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Quickies
Quickies: Helping each other, understanding data, and empathy…
Hello, friends! This weekend I finished the Impossible Semester, so I look forward to putting the Cute Animal Fridays BACK on actual Fridays. For now, here are some good reads from the week. As we struggle through *WAVES ARMS* all this, CNN has a list of places where you can give or get help with charitable organizations. Via Muscadine I…
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Quickies
Quickies: 99% of women don’t regret their abortion…
It’s the first week of classes for me, which means I’m basically brain dead by this point and I have no actual idea what’s going on in the world. But I’ll try anyway… First long term study of women’s feelings about abortion say that five years after the procedure, 99% of women still say it was the right decision, and…
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Meta Stuff
It’s the Skepchick Sundaylies! Magical Resistance, Creating an RPG, and the Changing Face of Critical Thinking
Sunday Funny: What biologists do. (via Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal) Mad Art Lab Resisto Tyrannus Your new Harry Potter-inspired resistance slogan. Superhero RPG Design Diary 1 Ryan has been developing a superhero role-playing game and is letting us in on his process. Better Know a Herpetologist Ethan interviews herpetologist Keely “HK” Smith. School of Doubt Critical Thinking: Then and Now…
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Activism
Wake Me Up When Impeachment Begins
I sat up until about 3 am last night trying to think of a way to illustrate the repeal and replacement plan for the ACA health care in the United States. It’s so ridiculous and unfair to the people who need heath care most. Costs will go from $1,700 up to $14,000 a year for people over 64 who make…
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It’s the Skepchick Sundaylies! Non-Christian Scouts, Staying Strong, and a Free Press
Sunday Funny: Endangered Species: Protect’em all! (via Bird and Moon) Teen Skepchick The Atheist Promise | Modernising Scouts Non-Christian alternatives don’t mean anything if no one knows about them. Mad Art Lab Nolite te bastardes carborundorum Amy makes art inspired by Margaret Atwood’s disturbingly relevant novel from 1985. Trump Bans Press that Reports Facts He Doesn’t Like A free press…
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It’s the Skepchick Sundaylies! Body Positivity, Special Snowflakes, the Hufflepuff Hero We Deserve, and more!
Sunday Funny: A full calendar. (via PHD Comics) Teen Skepchick Shower Thoughts on Body Positivity Alice thinks about the body positivity movement and wonders, Why do women have to be beautiful? Medical Monochromatic Fashion, an Evolution The sartorial choices of physicians though the years Mad Art Lab For the Snowflakes Amy makes art for all you special snowflakes out there.…
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Activism
This.
Things are scary in the USA right now and it’s easy to get overwhelmed by the constant barrage of executive orders and new laws soon to be affecting human rights and health particularly for women, but a few good activists have told me to pick just a few topics and focus on them so I don’t get overwhelmed. I’m going…
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