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By Wendy Hughes, on April 11th, 2012
This is the second article in a series. Part 1 is here.
The Big Responsibility
My mom is far older than my father lived to be, but much healthier. Maybe because I know more, and I have more control — I’m sure that’s part of the difference in the sense of responsibility I feel. I
Continue reading Do You Believe in Life After Death? Part Two
By Sophie Hirschfeld, on April 4th, 2012
Just hours ago, a close friend of mine joked that if I were only willing to go on medication for the rest of my life and didn’t care about my health so much, I could have a whole piece of cake instead of just two bites of it at his child’s birthday party. Only an
Continue reading The Curious Case of the Beauty Queen Bias
By Sophie Hirschfeld, on March 22nd, 2012
This article is a repost from indieskeptics.com.
Lately, I’ve been doing a lot of researching on mummies for a project that I’m working on. This researching has branched off in several directions and
King Tut: An Invasion of Privacy?
resulted in me learning some fascinating things. My research on mummies has a lot to do
Continue reading The Bane of Human Remains
By Sophie Hirschfeld, on March 3rd, 2012
I have frequently run into conversations, lately, about a controversial topic that I think people need to reassess. Interestingly, encouraging others to rethink their stance on this seems to make me a bad person. Obviously, I’m a bad person, but this is probably not why I’m a bad person. In the last few weeks, I’ve:
told
Continue reading Pants on Fire
By Anthropologist Underground, on February 20th, 2012
I speak a little Spanish, but just barely. Not even well enough to know the curse words, unfortunately. Basically I’m able to order food and chat about the weather. If I don’t panic when I miss a word or two, I usually understand enough to follow the broad themes of a conversation. I just
Continue reading Puscast Podcast: A Non-Expert Review
By Wendy Hughes, on February 13th, 2012
This is the first part of a mini-series. The other parts will be posted at a future date.
My mom as a paper doll cut out. It must have been fashionable to have hand tinted photos cut out, applied to a wooden background carved to the outline shape of the picture, to place in
Continue reading Do You Believe in Life After Death? A Caregiver’s story
By Kitty Mervine, on February 8th, 2012
A note from Sophie Hirschfeld: Kitty Mervine is working on a project that is important to the skeptic community. She needs our help and asked permission to post her plea here on SheThought. I ask that you help her in whatever large or small way you can. She has been tremendously generous to the skeptic
Continue reading Skeptic Stories for children – Won’t you please help?
By Anthropologist Underground, on February 7th, 2012
On a long drive between Denver and Laramie, at way past bedtime, my seven-year-old son told me about a magazine he had seen at the barber shop. He’s a good reader, so he could tell me what the words said, but he didn’t understand what they meant. He said there was a picture
Continue reading When You Die, That’s It.
By Susan Gerbic, on January 30th, 2012
Wikipedia has recently been flexing its muscles lately, I’m sure you have heard about their powerful one day blackout protesting SOPA. And why not? Wikipedia is one of the top five used Internet sites, how many of us tried to use Wikipedia that day and got the black shadow screen? I joined the Twitter
Continue reading Wikipedia and Skeptic Women
By Anthropologist Underground, on January 27th, 2012
The accessiblity for writing in public and self-publishing is amazing. I feel very fortunate to enjoy a few venues in which to do this. I have a passion for factual reality, and I want to spread the good news. I do love the
Continue reading Science is Real!
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