RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/January 2019
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January 2019[edit]
   | 32 | So much for living the libertarian dream. $200 million (CDN) lost by users of BC-based Bitcoin exchange Quadriga as founder and sole director reported dead, taking his passwords with him. |
| 8 | How capable were ancient hominids of crossing large gaps of ocean water? |
| 9 | Is ancient DNA revealing new truths - or falling into old traps? Why some archaeologists are uneasy about the new field of paleogenomics |
| 13 | Why PE classes may actually increase truancy and discipline rates in students |
| 65 | Red Hats are the new white hoods |
| 55 | How the Christian Gospels More Resemble the works of fiction produced in the time they were written in than actual works of history produced during the same period |
| 35 | PZ Myers on the train wreck that was New Atheism: "[I] figured that [post 9/11 xenophobia/fanaticism] would pass, that people would step in the door and then find enduring meaning in science and evidence-based reasoning. Boy, was I wrong." |
| -23 | I failed the Covington Catholic Test |
| 24 | One month after porn purge, white nationalists are still thriving on Tumblr |
| 44 | How (and why) Americans were taught to hate atheists |
| -8 | "In God We Trust": The bill Christian fundamentalists hope to use to "protect religious freedom" |
| 17 | The truth behind the Blue Whale Challenge, the latest internet moral panic: Russian teens were sharing blue whale memes and supposedly performing a 50 step online challenge where step 50 was "Kill yourself". |
| 16 | How climate change caused the world's first empire to collapse |
| 12 | A Frozen History of Climate Change in Pictures: Digging Deep into the Ice Shelves of Greenland |
| 6 | Who’s more compassionate, Republicans or Democrats? |
| 15 | Is the greatest threat to civilization, that is, climate change getting worse? |
| 16 | FACT CHECK: Trump's Oval Office Pitch for a Border Wall |
| 12 | The mother-daughter team behind the 'scientifically unsupported' Myers-Briggs personality test |
| 2 | The Strange History and Stranger Planet of Barnard's Star |
| 32 | The New York Times: American Jews and Israeli Jews are headed for a messy breakup. |
| 12 | "Listening to Young Atheists: Lessons for a Stronger Christianity." Short version: the shallow theology of modern Christianity produced short-term growth, but bred a generation of atheists in the long run. (New Atheism actually factored surprisingly little into many young people's decisions to abandon religion.) |
| 6 | Laws intended to protect firefighters who get cancer often lack teeth |
| 8 | Will Scientists be Smarter than Atheists? by famous evolutionary developmental biologist and feminist blogger PZ Myers |
| 14 | Charcoal, “toxins” and other forms of nonsense are the backbone of the wellness-industrial complex, writes obstetrician and gynaecologist Dr. Jen Gunter |
| 21 | If we lose the free press, we cease to be a democracy |
| 8 | "I Don’t Hate Women Candidates — I Just Hated Hillary and Coincidentally I’m Starting to Hate Elizabeth Warren" |