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A Tale of Two Titties 26 Aug 2013 | 08:30 pm
Months ago, when I mentioned GaymerX at an atheist meetup, someone posited what I’m sure was thought to be a simple, well-meant question: “Why a separate gay con? Why not attend Comic-Con?” I didn’t ...
ICYMI: August 18 – August 24 on the Skepchick Network 26 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
Teen Skepchick The ‘Schism’ in Skepticism A smaller skeptics movement sans misogynists is OK with Lux. Suspension of Disbelief: The World’s End Eddy reviews the last installment of Simon Pegg’s an...
Why Did Almost All Answers on Quora Make My Head Explode? (Part Last) 26 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
Welcome to the final installment of “WTF is wrong with you, Slate? Why are you posting this crap?” If you haven’t already, you may want to read parts one and two. Let’s get right into the last three ...
Skepchick Quickies 8.26 26 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
On August 26, 1791, John Fitch was granted a US patent for the steamboat. Without this invention, I wouldn’t be humming “Proud Mary” right now. Or maybe I would, and it would be about a speedboat or s...
Let’s write a new Samsung Ad! 26 Aug 2013 | 04:11 am
Redditors don’t like this Samsung ad. I don’t like it. It had CNET asking ‘Is this the worst as Samsung’s ever made?‘ and Mashable wondering ‘Why Is This Samsung Ad So Terrible?‘. Gawker says ‘This I...
Skepchick Book Club: The Great Agnostic 25 Aug 2013 | 10:49 pm
Note: The bottom of this post contains information for next month’s book club. Welcome back to the Skepchick Book Club! This month, we read The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American Freethoug...
Why Did Almost All Answers on Quora Make My Head Explode? (Part Two) 25 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
Yesterday, I wrote about an absurd question which was answered on Quora and cross-posted to Slate, increasing the internet’s exposure to faulty, mythical beliefs about human nature by probably at leas...
Hi, I’m Sarah! 24 Aug 2013 | 11:29 pm
Hi! I’m new around here. For those of you who didn’t read my disability column that Elyse posted for me, or haven’t hung out on twitter enough to see my various observations/complaints/arguments with ...
Global Quickies: 24/08/13 24 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
Welcome back to Global Quickies, your weekly world news roundup! GERMANY Starting next November, Germany will introduce a third gender option on birth certificates and will allow people to opt out o...
Why Did Almost All Questions on Quora Make My Head Explode? (Part One) 24 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
Over on Slate, there is an article that was cross-posted from an answer to this question on Quora’s Feminism category: “Why did almost all societies believe that women were inferior to men?” Quora is ...
