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In honor of Friday’s National Mammogram day, Jack Black gets a mammogram in honor of the Men for Women Now campaign, a collaboration between the Noreen Fraser Foundation and SocialVibe to fund women’s cancer research. Jack co-wrote this video where he encourages men to “get off our lazy butts…” Continue reading
Brother Sam Presents the Oral Awards
This hilarious video is a special program featuring Sam Singleton Atheist Evangelist as he institutes a new award in honor of outstanding achievement in the oral arts. Starting with Oral Roberts, who was commanded by Jeebuz to “get your ass out there and evangelize!!” Continue reading
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Today’s Mystery Bird for you to Identify
This individual bird looks different from the adults of the species (a situation that as is typical for most bird species) — can you tell me why birds usually have a special juvenile plumage that differs from plumage worn by either adult? Continue reading
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The Empathic Civilisation
This video animates a presentation by bestselling author, political adviser and social and ethical thinker, Jeremy Rifkin. It presentes his investigations into the evolution of empathy and the profound ways that it has shaped our development and our society. Continue reading
What Am I Doing With This Blog?
The purpose of this blog Continue reading
ScienceBlogs = ZombieBlogs
Adios, Adieu, Tchsüss, Auf Wiedersehen … Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow/That I shall say good night till it be morrow. Continue reading
SMG/Sb Ethical Lapse Claims Another ‘SciBling’
I am deeply saddened that my friend and colleague, Bora, is leaving scienceblogs. Continue reading
Parrots, People and Pedagogies: A Look at Teaching and Education
An interesting technique for increasing active student participation in the classroom, improving reading comprehension and familiarizing students with quickly reading and evaluation scientific manuscripts whilst decreasing boredom and that passive classroom atmosphere that gets in the way of actual learning Continue reading
MT4 –> WP = Chewing Razor Blades
Moving 4.5 years of blog entries, images and reader comments from an MT4 blog platform to WP is nothing less challenging than trying to complete an IronMan athletic event, except it’s three days past midnight after the day of the competition (Ironman competitions traditionally end at midnight of the same day they start) and I am still struggling. Continue reading
Brostitution and Brostitutes
Okay, speaking of “what is family”; this video is a humorous trailer for an imaginary documentary that takes a closer look at the seedy world of brostitution and brostitutes. Brostitutes are men who provide companionship to lonely men .. scientists and doctors, for example .. in exchange for money. This film digs deeper than any other film has when it comes to this secret world of bro-on-bro non-sexual love for profit. Continue reading →