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Little Kitten – Skepticism Through Manga

by podblack on May 11, 2010

Sara E. Mayhew, who recently featured on a fantastic episode of the Skepticality podcast! Here’s the first of three videos on her lecture. Part Two and Part Three here!

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Go check out the entire sequence at Skeptic North! And if you haven’t already, go listen to the Skepticality interview, ‘Skepticism and Manga’ with the artist, Sara E. Mayhew!

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Sara Mayhew Brilliance!

by podblack on February 27, 2009

Check out the Death in the Skies cartoon! She also features on TED.

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20th Carnival of Feminist SF – The Diamond Age

by podblack on February 8, 2008

(This 20th Carnival of Feminism and Science Fiction is brought to you by Podblack.com with sincere apologies to and acknowledgment of the book by Neal Stephenson) The brilliant nanotechnological neurobook, the illicit, magical device crammed with folklore, science and arts, designed to teach young women how to think for themselves about the world around them [...]

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Year of the Black Cat

by podblack on January 1, 2008

Why not? Chinese New Year begins on February 7th, with 2008 being the Year of the Rat. But I like to think of Tohru in Fruits Basket, who rejects the prejudice against the cat being a member of the zodiac and her choice to bond with the unlucky fire-haired Kyo. In many ways it follows [...]

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