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Skepchick Sundaylies! Penicillin’s Monster, Morning Sickness, the Dangers of Raw Flour, and more!
Sunday Funny: What Brexit means for British science. (via PHD Comics) Mad Art Lab Fighting Penicillin’s Monster: Elizabeth Hazen and Rachel Brown In a time when fungal infections threatened to wipe out the gains in health made by penicillin, two women came to the rescue. Playing an Art Show – Aftermath Jim plays an art show and shows off his…
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Skepchick Sundaylies! LED TARDIS, Plant Remedies, and How Children See Justice
Sunday Funny: Spooky Action (via Tree Lobsters) Mad Art Lab New Mad Art Cast: What they Don’t Teach You in Art Class and a special interview with Dawn Olive of CosmoQuest The Gang talks about the skills it takes to make your art into a profession. Capping the Chromosome: Elizabeth Blackburn and the Discovery of Telomerase Dale tells the story…
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Skepchick Sundaylies! with Vibrating Spiders, Ugly Things, a “Miracle” Cure-All, and the Charter School Equivalent to #PoliceLivesMatter
Sunday Funny: The unforeseen consequences of detecting gravitational waves. (via xkcd) Mad Art Lab Ugly Things and Cosplay with Mad Art Cast The Gang talks amazing cosplay and ugly things with Ryan. Vibrating Spiders and Waggling Bees: Madeline Girard’s Multi-Modal Menagerie Dale tells us about Madeline Girard, who, among other notable discoveries, used a laser to study the mating ritual…
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It’s the Sundaylies, with a James Dobson Love Quiz, Desktop Aquariums, and Fantasy Food
Sunday Funny: Advanced Level Nonsense (via SMBC) Teen Skepchick T is for Tribulations: The Big Gendery Post Cat explains the difficulties of being transgender in the UK. Sex Ed with James Dobson: 10 Things you Didn’t Know about True Love Think you know a lot about love? Take this quiz to find out. Mad Art Lab Desktop Aquarium Challenge! Ethan…
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On Setting The “Universal Sex Difference” Bar Way Too Low
This post was co-written by Veronica Berglyd Olsen and Will Robertson. Studies about brains, gender, and sex always seem to make headlines somewhere. Recently, the Washington Post and many other news sources reported a new study that found brains don’t belong to either a distinct “male” or “female” category: instead, our brains are a big continuum or “mosaic” of features.…
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Are All Invasive Species Really So Bad?
We humans sure do like to organize things into categories. One of those category partitions is “belongs” and “doesn’t belong”. More often than not, the things we point at and say belong are the familiar things, and the ones we like. Something that’s new or different, that comes from the other shore or the other side… we feel differently about…
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Skepchick Sundaylies, with Twitter Choose Your Own Adventure, American Discipline, and Three-Headed Dogs
Sunday Funny: Human Subjects (via xkcd) Teen Skepchick Cryptophile: Cerberus Eddy explores the possibility of a real life Cerberus. Mad Art Lab Mad Art Cast — Brainwaves! Ashley takes one for the team and test drives a ‘brainwave’ enhancement product. Twitter Poll Text Adventure Ethan takes Choose Your Own Adventure stories to social media, with delightful results. The Bacteria Chlamydia…
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It’s the Sundaylies, with Wizard-Bros, Sexy Plants, Slow Scholarship, and Action Heroes!
Sunday Funny: Time to Shine (via Hark, a vagrant) Mad Art Lab Hydrogen Rules the Universe: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Composition of Stars (Women in Science 48) Dale shares the story of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, an American astronomer and trailblazer whose work was often under-appreciated. Mad Art Cast: Update on Happy Birthday, Frida Kahlo and New York Maker Faire! On this…
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