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3Sage advice for evolutionary psychologists from Jonathan Marks and Dan Fessler
3Are we hypocrites when it comes to creativity?
15Psychic Sally gets trolled by a fictional spirit.
10Putin's gonna steal your voter virginity.
7Cool story, bro. Phyllis Schlafly gets a mention.
8Right wing groups announce plan to do absolutely nothing pray for the repeal of Obamacare. Kill the poor for Jesus!
9Paris Lees pens a beautiful and inspiring response to a transphobic Daily Fail hatchet job.
10A Picture of Rick Santorum... made of gay porn!Too low rsolution to be NSFW, though.
7Germans and their beer...
7This does seem to be biased to those with facial hair, though.
2Teller ponders why "those who fund science research find magicians 'sexier than lab rats'" and the effect this fascination may have on science.
1The significance of Meryl Dorey’s insignificance.
5BBC is slowly turning into the next TV Tropes.
6You learn something new everyday: Greek workers spend the most hours on the job in Europe.
9 "Has he had the surgery yet?", "I look like such a tranny today", "CIS? What does that mean?", "I'll call you 'she' when you get the surgery". Shit CIS people say to trans people.
19On comparing the healthcare systems of Los Angeles and London, one woman comes up with a "surprising" result. (And if you check the worst rated comments, you get to see the resident Daily Fail readers trying to figure out exactly how this could possibly have come about)
8President Harry Truman and Mitt Romney have both delivered speeches to an empty stadium. The difference is that Truman was a great president, and Romney is a crass asshole.
11Lewis Black, don't get a heart attack. Also, why is Nancy Grace still on TV?
6Coming soon, to a theater near you...
6Identical twins not so identical after all.
4TED: Wave of the future or Silicon Valley shills?
14A natural disaster that cost the lives of thousands of people was ignored in favour of a nuclear 'disaster' that never was.
2This is BBC News taken out of context.
13All dead Mormons are now gay. (Unless they died in the Holocaust.)
8Barack Obama is a total failure at all the things conservatives predicted he would do or not do.
13Given the number of comments by Christians, politicians and the Daily Fail clogging up the media at the moment, Martin Robbins suggests that Christians should embrace secularism - because (from the comments) secularism doesn't consist of Richard Dawkins breaking into people's homes and stealing their Bibles at gunpoint, you know.
4Good Guy Bill.
11The punanny state. Also, Stalin-rape.
13Newt Gingrich: "You can't put a gun rack in a Chevy Volt." Vlogger: Oh, really?
13The Onion: One in five Americans believe Obama is a cactus.
7Brian Cox (*swoon*) on why quantum theory is so misunderstood, and why good science should be part popular culture.
3"The Right-Wing Id Unzipped"
4Look how far they've gone...into the ground. And if the worst scenario happens in November, we'll only have one terrible actor to blame.
13Damn you Jon Stewart!
5Some parts of a Catholic sex education programme have been tracked to an unusual source - Beasts of Gor
Cue the "One promotes a world where women are secondary and subservient to men in all ways and have no control over there own thoughts and destiny, the other is Chronicles of Gor" jokes.
4A list of UK politicians that stand to benefit from passing a new health reform bill.
15George Takei: 70 years ago today, the President signed a decree that sent me and my family to a prison camp. Hear my story, and learn how you can help fulfil our pledge: Never Forget. Never Again.
5How simple patents became the complex clusterfuck of intellectual property.
15Karen Santorum, wife of Rick Santorum, wrote a book teaching children good manners. And its foreword is by Joe Paterno, the guy who knew about, but did nothing to stop, a child rapist. Great pick, Santorum!
21The godly John Cleese responds to YouTube comments. "I think the problem with people like this is that they are so stupid that they have no idea how stupid they are...this explains not just Hollywood, but almost the entirety of Fox News."
5Honestly, Peta's ads make me so angry I could stamp on a kitten.
7This week in Harperland...
13Supposedly professional Politico reporter mistakes the Wisconsin state flag for the local labor union flag. Hail the future of journalism!
13Every climate denial argument debunked, in one 50 minute presentation. If there's one video to spread around the Internets, it's this.
10If movie posters were a bit more descriptive.
20I suppose they'll come back for us. Basic civil rights for trans people sidelined again for the sake of same-sex marriage in Maryland.
7Charles Murray isn't racist -- he also hates (poor) white people!
10The climate inquisition continues, including death threats.
18Why don't Americans elect scientists? For lulz, see the comments, where one retard said "Solyndra."
12Ah, the good old days...when there were none of those pesky institutional review boards or ethics committees and scientists could deliberately infect subjects with STDs.
8The greatest movie trailer of all time?
11America, Fuck Yeah!
-12Shut up and take my money!
-9The YouTube guide to parenting.
18I'm a Jehovah's Witness and I run a business. Can I deny insurance coverage for blood transfusions?(Warning: Poe's Law in action!)
10The "best" swag at CPAC.
12The "Every Sperm is Sacred" Lady speaks out.
16The Onion: Iran Worried U.S. Might Be Building 8,500th Nuclear Weapon. Invade! Invade!
-10Dilbert drops the f-bomb in a comic. Kinda.
22Ellen pwns the wingnuts. UPDATE: Bill O'Reilly has something to say on the matter. In Ellen's favour.
9"WikiDate" - a privacy clusterfuck.
11Five big lies about the phony 'war on religion'
11 What liberal bias? The CBC's latest literature panel includes a fascist crank who defends Augusto Pinochet's regime and considers Nelson Mandela to be a terrorist.
7The despicable behavior by some, including but not limited to psychic frauds, towards families of missing persons.
18Bill Nye (the science guy) is at the Second White House Science Fair - and not a single creationist in sight!
10Why people still use Facebook.
17Charlie Brooker on the two Daily Heils.
4Neo-phrenology and neurobabble.
12Even the creationists don't like Indiana Senate Bill 89.
8Comments speak for themselves.
4Protip: Never give this kind of power to the Internet.
11A visualization of the 2011 Japanese earthquakes. Just keep watching...
1Paul Krugman: Despite recent offshoring of U.S. manufacturing to China, 85% of U.S. consumer spending still makes its way to U.S. firms.
18The actual gay agenda vs. what conservatives think is the gay agenda.
10The Onion: "Look, one-third of the human race has to die for civilization to be sustainable, so how do we want to do this?"
6A Hitchslap from beyond the grave: Christopher Hitchens on why William Lane Craig's brand of pernicious nonsense is not merely foolish, but dangerous.
6So, a Catholic, an Anglican and a humanist walk into a bar say what they would put on their cards, if they carried them.
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