Science
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Skepticism
ICYMI: July 15-July 21 on the Skepchick Network
Good morning! Or afternoon. Or night. Look, I don’t know where you live. I just know that you should really catch up on what went on last week on the Skepchick Network. You won’t be able to keep up on Twitter, otherwise. And we all know that is the pinnacle of human achievement. Teen Skepchick Science Sunday: Dino Feathers Ali…
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Quickies
Skepchick Quickies 7.9
More woo for your pet in the EasyDefense Flea Tag. “It does not use traditional energy forms like electrical, chemical, thermal, magnetic, or radioactive.” It uses your imagination! Thanks to Amanda for bringing this crap to our attention. Australia’s Girl Guides remove “God, Queen, and country” from their pledge. From Robert. Romney campaign Venn Diagram fail. From William Irreplaceable dinosaur skeleton destroyed in…
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Quickies
Skepchick Quickies 7.2
Good morn… errrr, afternoon folks in the Skepchick-verse. Hey, you all know I’m an astronomer, right? I am belatedly taking over the Quickies for a bit while Mary goes off saving the universe from hostile aliens bent on enslaving the human race. Seriously, our work is never done. Hope you enjoy your fresh, hot serving of quickies! A mass exodus…
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Feminism
Why “Pinkifying” Science Does More Harm Than Good
It’s a tough fight, trying to keep girls and women interested in and doing science. So it’s extremely sad when a well meaning campaign makes the entire scientific community sick to its collective stomach. I present to you: “Science, it’s a Girl Thing!” And here is the teaser video, in all its glory… Elyse sums it up quite nicely if…
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Science
Bang Zoom to the Moon!
Greetings, my fellow travelers on this tiny little planet. We received an interesting question here on Skepchick about the formation of the Moon. I got a little busy with the whole dissertation-writing thing, but I’m back to tell you about the somewhat violent formation of the Earth’s famous natural satellite. Here is the question from Barry: So I was watching…
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Science
Join the Million Crater Challenge and win Prizes
Xposted from Mad Art Lab. It's global astronomy month and our pal Pamela Gay in cooperation with CosmoQuest wants you to know about a very cool amateur astronomy project. Not only will this project allow you to do some actual science but it can net you some pretty sweet prizes too. So what’s the deal? It’s global astronomy month! And CosmoQuest…
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Skepticism
Where Are All the Aliens?
When I was a teenager, I was convinced that aliens were here. It seemed completely plausible to my 13-year-old self that humanoid creatures from other planets could be visiting us in strange, saucer-like spacecraft. After all, look at all these people on the internet! They can’t be lying! There may have been some influence from my obsession with David Duchovny…
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Parenting
Engineers and Illiterates team up for SCIENCE!
“When I get down [inside my head]… The marbles start turning and I start seeing shapes and getting a rhythm of things. That’s science to me.” – Steven Tyler Imagine a science experiment where you get to take a bunch of monkeys who do sign language, give them marijuana and ask them to explain science. It’s a pretty amazing scientific…
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