Sunday, US Congressman Steve King (R-IA) retweeted the anti-immigrant fake news account Voice of Europe, adding his own white supremacist take on the original tweet: @SteveKingIA: “Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny. We can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies.” @V_of_Europe: “Hundreds of Islamists shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Wilders is right for…

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  • Bad Chart Thursday: Pseudoscientific Chart Judges Science Reporting

    A chart purporting to rank credible science journalism uses the most unscientific means ever: opinion presented as fact. Editors for the American Council of Science and Health (ACSH), an industry-funded “science” site, and Real Clear Science (RCS), a news aggregator with some original material, co-created and published a chart using a design aesthetic beloved by marketers of online pyramid schemes…

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