September 2011
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Atheist Ethicist: Rick Perry's Anti-Federalism →
A broken clock can be right twice a day.
August 2011
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Tiger Beatdown › The Madman In the Woods: Mental... →
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The Escapist : Extra Punctuation: Time for... →
Yahtzee wonders, why aren’t we USING these physics engines?
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Does Facebook Exploit its Users? » Sociological... →
It’s an open question, here.
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Science-Based Medicine » Are Prenatal Ultrasounds... →
Sigh. More wading through the BS.
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Greta Christina's Blog: Puritan Pundits Should... →
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Jon Finkel Dodged a Bullet - Skepchick →
You want to stand above the “Nice Guy/ Shallow Bitch” stereotypes that feed into each other? Jon Finkel. Look at this guy. Considering what he was on the recieving end of… that’s class. Rebecca’s right, Gawker Australia has the real bile (as of my posting.
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paultevis.com - Paul Tevis - Like a Shark →
Paul Tevis shares why feeling his best work is at his back is a good feeling.
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Extra Credits leaves Escapist: The Full Story -... →
This is sad. I’ll continue following The Escapist and the Extra Credits crew as they go their seperate ways.
The Big Picture : In Defense of Nostalgia →
Are the rose tinted glasses always so bad?
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NeuroLogica Blog » The Bilingual Brain →
How we learn language, and the fluency coding.
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“During disasters, poor people, people of color, and the elderly die in...”
– Caroline Heldman, Hurricane Katrina and the Demographics of Death » Sociological Images
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Atheist Ethicist: A Problem with Government... →
Alonzo elaborates on yesterday’s post, pointing out that knowing regulation sustains something your invested in does not mean blindly taking comfort in such regulation.
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Science-Based Medicine » Seven Deadly Medical... →
Tearing a bad article up a bit more.
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Kill Screen - Review: Catherine →
A good dive into what this game does right and wrong theme wise.
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“The real reason this contact has such trouble is
that the most conservative...”
– Via Warren Ellis, via wikileaks
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Haunted by memories of the consequences of not... →
The price of the antivax “opinion”.
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My Faithlessness: The atheist way through AA – CNN... →
An atheist in AA.
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Warren Ellis » Never The End: Comics And MP3s →
How digital comics are changing things as the MP3 did.
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A History of Bayes' Theorem - Less Wrong →
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What if Michael Vick sold beemers, and other... →
On what we ascribe to race despite other factors.
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Fuck Gratitude — Feministe →
The compulsion to be thankful.
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Yarn Harlot: Going Again →
Seeing your book in the reals.
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Dead End Follies: Ten Rules To Write Noir →
A treasure trove of perspectives.
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How I Write →
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Penelope Trunk’s new “Blueprint for a Woman’s... →
On some “Ground Breaking” advice from Penelope Trunk.
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Post-Conflict Potter - By Tom Malinowski, Sarah... →
What will it take to make lasting piece now that the Boy-Who-Live has become the Man-That-Won?
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The Rights of Children – Yeah, I Went There —... →
The desire to protect vs the desire to control.
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Science-Based Medicine » When a “scientific study”... →
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What I mean when I talk about movies that bore the... →
The boredom of the magic pixie dream girl.
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Wate-On: “True Beauty Includes a Full Figure” »... →
Weight gain ads. Wow. That does feel odd to say.
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“Let’s get more specific. According to the application — oh, by the way, they’re...”
– Christian Daycare in Iowa Institutes New Guidelines for Employees | Friendly Atheist
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“Workers said they learned last Friday about new job requirements
including no...”
– Day Care Demands Workers Sign Strict Agreement - Project Economy News Story - KCCI Des Moines
I’m reminded of teacher’s contracts from as late as the 1920s stipulating they not be seen riding a carriage or car with a man they are not blod related to…
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Atheist Ethicist: Free Markets as Regulations →
Some solid points about the free market and regulation. And thank for the feature in #politics, gang!
I Love This Game: Jewels Link! →
On android
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Science-Based Medicine » The Annals of Internal... →
Not so scientific study.
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NeuroLogica Blog » Acupuncture and Acoustic Waves →
Besides the study in question, Steven exposes one way a lot of acupuncture studies go wrong.
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The Escapist : MovieBob: Bombs Away! →
Bob digs into what will be learned from the failures this summer.
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An appetite for moral panics — Feministe →
And where some of these “foodies” can stick it.
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Female Marine Commander | The Mary Sue →
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What women don’t want: pink beer, pink cars, a new... →
More on the prison of pink.
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Sniffing Dirty Laundry: A True Story from “the... →
I can not get enough of people cutting The Help into itty bitty bits.
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Kill Screen - Review: Cards Against Humanity →