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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 Sophie Hirschfeld, on October 8th, 2011 Today, October 8, 2011, and tomorrow, I am attending Geek Girl Con, in Seattle. I will be live blogging the event all weekend. Myself and two friends kicked of the weekend with a visit to the AFK tavern, but I will write about that later. At this moment, I am sitting in JBL theatre watching
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By JennaMarie, on July 13th, 2011 The Amaz!ng Meeting doesn’t officially start until tomorrow with the opening slate of workshops, but skeptics and critical thinkers have already descended en masse in Vegas.
This afternoon I attended the volunteer luncheon at the hotel buffet. No, I didn’t crash it, I’m volunteering as a ticket taker for several hours tomorrow. There was an air
Continue reading Amaz!ng Sights at the TAM Pre-Show
By JennaMarie, on July 10th, 2011
This week I’ll be attending The Amaz!ng Meeting 9 (TAM9) in Las Vegas, Nevada, along with many of my SheThought co-writers. TAM9 is the annual conference of The James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) that brings together skeptics and critical thinkers for several days of talks, panels and myriad activities. Each year
Continue reading SheThought Happens in Vegas
By Kitty Mervine, on June 6th, 2011
I think a common complaint of many skeptics is the difficulty in getting anyone to “change their mind”. It seems that even with careful and clear explanations, many non-critical thinkers insist on clinging to their unfounded, and often irrational, beliefs. I have heard “Why bother even being nice. I just make fun of anyone that believes
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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
By Josh Witten, on May 10th, 2011 Author’s Note: I make no claims that these opinions are particularly well-informed as I am a) a privileged, heterosexual, white male and b) do not attend the skeptical events/meetings referred to below, but was asked to write them down anyway. CAVEAT EMPTOR.
Prominent Skeptic Lawrence Krauss’s tone deaf defense of Jeffrey Epstein’s exploitation of
Continue reading On Catholic Priests and Sketchy Skeptics…
By Nicole Gugliucci, on April 13th, 2011 If you can spare a dollar, a few bucks, whatever, please help out this really fantastic cause! It’s so good, I’m doing a 5K for it. And I hate running…
(Cross-posted on NoisyAstronomer.com)
So, this all started when one of my fellow grad students came into my office yesterday saying, “Hey! There is free ice cream
Continue reading Urgent! You can help Kids with Autism
By Josh Witten, on April 7th, 2011 I regularly have a problem when trying to fix problems with physical objects that do mechanically things[1]. In attempting to solve the problem, I learn that the problem I thought was the problem is not the problem and discover what the actual the problem is. Not that I then necessarily have any idea how to
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By Sophie Hirschfeld, on February 13th, 2011 You may have already seen my post called When Sex Gets in my Apple-Bottomed Jeans, and you probably noticed that I mentioned that I had more to say about McCreight’s fu-luster-cuck-uck. I discussed the video and talked a little about the aftermath in general terms, but there is much work to be done in
Continue reading When Sex Gets in my Apple-Bottomed Jeans (Part Deux)
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