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• Cosmos Wars

  By tigtog on 2014-04-03 • ( 3 )

  

  Dana Hunter thoughtfully put together a links roundup (so I didn’t have to) on the many many creationists who are very cross with astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson right now because he’s talking science on TV.

• Femmostroppo Reader 29th March 2014

  By tigtog on 2014-03-29 • ( 2 )

  

  Those who follow me on Twitter may have already seen a fair few of these links. What have you found worth reading/hatereading lately?

• Give a Voice to Harassment Victims: A legal fund for sexual harassment victim Karen Stollznow

  By tigtog on 2014-03-28 • ( 8 )

  

  Those of you who are regular followers/lurkers of the atheoskeptosphere probably know about this fundraiser for Karen Stollznow’s legal costs by now, but I’m signal-boosting it for the record …

• Sotomayor asks a question about the consequences of corporate religion

  By tigtog on 2014-03-27 • ( 4 )

  

  …and the anti-abortion lobby is cross that she interrupted an attorney (and compared abortioncontraception to other medical procedures – in a case about medical insurance).

• Media Circus: Don’t Look At The Policies Behind The Knighthoods edition

  By tigtog on 2014-03-26 • ( 10 )

  

  So our drearly beloathed Prime Minister wants to get a gong when he retires from politics.

  What news story/commentary/analysis has grabbed your attention lately?

• Sunday Singalong: Footloose Nostalgia

  By tigtog on 2014-03-23 • ( 6 )

  

  It’s 25thirty years since Footloose came out, and Kevin Bacon’s still got the moves (and Jimmy Fallon has a gift for cheesy setups).

• Debate vs Inquiry and “Reasonable Debate” as a silencing tactic

  By tigtog on 2014-03-18 • ( 13 )

  

  Debate is not inquiry. Argument is not skepticism. Fetishizing debate makes us less knowledgeable as a culture and even as a movement, not more.

  <okay, sure, we’ve been having these debates for decades now. But let’s dredge it up again. Let’s treat the basic bodily autonomy of people with uteruses** as a subject that’s up for discussion, a subject that reasonable people can disagree about. And let’s be calm and reasonable about it.

• Media Circus: March in March edition

  By tigtog on 2014-03-17 • ( 12 )

  

  Thousands of people around Australia marched this past weekend to express their dissatisfaction and disgust with the Abbott government.

  What news story/commentary/analysis has grabbed your attention lately?

• Femmostroppo Reader 17th March 2014

  By tigtog on 2014-03-17 • ( 6 )

  

  Those who follow me on Twitter may have already seen a fair few of these links. What have you found worth reading/hatereading lately?

• 25 years of the WWW

  By tigtog on 2014-03-14 • ( 3 )

  

  The Web was 25 years old this past Tuesday. What memories stir within you?