This image was widely shared from the I Fucking Love Science twitter and facebook pages. It was posted in March, but Mayim Bialik is regularly praised by many skeptics as a great role model for young people or an entertainer who is something more. When some people brought up the fact that Mayim Bialik promotes pseudoscience, many said…
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Skeptoid #400 “It’s Just Science” Music Video
Here is the new music video for Skeptoid’s 400th episode! I am happy to be a part of this video as a nurse, dancer, and posse member. Skeptoid #400: It’s Just Science Check out the Skeptoid website for the podcast, blog, and more. There is also a facebook page. The 400th podcast episode and the lyrics for the…
New song: Unborn Ghosts
Here is my new song, “Unborn Ghosts”, featuring the spoken word of Richard Dawkins. I did this as both a tribute to and a way to share the beautiful words of Dawkins from Unweaving the Rainbow. As I’ve written about before, I want these words said at my funeral. Actually, now that this song exists,…
Dawkins and Tyson at Howard U
Here are photos and videos of the Richard Dawkins/Neil deGrasse events I attended on September 28. I was waiting until the video was released before I posted about this, so here you go (Videos and descriptions from http://richarddawkins.net): The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science ( http://richarddawkins.net ) presents: “The Poetry of Science: Discussions…
Photos: Sam Harris in DC
Here are some photos I took from a presentation Tuesday night in DC by Sam Harris. He was speaking about his new book, The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values. These two photos were taken by @brucefp:
Sam Harris, Morality, and The Monty Hall Problem
I’m currently in the middle of reading Sam Harris’ new book, The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values. I had to take a few minutes to pause and look up something he mentioned, called The Monty Hall problem. Here is part of the Wikipedia article on this: The Monty Hall problem is a probability puzzle loosely based…
Happy 30th Birthday, Cosmos!
Today is the 30th anniversary of the original airing of the first episode of Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. I first watched the series as a child and it definitely piqued my interest in the world of science and outer space. The content below beautifully explains it all. It’s an email I received today from CFI…
Richard Dawkins and Neil deGrasse Tyson tomorrow in DC
I’ll be attending an awesome nerdfest tomorrow and I am really excited. Richard Dawkins and Neil deGrasse Tyson are both rockstars in the science world. I will be at both events. The Secular Students at Howard University invite you to these two special events: The Poetry of Science: Discussions of the Beauty of Science Tuesday, September…