GMOs
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Quickies
Quickies: Vaccines, Bananas, and Impostor Syndrome
Happy end of semester to MEEEE! 14+ months of pandemic teaching is finally behind me and I get a BREAK finally. (Where Break = time to do research and other things I had to set aside because I have a 3-3 teaching load but you already knew that.) Here are a few good reads that have come across my feed…
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The Sundaylies! Ant Hill Art, Diversity Statements, and the Grounded Parents Podcast
Sunday Funny: Young Scientists vs. Old Scientists (via SMBC) Teen Skepchick Sex Ed with James Dobson: In Which Masturbation is Kind of OK, but Extramarital Sex will Send us Straight to Hell Elizabeth finally gets to the sex part of James Dobson’s sex ed book. Mad Art Lab Of Art and Ant Hills MAL’s newest contributor Julie Mars discusses the…
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Free Chapter 1 Download of “Fear Babe: Shattering Vani Hari’s Glass House”
Have you heard of famous food activist Vani Hari? You know, the blogger and New York Times bestselling author also known as “The Food Babe”, who abhors biotechnology, thinks sugar is “toxic”, and is famous for berating Starbucks’ Pumpkin Spice Latte for, *gasp*, containing “no real pumpkin”, and bullying Subway for using so-called “yoga mat chemical” in its bread?…
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We Need Your Help to Reach Anti-GMO Celebs
I’m going to assume that you’ve all heard one or more of these names: Gwyneth Paltrow, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ginnifer Goodwin, Sarah Gilbert, Jillian Michaels, Jordana Brewster. I’d imagine that lots of you are fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Big Love and The Royal Tenenbaums, or grew up watching Sarah Gilbert play Darlene on Roseanne. These women are pop culture…
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It’s the Sundaylies! With Honeybee Sex, Eggplant Recipe, and Combating Fear with Facts
Sunday Funny: Issues (via Poorly Drawn Lines) Teen Skepchick Bird’s Do It, Bees Do It Even- Wait?! How Exactly Do Bees Do It??? Alice explains the sex shenanigans of honeybees. Mad Art Lab Mad Art Cast: Happy Birthday Quickie Should the song “Happy Birthday” be in the public domain? Of Fae and Fungi Chris teaches us about the folklore of…
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It’s the Skepchick Sundaylies, with James Dobson’s Sex Ed, Lady Viagra, Spaced Repetition System, and Breastfeeding Myths
Sunday Funny: Supernatural Selection. (via Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal) Teen Skepchick New Book Series! Sex Ed with James Dobson Elizabeth is back to reading terrible books so you don’t have to! This time it’s James Dobson’s Preparing for Adolescence: Straight Talk to Teens and Parents. Mad Art Lab Mad Art Cast: Lady Viagra Quickie It just so happens that one…
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Science
Kavin Can’t Even Allergy Edition: Go Home, GMO Inside. You’re Fear Mongering
I know I haven’t given you a #KavinCantEven in a few weeks. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, “Kavin Can’t Even” is a regular-ish column in which I present my reaction to disturbing science gaffes from the vast internet quagmire of unscientific debris. I also delight or horrify my readers with pictures of me making various incredulous facial expressions. Fortunately…
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Skepchick Sundaylies, with Orange is the New Black, Women on Money, and Nuclear Shell Theory
Sunday Funny: Saint Cecilia, Dying (via Hark! A Vagrant.) Mad Art Lab Quantizing the Nucleus: Maria Goeppert-Mayer and the Creation of Nuclear Shell Theory “How does radioactive decay know when to stop? When Uranium-238 breaks up, it goes through twenty-two intermediate isotopes before finally coming to rest at Lead-206, but why remain there? What’s so special about Lead-206, or Calcium-48,…
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