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Scott Walker Wants to Charge Protesters to Protest in State Capitol
UK: Who’s Afraid of Sex Education?
Elizabeth Warren Surges Ahead of Scott Brown In New Poll
A brief rant about waist-to-hip ratio
This past Sunday, I blogged about the Apple iPhone's Siri, and her noticeable lack of knowledge regarding abortion, contraception, and reproductive health in general.
Additional, that you may not have seen in other articles: Birth control, EC, and rape queries were all similarly useless
Apple Blames Glitch for Siri’s Anti-Abortion Bias -- Gee, that's an oddly specific "glitch".
New Government Data Finds Sharp Decline in Teen Births: Increased Contraceptive Use and Shifts to More Effective Contraceptive Methods Behind this Encouraging Trend
Going to the Lady Doc -- On being fat-shamed at the doctor's office (and how it can lead to people avoiding care)
Occupying Reproductive Justice
Neandertals are stumping for bragging rights as the first builders of mammoth-bone structures, an accomplishment usually attributed to Stone Age people.
Scientology Held Woman Aboard the Freewinds for 12 Years Against Her Will
Threats from The Burzynski Clinic (to a teen skeptic)
More: Stanislaw, Streisand and Spartacus
More: A look at the Burzynski clinic’s publications
Edmund Scientifics responds to feedback on girls and boys science kits – The kits will no longer be sorted into “girls” and “boys” categories. The kits themselves, however, are still very gendered.
The Evolution of Our Discourse -- A vid on evolution by women scientists, and some sexist asshattery in response.
Sex Keeps Elderly Happier in Marriage -- it may well be true, but I can think of so many confounding factors on this one, and it seems like they only controlled for a few.
Friday Cephalopod: Bläckfisk! In Swedish!
New Yeti Crab Farms Bacteria On Its Arms To Eat
The Driver of Human Evolution Isn’t the Climate Around You, It’s the Worms Inside You
How fairy wasps cope with being smaller than amoebas
Is Child Sexual Abuse on the Rise?
According to the nation's top experts, children are actually safer from physical and sexual abuse than they have been for decades
The Nanny of the Month Award goes to the Wolverine State pol whose so-called "Hot for Teacher" bill could end up criminalizing sex between consenting adults of legal age. -- Oh, good grief. What a ridiculously bad idea. Institutional policies against it, sure. Getting the legal system involved? Far, far beyond overkill.
Ravens use gestures to communicate
Until recently, deictic gestures had only been observed in humans and a few of our closest evolutionary relatives, like chimpanzees
Help scientists decode the mysteries of whale songs [Citizen Science]
Why inbreeding really isn’t as bad as you think it is -- Weird. Grafton and I were just having a theoretical discussion about this in regards to post-apocalyptic scenarios.
The world’s smelliest frogs are a treasure trove of antibiotics
Researchers have identified poo-flinging as a sign of intelligence (in chimpanzees)
10 Bizarre Names and Strange Origins of Real Molecules
Easily hypnotized people can hallucinate colors whenever they want to -- My first thought as a skeptic is "huh, wonder if that's related to the frequently-reported ability to see auras"
Paris exhibit reveals the unspeakable horrors of the Human Zoo -- Things we have done that we must never forget.
Mysterious gamma ray burst has two perfectly good, completely different explanations
Stem cells in your heart could revolutionize heart surgery
Debunkery: Legalizing marijuana could reduce traffic fatalities
10 Pieces of Advice from Science Fiction and Fantasy Movies That Can Transform Your Life -- What geek hasn't recited "Fear is the mind killer" when they're totally freaked out?
Crowdfunded journalism + crowdsourced expertise = ?
The Debunking Handbook
Police hand- and ankle-cuff 5-year-old, charge him with battery on a police officer -- A five-year-old what? Ogre? Balrog? Tiger? Because I'm suuuuuuuure they couldn't possibly have thought that was an appropriate reaction to anything a five-year-old human could do. *rage*
Egyptian port-workers refuse to sign for tons of US-made tear-gas shipped in by Ministry of the Interior workers
San Diego police arrest congressional candidate for voter registration in Civic Center Plaza
Expressive octopus-with-lanterns statue
Mayor, er, King Bloomberg announces that NYPD is his Army -- American Civics: F
Pepper Spray Developer: It Has Become Fashionable to Use Chemicals on People with Opinions
In what appears to be his first television interview on the subject, Kamran Loghman, the developer of weapons-grade pepper spray and the policy for its use by US police departments, appeared on Democracy Now! to condemn how police forces have been using pepper spray on peaceful protesters in the country. He said he was “shocked” and bewildered to see UC Davis police pepper spraying students and the first thing that came to his mind was how the students could be his children “sitting down having an opinion” and being shut down forcibly by chemical agents.
The Language of the 99 Percent
Math Homework from 2300 BCE.
Anonymous library paper sculptor returns, and calls it quits
Kentucky church votes to ban interracial couples
Massive giant weta insect as big as your hand
State appeals dismissal in Michael Allison case, 75 years in prison for recording the police (in public)
Words That Are Transphobic & Why
DEA spokeswoman Barbara Carreno responding to a question about the drug agency's decision to put a small business owner out of business. Wallace, an 88 year old inventor, came up with a water purifier popular with flood victims and backpackers. Meth users have started using the iodine in the devise to cook meth so the DEA declared it drug paraphernalia and won't allow him to build the bottles. Don't blame the DEA though, it wasn't them. It was the meth heads.
Marine General Amos Now OK with DADT Repeal
Call for LGBTs to March in Solidarity with Occupy LA Dec 3rd
Public Accommodations Law Misconceptions and Trans Rights
You'd think all schools would have heard about Ryan White by now, but apparently the prestigious Milton Hershey boarding school doesn't teach modern history. The Pennsylvania school has denied admission to an HIV+ student claiming he's a threat to the other students' health.
States that prescribe abstinence-only sex education programs in public schools have significantly higher teenage pregnancy and birth rates than states with more comprehensive sex education programs, researchers from the University of Georgia have determined.
STUDY DEBUNKS STEREOTYPE THAT MEN THINK ABOUT SEX ALL DAY LONG
A Drug That Wakes the Near Dead
How Not to Prevent Child Molestation
More: Students Protest Unfair Coverage of Teacher's Porn Past
Battlefield America: U.S. Citizens Face Indefinite Military Detention in Defense Bill Before Senate
SOPA's most aggressive defender: U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Remember a few years ago, when an economic study was released showing that liberals and progressives were more ignorant about the economy than libertarians and conservatives?
Turns out it was run with a huge confirmation bias, and a follow-up study by the same (libertarian) researcher shows that conservatives and libertarians are just as ignorant.
More linketies coming -- so much still to get through! Why can't the world ever stop being interesting for a minute or two?
Scott Walker Wants to Charge Protesters to Protest in State Capitol
UK: Who’s Afraid of Sex Education?
Elizabeth Warren Surges Ahead of Scott Brown In New Poll
A brief rant about waist-to-hip ratio
This past Sunday, I blogged about the Apple iPhone's Siri, and her noticeable lack of knowledge regarding abortion, contraception, and reproductive health in general.
Additional, that you may not have seen in other articles: Birth control, EC, and rape queries were all similarly useless
Apple Blames Glitch for Siri’s Anti-Abortion Bias -- Gee, that's an oddly specific "glitch".
New Government Data Finds Sharp Decline in Teen Births: Increased Contraceptive Use and Shifts to More Effective Contraceptive Methods Behind this Encouraging Trend
Going to the Lady Doc -- On being fat-shamed at the doctor's office (and how it can lead to people avoiding care)
Occupying Reproductive Justice
Neandertals are stumping for bragging rights as the first builders of mammoth-bone structures, an accomplishment usually attributed to Stone Age people.
Scientology Held Woman Aboard the Freewinds for 12 Years Against Her Will
Threats from The Burzynski Clinic (to a teen skeptic)
More: Stanislaw, Streisand and Spartacus
More: A look at the Burzynski clinic’s publications
Edmund Scientifics responds to feedback on girls and boys science kits – The kits will no longer be sorted into “girls” and “boys” categories. The kits themselves, however, are still very gendered.
The Evolution of Our Discourse -- A vid on evolution by women scientists, and some sexist asshattery in response.
Sex Keeps Elderly Happier in Marriage -- it may well be true, but I can think of so many confounding factors on this one, and it seems like they only controlled for a few.
Friday Cephalopod: Bläckfisk! In Swedish!
New Yeti Crab Farms Bacteria On Its Arms To Eat
The Driver of Human Evolution Isn’t the Climate Around You, It’s the Worms Inside You
How fairy wasps cope with being smaller than amoebas
Is Child Sexual Abuse on the Rise?
According to the nation's top experts, children are actually safer from physical and sexual abuse than they have been for decades
The Nanny of the Month Award goes to the Wolverine State pol whose so-called "Hot for Teacher" bill could end up criminalizing sex between consenting adults of legal age. -- Oh, good grief. What a ridiculously bad idea. Institutional policies against it, sure. Getting the legal system involved? Far, far beyond overkill.
Ravens use gestures to communicate
Until recently, deictic gestures had only been observed in humans and a few of our closest evolutionary relatives, like chimpanzees
Help scientists decode the mysteries of whale songs [Citizen Science]
Why inbreeding really isn’t as bad as you think it is -- Weird. Grafton and I were just having a theoretical discussion about this in regards to post-apocalyptic scenarios.
The world’s smelliest frogs are a treasure trove of antibiotics
Researchers have identified poo-flinging as a sign of intelligence (in chimpanzees)
10 Bizarre Names and Strange Origins of Real Molecules
Easily hypnotized people can hallucinate colors whenever they want to -- My first thought as a skeptic is "huh, wonder if that's related to the frequently-reported ability to see auras"
Paris exhibit reveals the unspeakable horrors of the Human Zoo -- Things we have done that we must never forget.
Mysterious gamma ray burst has two perfectly good, completely different explanations
Stem cells in your heart could revolutionize heart surgery
Debunkery: Legalizing marijuana could reduce traffic fatalities
10 Pieces of Advice from Science Fiction and Fantasy Movies That Can Transform Your Life -- What geek hasn't recited "Fear is the mind killer" when they're totally freaked out?
Crowdfunded journalism + crowdsourced expertise = ?
The Debunking Handbook
Police hand- and ankle-cuff 5-year-old, charge him with battery on a police officer -- A five-year-old what? Ogre? Balrog? Tiger? Because I'm suuuuuuuure they couldn't possibly have thought that was an appropriate reaction to anything a five-year-old human could do. *rage*
Egyptian port-workers refuse to sign for tons of US-made tear-gas shipped in by Ministry of the Interior workers
San Diego police arrest congressional candidate for voter registration in Civic Center Plaza
Expressive octopus-with-lanterns statue
Mayor, er, King Bloomberg announces that NYPD is his Army -- American Civics: F
Pepper Spray Developer: It Has Become Fashionable to Use Chemicals on People with Opinions
In what appears to be his first television interview on the subject, Kamran Loghman, the developer of weapons-grade pepper spray and the policy for its use by US police departments, appeared on Democracy Now! to condemn how police forces have been using pepper spray on peaceful protesters in the country. He said he was “shocked” and bewildered to see UC Davis police pepper spraying students and the first thing that came to his mind was how the students could be his children “sitting down having an opinion” and being shut down forcibly by chemical agents.
The Language of the 99 Percent
Math Homework from 2300 BCE.
Anonymous library paper sculptor returns, and calls it quits
Kentucky church votes to ban interracial couples
Massive giant weta insect as big as your hand
State appeals dismissal in Michael Allison case, 75 years in prison for recording the police (in public)
Words That Are Transphobic & Why
DEA spokeswoman Barbara Carreno responding to a question about the drug agency's decision to put a small business owner out of business. Wallace, an 88 year old inventor, came up with a water purifier popular with flood victims and backpackers. Meth users have started using the iodine in the devise to cook meth so the DEA declared it drug paraphernalia and won't allow him to build the bottles. Don't blame the DEA though, it wasn't them. It was the meth heads.
Marine General Amos Now OK with DADT Repeal
Call for LGBTs to March in Solidarity with Occupy LA Dec 3rd
Public Accommodations Law Misconceptions and Trans Rights
You'd think all schools would have heard about Ryan White by now, but apparently the prestigious Milton Hershey boarding school doesn't teach modern history. The Pennsylvania school has denied admission to an HIV+ student claiming he's a threat to the other students' health.
States that prescribe abstinence-only sex education programs in public schools have significantly higher teenage pregnancy and birth rates than states with more comprehensive sex education programs, researchers from the University of Georgia have determined.
STUDY DEBUNKS STEREOTYPE THAT MEN THINK ABOUT SEX ALL DAY LONG
A Drug That Wakes the Near Dead
How Not to Prevent Child Molestation
More: Students Protest Unfair Coverage of Teacher's Porn Past
Battlefield America: U.S. Citizens Face Indefinite Military Detention in Defense Bill Before Senate
SOPA's most aggressive defender: U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Remember a few years ago, when an economic study was released showing that liberals and progressives were more ignorant about the economy than libertarians and conservatives?
Turns out it was run with a huge confirmation bias, and a follow-up study by the same (libertarian) researcher shows that conservatives and libertarians are just as ignorant.
More linketies coming -- so much still to get through! Why can't the world ever stop being interesting for a minute or two?
