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

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January 2019[edit]

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32So 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.
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8How capable were ancient hominids of crossing large gaps of ocean water?
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9Is ancient DNA revealing new truths - or falling into old traps? Why some archaeologists are uneasy about the new field of paleogenomics
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13Why PE classes may actually increase truancy and discipline rates in students
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65 Red Hats are the new white hoods
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55How 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
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35PZ 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."
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-23I failed the Covington Catholic Test
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24 One month after porn purge, white nationalists are still thriving on Tumblr
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44 How (and why) Americans were taught to hate atheists
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-8"In God We Trust": The bill Christian fundamentalists hope to use to "protect religious freedom"
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17The 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".
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16How climate change caused the world's first empire to collapse
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12A Frozen History of Climate Change in Pictures: Digging Deep into the Ice Shelves of Greenland
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6Who’s more compassionate, Republicans or Democrats?
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15Is the greatest threat to civilization, that is, climate change getting worse?
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16FACT CHECK: Trump's Oval Office Pitch for a Border Wall
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12The mother-daughter team behind the 'scientifically unsupported' Myers-Briggs personality test
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2The Strange History and Stranger Planet of Barnard's Star
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32The New York Times: American Jews and Israeli Jews are headed for a messy breakup.
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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.)
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6Laws intended to protect firefighters who get cancer often lack teeth
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8Will Scientists be Smarter than Atheists? by famous evolutionary developmental biologist and feminist blogger PZ Myers
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14Charcoal, “toxins” and other forms of nonsense are the backbone of the wellness-industrial complex, writes obstetrician and gynaecologist Dr. Jen Gunter
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21If we lose the free press, we cease to be a democracy
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8"I Don’t Hate Women Candidates — I Just Hated Hillary and Coincidentally I’m Starting to Hate Elizabeth Warren"