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It’s the Skepchick Sundaylies! Doctor Who/Star Wars Mash-Up, Teaching the Presidential Election, Donald Trump Art, and more!
Sunday Funny: Rosetta (via xkcd) Mad Art Lab Mad Art Cast Episode #70 — A Has Questions A gets her creativity questions answered. The Making of Obi Wan Tenobi Ryan had a clever idea that got totally out of control. Trump Words Celia finally figures out how to make art out of Donald Trump. School of Doubt If You’re That…
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Skepchick Sundaylies! The Definitive Guide to Comment Trolls, the Sokal Hoax, Bumbling Dad/Nagging Mom, and more!
Sunday Funny: Spaceship Earth (via Poorly Drawn Lines) Mad Art Lab Guide to Internet Comment Trolls This comic by Ethan perfectly summarizes the different types of internet trolls. Mad Art Cast: Finding Hidden Faces In Paintings The Gang talk about whether it’s OK to use technology to look under paintings. Cat Wine Tasting: It Happened to Us If you’ve never…
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Skepchick Sundaylies! The Genius Behind Einstein’s Work, the Crisis Facing Trans Kids, Children’s Digital World, and more!
Sunday Funny: Wrong. (via xkcd) Mad Art Lab Erasing Mileva Mari?-Einstein, The Woman Behind Einstein’s Math Dale tells the story of the brilliant mathematical mind behind Einstein’s work. School of Doubt Bathrooms: For Trans Students Who have Considered Suicide when the Rainbow is Not Enough School should not be scary for trans students, writes new contributor aswetz. Grounded Parents We…
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It’s the Skepchick Sundaylies! The Universality of Music, Ghosting, Student Politics, and more!
Sunday Funny: Purity. (via SMBC) Teen Skepchick Suspension of Disbelief: In Which Silly Women are Managed by Men, Florence Foster Jenkins (the Movie) Elizabeth was disappointed in the biopic of Florence Foster Jenkins. Mad Art Lab Mad Art Cast: Tsimané and What Makes Music Good The Gang talks about music and musical preferences. Skepchick Svensk The Ghosts are Everywhere (på…
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It’s the Skepchick Sundaylies! MAL at Dragon Con, the Bad Science of Trepanation, Race in the Classroom, and more!
Sunday Funny: Linear Regression (via xkcd) Mad Art Lab Wither: The Many Triumphs and Long Fall of Nuclear Physicist Harriet Brooks. (Women in Science 71) Dale tells of a career that burned bright for too short a time. Mad Art Lab at Dragon Con! Stop by these MAL panels at Dragon Con! Canadian Content Jim matches fake Canadian novel premises…
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Skepchick Sundaylies! #safetyfirst, 350,000 Stars, the Status of English, and more!
Sunday Funny: A Good Thing (via Poorly Drawn Lines) Mad Art Lab It’s #safetyfirst, #sexysecond Insufficient safety gear isn’t the only thing that’s wrong with this picture. She Filled the Sky: The Iron Astronomy of Annie Jump Cannon This ground-breaking astronomer made sense of stars during her more than four decades at the Harvard Observatory. 2nd Thing I Learned: Unsolicited…
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School of Doubt is looking for writers!
School of Doubt is looking for more writers! The gig requires a moderate time commitment and offers no pay, except for–should you defeat the Iron Chef–the people’s ovation and fame forever. So, what are we looking for in a candidate? At a minimum, applicants should be educators (whether as instructors or administrators in traditional institutions or as less formal teachers, tutors, or producers of…
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It’s the Skepchick Sundaylies! Space Image Editing for Dummies, Illness Caused by Emotions, and more!
Sunday Funny: Truth and Politics (via SMBC) Mad Art Lab Mad Art Cast Pigment The Gang discuss the Forbe’s Collection of pigments and how science uses it to protect historical masterpieces. Raw Space Image Editing for Dummies Julie teaches herself how to edit raw space images. WIP Weekend – Beachy Necklace Part 2 Robin learns to see the beauty in…
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