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#ClimateFacts Tweetstorm at POTUS Jan. 26, Noon Eastern Time
The Trump administration and some members of Congress are intent on misinforming the public on climate change and acting on these lies in a storm of decisions that will damage our planet, our economy, and our future, from withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accord and moving forward with the Keystone pipeline to the gag order on the EPA, particularly on…
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It’s the Skepchick Sundaylies! Slicing Through Fake News, Fighting for Truth in the Age of Trump, Toys Dressed for Lab Work, and more!
Sunday Funny: The Math Professor’s Lemma. (via SMBC) Mad Art Lab Fake News? Take a Razor to It. Amy’s art reminds us that the simplest explanation for something is often the best explanation. Astronomy Cast Podcraft and Review Ryan makes a replica of the golden record on board the Voyager space probes. Science is Not the Enemy Important reminder: Despite…
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Skepchick Sundaylies! Encryption in Literature, the Blackest Black, Teaching Syrian Refugees, and the Relationship Between Birth Month and ADHD
Sunday Funny: The secret to happiness. (via SMBC) Teen Skepchick Encryption in Literature: Dancing Men (Spoilers) Elizabeth discusses the encrypted messages in “The Adventure of the Dancing Men.” Mad Art Lab Sketchbook Pages and the Power of Friendship Celia draws to counter presidential election drudgery. Mad Art Cast #SciArt and the Blackest Black with Glendon Mellow The Gang talks science…
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Featured
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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Skepchick Sundaylies! with Egyptian Pyramids, Cuttlefish, Teaching as a “Calling,” and Immunotherapy
Sunday Funny: The Coxcomb (via Hark, a vagrant) Teen Skepchick Science Sunday: Why We can Feel Confident that the Egyptian Pyramids were not Granaries Elizabeth explains why the Egyptian pyramids would be pretty bad at grain storage. Mad Art Lab Cuttlefish in the Home Aquarium Part 1 and Part 2 Ethan lets us in on the many adventures in keeping…
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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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Anti-Science
Muslim Science-Loving Kid Comes Out On Top, Infuriates White Atheists
The brave and brilliant youngster Ahmed Mohamed has been showered with support since his ludicrous and racist arrest this week, receiving invitations to MIT, Harvard, NASA, Facebook, Twittter, and the White House, to name a few. (It’s important to note that the police who arrested him and the school who saw fit to punish him for a science project have…
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Activism
[Cross-Post] Follow The Money: Why You Can’t Trust the EWG’s Ethically-Challenged Sunscreen Guide
Ed’s Note: Today’s cross-post was written by Jenny Splitter at Grounded Parents. If you want to leave a comment, click through the link at the bottom to go to the full post. ****** It’s hard to find a more successful and widely accepted fear-mongering campaign than the Environmental Working Group’s annual Sunscreen Guide. Every year, the EWG “shames” sunscreens made with scary-sounding ingredients like…
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