May 2012
insomniac musings
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April 2012
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Back to the Futurist: Anab Jain | URBNFUTR →
Apr 30th
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Apr 30th
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The Mary Sue - Teen Girl Files Lawsuit Over... →
You go girl.
Apr 30th
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Neil Gaiman's Journal - Popular Writers: A Stephen... →
Apr 30th
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Intelligence and Other Stereotypes: The Power of... →
What makes a smart person? Flexibility has a good case.
Apr 29th
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The science of civil war: What makes heroic strife... →
Almost psychohistory in its promise.
Apr 29th
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“Poison occupies a nebulous middle ground. Her depiction is far from politically...”
– Poisonous Paragraphs - Kill Screen
Apr 29th
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Apr 28th
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Apr 28th
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James Randi Educational Foundation - Interpreting... →
I wish 16 year old me had this when he left the school’s faith group.
Apr 28th
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Apr 28th
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“Early-1966, believing its contents to be “immoral,” the Hanover...”
– Letters of Note - The problem is one of illiteracy, not Marxism Perfect.
Apr 28th
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Apr 26th
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Pharyngula - Clitoral kludges →
and how a kludge can be wonderful
Apr 26th
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“A major hidden ideology that runs through sports and that affects all women...”
– Feministe - How Equality In Sport is Undermined by Compulsory Heterosexuality
Apr 26th
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Greta Christina's Blog - Atheism and a Catch-22 →
Apr 26th
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Televangelist Pat Robertson: Scientists can't... →
ryking: This is not a story from The Onion.
Apr 26th
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Science-Based Medicine - Hypnotherapy For Pain and... →
When it’s a problem to define what you’re trying to study…
Apr 26th
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Clarisse Thorne - My Interview with World-Famous... →
Apr 26th
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Ehrman on Jesus: A Failure of Facts and Logic |... →
Apr 26th
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Interview: we talk with Ken Levine about the... →
Improving experience by creating worlds; and messing with players.
Apr 26th
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BOYS TENNIS: Female proves she can play with the... →
Note the male centric language. sigh.
Apr 26th
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The Escapist : Big Studios Can't Produce Good... →
the polish is fail
Apr 26th
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Apr 25th
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Planned Parenthood Worried It's The Target Of New... →
And the sting runners convince themselves they’re subversive heroes.
Apr 25th
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The Girls' Guide To Calling Out Sexism Without... →
Apr 25th
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The Mary Sue - Porn Turns Women’s Brains Off So... →
And I will not fein shock at using those two tags together.
Apr 25th
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Letters of Note - American democracy will have... →
Steinbeck’s sadness that he’s even asked this…
Apr 25th
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Pharyngula - The NDE delusion →
Apr 25th
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The Rogues Gallery - A Grief Reminder →
Our compassion, then our razor care of Occum.
Apr 25th
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“Paradoxes do not exist in reality, only in our current models of reality, and so...”
– NeuroLogica Blog - The Paradox Paradox
Apr 25th
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Greta Christina's Blog - Sex Work and a Catch-22 →
A catch based on BS, but needs to be addressed.
Apr 25th
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Science-Based Medicine - Chiropractors as Family... →
I don’t trust them in their own supposed field, I wouldn’t trust one as my general practicioner!
Apr 25th
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Differences Over Parenting Can Break, Often Just... →
Apr 25th
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Author Carol J. Adams Weighs In On The Ethicist's... →
Because the Times’ ethics columnist choose to stick with white men, Blisstree injects a woman into the debate.
Apr 25th
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“Global population is expected to hit eight billion around 2025, which is to say...”
– Procreation vs. Overpopulation : The New Yorker
Apr 24th
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“Oh, You Sexy Geek!”: “Geek Girls” and the Problem... →
Allowing some complexity to a discussion that’s often looked at far to simply.
Apr 24th
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Cryobots Could Drill Into Icy Moons With Remote... →
The headline alone would be WIN.
Apr 24th
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“Grand Theft Auto really was, at bottom, a hollow and blackhearted game....”
– I Can’t Play Without My Radio - Kill Screen
Apr 24th
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Apr 24th
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Greta Christina's Blog - Sex Workers – An... →
Greta wants to hear from the people out there actually doing the work.
Apr 24th
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The Mary Sue - Flash Drive Shaped Like a Tampon... →
A bit of marketing fail, but funny…
Apr 24th
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Tiger Beatdown - Choosing to Cut the Cake: Theory... →
On turning theory into action or not.
Apr 24th
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“One of the most difficult aspects of science to convey to the general public...”
– Science-Based Medicine - The problem with preclinical research? Or: A former pharma exec discovers the nature of science
Apr 24th
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Skepchick - Cochineal Taxonomy Fail →
On so many levels.
Apr 24th
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Hoyden About Town - How turning voters off... →
the spoiler effect as campaign strategy. Note in Alberta, Canada, this has led to a few dynasty changes when pussed too far.
Apr 24th
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