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By Anthropologist Underground, on January 17th, 2012
Actors’ representation of American political discourse.
Marc J. Hetherington and Jonathan Weiler examine major psychological currents that contribute to dysfunction in American politics in their book, Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics.
They gathered a wealth of information from the American National Election Studies data to explain the current polarized disarray of American political discourse. In particular, they
Continue reading American Political Dysfunction Explained, Sort-Of
By Ashley F Miller, on September 28th, 2011
Jennifer Hancock, from her website
Jen Hancock was kind enough to reach out to the SheThought writers and offered me a chance to read and review her book, The Humanist Approach to Happiness: Practical Wisdom. The book is aimed at teens and young adults as a way to
Continue reading Book Review: Jen Hancock’s Humanist Approach to Happiness
By Sharon Hill, on May 13th, 2011
In 2004, Cyndi Sneath joined her neighbor, Tammy Kitzmiller and nine other parents as plantiffs in legal action against their local school board in Dover, Pennsylvania. This group of parents recognized creationism when they saw attempts to inject a non-science, pro-religious viewpoint into the 9th grade biology class. The case pitted the parents
Continue reading Two Women of Dover: Taking Action for What Matters
Disclaimer: Nikki Stern pays me a modest salary to write for her at Does This Make Sense. I have also received swag in the form of a very attractive coffee mug and a review copy of this book.
I just finished reading Because I Say So, the Dangerous Appeal of Moral Authority, by
Continue reading Book Review: Because I Say So by Nikki Stern
By Marion Kilgour, on January 3rd, 2011
As I mentioned recently on Skeptic North, I’ve been going through my boxes of books recently. One of the treasures that I found was The Science Book for Girls and Other Intelligent Beings, written by Valerie Wyatt and published in 1993. It’s battered, beaten, and has some stains on it,
Continue reading Book Review: The Science Book for Girls and Other Intelligent Beings
By Elizebeth Turnquist, on December 21st, 2010 It may seem silly for a skeptic like me to watch Eat Pray Love. All I can say is that I like fluffy films and I thought I could just ignore the ‘pray’ part, as I have with movies in the past. I didn’t realize I’d still be fuming the morning after.
Eat
Continue reading Eat Pray WTF?
By Simon Menanteau-Ledouble, on December 17th, 2010
With the coming holidays, I thought that this book would be a good subject to talk about as, in my opinion, it constitutes a wonderful sock stuffer. It was written by Daniel Loxton, editor of the ‘Junior Skeptic’, the rather awesome children-focused
Continue reading Evolution – How We and All Living Things Came to Be (A review of Daniel Loxton’s book).
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