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Today is the fifth of May date of the quite famous Mexican celebration of the Cinco de Mayo. I think that, at this point, many Americans are aware that Cinco de Mayo is actually not the Mexican day of independence (that falls on September 16th) but it might Continue reading Feliz Cinco de Mayo a todos! Once a week, I visit the Federal building in downtown Harrisburg to pick up or drop off mail at the post office. I walk up the steps upon which five years ago crowds gathered and cameras were fixed. It was five years ago today that the landmark Kitzmiller v. Dover decision came down. I am Continue reading Happy anniversary to some evolutionary women As an atheist I usually feel vaguely uncomfortable about celebrating Christmas, but that is the major option I have. But Christmas is really about being with family as shown in this lovely song by Tim Continue reading An Atheist at Christmas
Santa has represented in one of the coke commercial that helped cementing his appearance in the public mind. Santa now is the ever-present secular alternative for Christmas. Tired of the same old bearded divinity? Looking for some alternative to celebrate on this holiday season? Look no further! SheThought Continue reading Substitutional divinities Chi Rho Monogram from The Book of Kells, f34 I generally avoid getting into dustups over religion on the Internet because it is nearly impossible to settle arguments of philosophy when intertwined amongst this wondrous series of tubes. There is a very important exception to this personal invocation of net-neutrality: silly, easily corrected factual errors Continue reading Going Greek for the Lord Kitty, GeekGoddess and their friend Susan with James Randi Thanksgiving week means time to reflect on what I am grateful for. When I became more involved with the skeptic community, I never knew that so many of my friends would come from the skeptic community. When I attend TAM or go to a Skeptics Continue reading Thankful for the Skeptics The culture of my parents was unfortunately bigoted, authoritarian and incurious. My parents were informed by family tradition and a rigidly patriarchal interpretation of religious dogma. They felt that however the Europeans abused the indigenous Americans was fine because we are God’s chosen people. The brown-skinned people were a hindrance to Manifest Destiny. The Continue reading I’m Thankful for Being a Girl Gustav Klimt "Medicine" 1897/8 (Private Collection, Vienna) We are discussing things we are thankful for this week at SheThought. What am I thankful for that’s related to science or critical thinking? For me I am very much appreciative of the advances that have been made in the realm of gynecological health and treatment, and a Continue reading Bubbette and Earline: The fibroid Thelma and Louise The first introduction I had to the notion of a ‘Thanksgiving’ holiday was via an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Nothing like having a faux-British faux-Vampire sum up his views on the holiday as: Spike : You won. All right? You came in and you killed them and you Continue reading On Thanksgiving – From A Non-American The annual turkey and smallpox celebration weekend is just around the corner in the United States and it seems like a good time to sit down and reflect on how lucky we are and, more specifically here at SheThought, what benefits science has brought us… The answers are, of course, as numerous as they are obvious. Continue reading Giving Thanks to Science |
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