RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/February 2019

February 2019

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Scott Alexander has killed kicked out the infamous regular Culture War thread from the companion subreddit to his Slate Star Codex blog - in part blaming "a left-wing wiki" (rationalwiki) and an unnamed subreddit (/r/sneerclub) for its ouster

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The people behind God's Not Dead are making a film about Planned Parenthood called Unplanned. Because when your entire reputation rests on bad-faith stereotyping of your cultural enemies, you might as well stay on brand.

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The return of Judeo-Bolshevism

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How Iran has changed in the four decades since the Islamic Revolution as Iran celebrates the fortieth anniversary of the Revolution

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Parents in America are reporting that due to the popularity of the British children's TV show Peppa Pig, their toddlers are starting to speak with an English accent and peppering their vocabulary with British English.

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What it means to be human: the evolution of laughter

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Six Darwin Day Poll Results from the Panda's Thumb

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Death, Nothingness, and Subjectivity: A Secular Case Against the Notion that Death is the End of all Experience

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Active shooter drills are tragically misguided