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The King’s Speech details the drama that ensued when a would-be leader, Prince Albert of England (Colin Firth), second son of George V, found his lifelong stammer as an obstacle to his royal duty to address the public on the new medium of radio in the 1930s. Bertie, as Albert was known to his Continue reading It’s Not What You Say; It’s How You Say It! Perth researcher, teacher, and SheThought contributor Kylie Sturgess is quoted (and SheThought given a shout out!) in a new article on women and superstition in the Australian National Times: Are women really more likely than men to believe in the paranormal? You’d certainly think so if you were to go by what’s on the female-oriented Continue reading Do I (and all women) WANT to Believe?? When these claims skim over the formal scientific scrutiny, an informed public must serve as the peer Continue reading Direct to the public: Science via media event 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. 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 The Poster I’m the first to admit that sexism and lack of reasonable representations of women in movies doesn’t always bother me, especially if the movie is entertaining otherwise. The original Star Wars Trilogy, for example, didn’t pass the Bechdel test at all, but I still love them. So, my extreme dislike of Continue reading Tron: Legacy: Where are all the women? 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 Kids are pretty cool, m’kay. They are fun, they love to learn, especially about cool stuff like dinosaurs and zombies (and/or turtles) and are, until we squash that out of them, smarter than the grown-up around them. So, controversial as this position might be, I feel confident stating that child abuse and exploitation are bad Continue reading ‘Psychic Kids’, Exploiting Children for Fun and Profit! Through the internet we are sharing snippets of our culture, but we all put them together differently. Halloween is a good example where what we think other people are doing could be quite Continue reading Halloween in Australia On October 9th, 2010, I went down the rabbit hole. I went to a Mutual UFO Network conference. The Setup First, I’ll admit something that I haven’t talked about all that much. I once believed that aliens were visiting Earth and that there was a government cover-up. I wasn’t always so skeptical. I was, and still Continue reading Beam Me Down the Rabbit Hole |
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