Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
Just breaking my silence for this short piece of important news — I’ve been following this case on and off during its duration — if you’ve missed the main details, there’s been a few resources that are worth reading. Thanks to Leslie Cannold for this find of a basic summary via YouTube: Dr Cannold’s Twitter [...]
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I know that there’s a few people overseas who couldn’t see this on the official site — and maybe a few people in Australia who missed the last show? So, here’s the YouTube screening of it. Contrary to Pope Benedict’s assertion that the immorality of modern society is to blame for sexual abuse of children [...]
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Sheril Kirshenbaum leads a vital blogo-spheric initiative called SILENCE IS THE ENEMY starting today, June 1st, to help a generation of young women half a world away. She says: An International Rescue Committee survey suggests 12 percent of girls aged 17 and under acknowledged having been sexually abused in some way in the previous 18 [...]
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A very useful link! From FindingAda on Twitter: The GetSETWomen database provides the media and other organisations with access to a wide variety of women, at various stages in their science, engineering and technology careers, who have registered their details and can be approached for promotional and work related opportunities. This may include speaking at [...]
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My Science is Hotter than Dr. Isis’s Naughty Monkeys Because… Yeah, monkeys can be bad. But not as bad-ass as my tango shoes. You’re saying you do science in those shoes? Science doesn’t require one to dress up pretty to get the job done. I could do a variety of things in these shoes, but [...]
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The Sacramento Bee – hat tip to Dr Kiki Sandford of The Bird’s Brain: American girls have fallen behind in science. Maybe they think science is for dorks. It can involve things such as dissecting frogs, and that can be pretty gross. Studies have suggested girls don’t have enough scientist role models. None of that [...]
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http://theedger.org/ – “Edger is a Center for Inquiry student initiative”. Edger presents hard-hitting and reasoned news, views, and event promotion on issues pertaining to secularism, atheism, science, humanism, and the cosmos, and actively promotes and celebrates international freethought activism. Written in a youthful tone, but mature in content, Edger is sure to be a driving [...]
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