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  • Quickiesfirst full color image of Martian surface from Perseverance

    Quickies: Aid to Texas, pictures from Mars, and more

    It’s the start of a new week, but I’m still reeling over the devastation in Texas. If you’d like to help, check out this list of mutual aid organizations and another city-by-city list of resources. This isn’t necessarily news, but NPR recently put up a directory of where you can get all the info about COVID vaccine distribution in your…

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  • Feminism

    Women in Secularism: Interview with Lindsay Beyerstein

    Women in Secularism 3 is coming up this May. The speakers list includes many admirable, accomplished women with whom I am humbled to be billed (including our very own Amy and Debbie). One of them is Lindsay Beyerstein, an accomplished journalist and all-around interesting person, as I found out last Skepticon. Without further ado, I present her comments on journalism, photography,…

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  • Feminism

    I Stand With Wendy

    Update (6/26/13 2:25 PST): Well, would you look at that! Governor Perry is just going to do it all again. Great. Gov. Rick Perry is calling lawmakers back immediately for another special session to deal with abortion issues, and also to consider transportation funding and new sentencing guidelines for 17-year-olds convicted of capital crimes. Unlike the last 30-day special session,…

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  • Events

    See me speaking in Dallas!

    On September 15 Dallas’ Women of Reason are hosting the next women’s freethought conference: Feminine Faces of Freethought (F3). It’s a one-day only conference featuring such freethinking women as: Noelle George, coordinator of Volunteers Beyond Belief and founder and past president of SECULAR Center; Dr. Jean Kazez, author of Animalkind, The Weight of Things, and the blog In Living Color; Elyse Anders, blogger at Skepchick, founder of Women…

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  • Nuclear Baby Will Eat Your Soul

    Thursday is the end of the world, which sucks because I’m going to pub trivia tonight and the prize is always money off your next bar tab and there’s just no way I’m getting back over that way Wednesday because that’s the big Scooper Bowl and then I have to do the podcast. I mean, maybe if the end of…

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