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• Posted at 4:20

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  [ No Gravatar]After being away for a couple weeks surfing in Mexico, I wanted my return post to be about skepticism south of the border, or the science of tides and waves, or something really cool like that. Barring any insightful thoughts on those subjects, I thought at the very least I’d post about something unique,

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• Skepchick Quickies, 7.23

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  [ No Gravatar] Physical Theories as Women: “Newtonian gravity is your high-school girlfriend. As your first encounter with physics, she’s amazing. You will never forget Newtonian gravity, even if you’re not in touch very much anymore.” Hmm, but what about the guys? Suggestions from the Skepchick crew? Indian women looking for abortions are

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• Lithuanian Haiku?

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  [ No Gravatar]Yep, you read this right. I found a cute little post card flaunting a Lithuanian haiku while I was waiting for my latte in a coffee shop yesterday morning. Here is the Lithuanian poem by Tomas Sinickis with my, somewhat free, translation. It seemed appropriate to post here given the recent posts on Catholicism

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• On Santa…

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  [ No Gravatar]Somewhere in the 100+ comments to Rebecca’s post on The Great Cracker Debacle, the topic of Santa came up. I know it tends to be a touchy subject for people.  My husband and I were quite surprised at the reactions from people when we said we weren’t going to be telling Moose that there is actually a real live Santa

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• Papal tweet

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  [ No Gravatar]While browsing through a Catholic site, I came across an ad asking me, “Want to know what the pope is thinking?” with a picture of some guy’s hand holding a Blackberry with a text message from the Pope saying, “I know. You could be a saint.” Uhh… how could I not click that ad?  I just saw Phil from sales get beatified without so

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• Warning: You May Be Insulted

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  [ No Gravatar]I really wanted to give one final comment on the whole PZ vs. the Cracker debacle, and then I decided I wouldn’t because the whole thing just annoys me to no end and has been beaten into the ground. Then at the last second I changed my mind again. Here we go. The reason why it’s still on my mind is because we talked about it on the

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• Skepchick Quickies 7.22

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  [ No Gravatar] Number of creatures in the “Spore” database exceed the number of known species on Earth- From Steve. South Dakota abortion providers must tell women abortion terminates “life”- “Starting Friday, doctors in South Dakota must tell women seeking abortions that the procedure ends a human life and may cause them psychological harm,

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• Contact Form Taken Down

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  [ No Gravatar]An idiot who thinks aliens blew up the World Trade Center has used our contact form to send hundreds of inane spam emails, so I had to take it offline. I don’t know when I’ll have time to fix it, so in the meantime if you want to suggest links and stories, you’ll have to use the comments. Sorry. Sometimes we are reminded that the

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• The Scopes Monkey Trial

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  [ No Gravatar] I made an oversight in the Quickies this morning, so I’m making up for it with a bonus video clip - on this date in 1925, John Scopes was found guilty of teaching evolution in a Tennessee school. Enjoy Spencer Tracy, as defense lawyer Clarence Darrow, make his case in the 1960 film Inherit the Wind:

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• Skepchick Quickies, 7.21

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  [ No Gravatar] Premonition FAIL. (Thanks to several.) Denver Zoo welcomes rare aye-ayes, rare partially because they’re considered bad omens. Is global warming killing baby penguins? Jesse Ventura isn’t running for Senate in part because he thinks he’s not religious enough to win.

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