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Any Dinosaur Comics fans?
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Omnivorous Atheist/Skeptic queer geeks 12 years, 4 months agoWooo! Pride Day in Salt Lake City! Didja know Utah has the largest Pride celebration between the Mississippi and California? If it was possible to post pics here I’d show you. PS, this parade is gearing up to be the biggest yet, we may pass up the Mormon’s annual Pioneer Days parade soon
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Brittany posted an update in the group
Omnivorous Atheist/Skeptic queer geeks 12 years, 4 months agoI was the captain of my high school’s science academic team.
I’m currently trying to find a way to steal my AP Lit textbook.
I think this group is the greatest thing ever.-
Oh no my AP Lit text is an anthology of really important poems/short stories/plays. It’s 2000 pages.
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Welcome! I love to see the younger folks in here. Critical thinking is an important skill to have that they don’t teach in schools
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I disagree. Teaching a person to ask questions and make observations is entirely possible. The problem is that they don’t. Schools are just about teaching kids to pass tests, no questions allowed
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Yeah, I agree that it can be taught. You can’t force students to take a stance independent from their research (because, sometimes, critical thinking involves considering option B and then realizing option A was right all along), but you can teach them how to be more skeptical of what they read – often by demonstrating the consequences of what…[Read more]
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Omnivorous Atheist/Skeptic queer geeks 12 years, 4 months agoDamn I love meat. The place where I attend a weekly geeky pub quiz does amazing burgers, it’s been two days and I’m still thinking about the last one I had. Know what else I am thinking about? How under-represented the LGBT community is in the skeptic world. Anybody know of any queer skeptic groups or sites? I love Skepchick and their feminist…[Read more]
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I know that there are a few queer bloggers on this list: http://www.blaghag.com/2010/01/large-list-of-awesome-female-atheists.html
And I’m not sure about BlagHag’s sexuality, (since she mentions guys she’s interested in I assume she isn’t a lesbian, but that doesn’t mean she isn’t queer), but she does talk a lot about queer skeptic issues, and…[Read more]
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Oh, here we go: http://www.blaghag.com/2010/10/setting-record-straight.html
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Awesome, thanks!
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Omnivorous Atheist/Skeptic queer geeks 12 years, 4 months agoSo how are you guys geeks?
I played Terraria for like 5 straight hours the other day.
Any gamers?
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I am a big book nerd, and a bit of a movie geek. I have dabbled in D&D, I played WoW for a few years, but my first love is reading. Especially hardcore fantasy like Game of Thrones, or Malazan Book of the Fallen.
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I was always super into reading when I was a kid and even a preteen but I haven’t been reading nearly as much lately and I’ve lost most of my interest in fiction. If I read now, it’s generally non-fiction.
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I have a truly awesome collection of classic/golden age SF. That’s probably my primary geekishness, but I also am a big internet dork, as far as knowing way too many internet jokes, and having a possibly horrifying amount of my real life friends be weirdos I originally met on shitty message boards.
I also dig good fantasy, like Game of Thrones,…[Read more]
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I’ve always wanted to be more of a gamer, but I am poor. I just play my old Pokemon games over and over on my Game Boy SP.
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Omnivorous Atheist/Skeptic queer geeks 12 years, 4 months agoInteresting Study.
Religious Experiences Shrink Part of the Brain
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=religious-experiences-shrink-part-of-brain-
In this study, Owen et al. used MRI to measure the volume of the hippocampus, a central structure of the limbic system that is involved in emotion as well as in memory formation. They evaluated the MRIs of 268 men and women aged 58 and over, who were originally recruited for the NeuroCognitive Outcomes of Depression in the Elderly study, but who…[Read more]
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That’s really interesting. :| Depression itself usually shrinks the hippocampus as well. The hippocampus is primarily used in memory, I wonder if it has any noticeable and measurable effects on the highly religious? Do you think the hippocampal atrophy is a cause or effect of “deeply religious experiences”?
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that’s a very good question. I’d like to know the answer too.
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Nice, thanks for posting
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Omnivorous Atheist/Skeptic queer geeks 12 years, 4 months agoSo let’s focus on the Skeptic part of this group. How ridiculous are anti-vaxers like Jenny McCarthy? There are currently measles outbreaks all across the country, even here in Utah, because a few people actually are convinced that vaccines cause autism(no evidence whatsoever to support this claim). Well guess what? Measles can KILL, pertussis can…[Read more]
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Man, there are few things that piss me off more than that crazy movement. I grew up in a small town full of hippies, and then moved to a bigger city full of hippies, and I swear I am constantly surrounded by these people. Even my mom buys into that crap. I’ve been reading about the measles stuff lately and it makes me SO MAD because there is just…[Read more]
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That stuff pisses me off so much, people are dying because these stupid people won’t vaccinate their kids. I had someone on facebook unfriend me because I kept calling out her anti-vax (wasn’t a big loss since she’s also a fan of fox news).
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I have an aunt and once had a teacher that were anti-vaccine. They make my blood boil. I’m pretty passionate about it just because it is so god damned stupid. Parents shouldn’t have the right to deny their children vaccines that could prevent serious outbreaks of diseases that are totally preventable.
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There’s a website called ”Jenny McCarthy Body Count” that has numbers of how many people in countries where vaccines are widely available have died of the diseases they prevent.
It also really offends me that people would rather have their kid get something like mumps or rubella, than have a health autistic kid. It’s just SO offensive to people…[Read more]
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Meeeee.
Love em!
You love me? (That is a really stupid joke about my name that I make whenever anyone says ’em without the apostrophe.) Dinosaur Comics inspires me to be a better person. I think I mentioned it earlier in a post of my favorites, but for some reason my internet is being awful and not letting me load earlier posts. Boo!
I’m having trouble loading earlier posts too, but yay Dinosaur Comics!
Also, one of my proudest moments ever was when I got a picture on the “adventures” section of the website. And I have ordered my “#heyladies” shirt for pride!