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Science For The People talks women in STEM
Categories: Feminism Science SkepticismTags: Sciencestemwomen in STEMScience For The People brought together four women working in STEM – Colgate University Professor of Psychology Jessica Cundiff,...
View ArticleTractors for Africa: Will a Rental Model Transform Reality for Farmers in...
Crowdfunding campaigns for various charitable initiatives (as well as even more dubious religious ones) are a dime a dozen these days. Many of them come nowhere near their goals, quite often raising no...
View ArticleGlobal Quickies: Antivaxxer Has to Pay, Armored Protest, and Forced...
GERMANY “A German biologist who offered €100,000 (£71,350; $106,300) to anyone who could prove that measles is a virus has been ordered by a court to pay up.” INDIA “Indian news network NDTV (New Delhi...
View ArticleInsights Into Menopause Come from Killer Whales
A fun fact about human people with uteruses is that we are one of the very few species in which menopause happens and the person can continue living a long and happy life for many years afterwards....
View ArticleGlobal Quickies: Whooping Cough, Breastfeeding, and Don Quixote
AUSTRALIA A 4-week-old baby died of whooping cough. The family hopes this will raise awareness on the importance of getting vaccinated. CANADA The TV show Marketplace gets a fake natural remedy for...
View ArticleNew Video! The Jinx: How Misogyny Helped Free a Murderer
Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca! Sorta transcript: On Sunday, HBO aired the final episode of The Jinx, a 6-part documentary about multi-millionaire Robert Durst. Durst was...
View ArticleGlobal Quickies: Attacks on Innocent Women, Giving Mom’s Their Names Back,...
AFGHANISTAN The woman who was brutally killed by a mob last week after being falsely accused of burning pages of the Koran is said to have been arguing with a mullah about his peddling of amulets to...
View Article#BoycottNFL?: One Feminist NFL Fan’s Moral Dilemma
Content Note: Domestic Violence Football has always been a part of my blood. My dad lived and breathed Texas A&M football, and while I rebelled to become a University of Texas fan and Dallas...
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Intersectional Social Justice in Popular Music: LAWAAG meetup with Courtney...
Categories: Events FeminismTags: LAWAAGmusicIt’s time for the Los Angeles Women’s Atheist and Agnostic Group’s monthly meet-up on Tuesday April 7th at 7pm. This month we are gonna listen to, and learn...
View ArticleMeghan Trainor Gets It Wrong
What’s wrong with a video that shows images of a woman in 50s garb cooking and cleaning while looking for a man? That seems to be the question that everyone is asking about Meghan Trainor’s video “Dear...
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Cross-Post: The Gay Agenda #1: Advice for friends – knowing what you are saying
Editor’s Note: This Cross-Post from Grounded Parents is written by Cerys Gruffyydd. If you want to read the full post or leave comments, click through the link at the bottom. ***** My child identifies...
View ArticleGlobal Quickies: Not Just a Number, Red River Women, and Coding in the Slum
KENYA #147notjustanumber: “An open-source social media campaign has begun commemorating those who died in the al-Shabaab terror assault, tweet by tweet” GHANA Girls in a slum in the Ghanaian capital of...
View ArticleGlobal Quickies: Exsorcisms, Measels on a Plane, and the Threats of Atheism
MEDITERRANEAN SEA “Muslims who were among migrants trying to get from Libya to Italy in a boat this week threw 12 fellow passengers overboard — killing them — because the 12 were Christians, Italian...
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The Paradox of Meritocracy
I’ve written about the gender pay gap before and every time I do I get people who respond by insisting that there is perfect equality in the workplace and any imbalances that exist must be because...
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Not Responding to Dangerous Road Rage Means the Trolls Won
Yesterday, I was driving home from a friend’s place around dusk. I approached a traffic light at which I was turning left. I had the green light but a car was approaching from the opposite direction,...
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So You’ve Been Publicly Wrong: Anatomy of a Good Apology
After making utterly distasteful comments during an interview regarding Black Widow, actors Chris Evans and Jeremy Renner offered two very different apologies today. From Entertainment Weekly:...
View ArticleGlobal Quickies: Racist Jewelry, Racist Columnist, and Volcanoes
PAKISTAN “The progressive activist and organizer who ran Pakistan’s first-ever hackathon and led a human rights and a peace-focused nonprofit known as The Second Floor (T2F) was shot dead today by...
View ArticleAnti-Science Fatphobia and ProteinWorld
Last month, I wrote about some of the severe anti-science rhetoric I’ve seen coming out of the Health at Every Size camp, particularly from Ragen Chastain and the people who believe what she says...
View ArticleLAWAAG Meetup: Being Inclusive of all Socio-economic Classes in DIY Movements...
Join me and The Los Angeles Women’s Atheist and Agnostic Group on the first Tuesday of May (that is this coming Tuesday May 5th, 7pm) at CFI-Los Angeles for a presentation by special guest Teka-Lark...
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Bad Chart Thursday: Redditors Prove the Gender Wage Gap is a Myth
Ladies, you can all stop complaining about not being paid as much as men because Reddit has determined that there is no gender wage gap. Reddit user Rhiever posted in r/dataisbeautiful an article that...
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