RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/March 2013
March 2013[edit]
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Capitalism and Slavery, redux. |
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The Pagan Sausage Machine Fallacy: on retconning religious histories. |
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Video game blog Rock, Paper, Shotgun reveals one of their writers is *shudder* female. Commenters go nuts. RPS then unleashes the snarkasm. |
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The Onion, on how the Supreme Court should handle the marriage equality cases. |
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Church of England claims 4 out of 5 people in the UK believe in the power of prayer. Turns out they're not so clear on that 9th commandment. |
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BuzzFeed documents some unreasonably angry Daily Mail commentors. |
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So it turns out science makes you more moral. (in one study with a small and very WEIRD sample) |
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Opponents of same-sex marriage are obsessed with what goes on in the bedroom? Who would have guessed? |
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Cecil Adams digs into the screaming flesh surrounding the Zombie Apocalypse. |
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Software developer fired for making childish/sexist jokes during a tech conference. Woman who called him out also fired. |
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The Bronze Dog has a nice, concise post about privacy, the surveillance society and Google Glass |
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Cracked: 5 Ways Statistics Are Used To Lie To You. |
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The latest synonym for financial chicanery: London Whale. |
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Immigrants and video games together, a Fox News nightmare come true. |
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"History" Channel's Satan may look like a certain black guy. (Glenn Beck likes it, unsurprisingly.) |
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So much for CNN being a tool of the "liberal media." (In all irony, The Onion predicted this back in 2011.) |
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Exposing PseudoAstronomy interviews a former BBC producer from the Apollo era on some of Richard Hoagland's (mostly NASA-related) conspiracies. |
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Racist preacher elected president of Brazil's Human Rights Commission (over a week old but I don't think we've noted it) |
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Cecil Adams gives us the Straight Dope on Pedophilia |
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The National Post believes it should have the right to copyright the titles of articles.(citation not needed or we'll get sued!) |
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Sky News reporter gets detained by Chinese police, hilarity ensues. |
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From a urine accumulation to "Adam" himself: 7 things that are older than Ken Ham’s universe. |
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How to stop media leaks: Dig out the polygraph! (Hint to whistleblowers/leakers: Read our article, or watch QI season E, episode 7, for some tips on how to cheat it.) |
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Worth another look: To commemorate the election of Pope Francis I, Cracked.com has reposted this 5½ year old article it calls "The 5 Biggest Badass Popes" to its front page. |
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11 Most Absurd Lies Conservatives Are Using to Brainwash America's School Kids |
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"Soviet killer dolphins on the loose in the Black Sea." We're boned. |
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Whoops, there's two Bitcoin chains, because the maths wasn't so good after all. But they'll eventually merge! In the meantime, stop mining, and your transactions are juuuust fine. Probably. Not that anyone can fix it. A reminder that Bitcoin is not yet 1.0. |
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Notorious copyright trolls Prenda Law are about to get ripped several new ones by a very angry Federal judge. (Prenda who? Background on the case, h/t to Ken at Popehat) |
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"Sanctity of marriage" argument destroyed in a little over a minute. |
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A convenient map of post-election GOP infighting. |
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Why North Korea will fall faster than anyone would've expected. |
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So... Feminist Frequency starts a series on sexist topics in video games. The men decide they to respond with some videos of their own, but the guy in charge has run off with the money. |
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I used to be a professional psychic. I was a fraud. Ask me anything. |
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"Obama, Congress Must Reach Deal On Budget By March 1, And Then April 1, And Then April 20, And Then April 28, And Then May 1, And Then Twice A Week For Next Four Years." The header on the page says it's The Onion, but the way the news has looked lately you'd be forgiven for thinking it was actually CNN. |
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Could the European far-right find common cause with fundamentalist Islam? |
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Another wasteful study that shows acupuncture doesn't do anything. Let's be clear. Acupuncture is fucking junk medicine. |
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All the Republicans who voted against the Violence Against Women Act. You might recognize a few of them. |
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Roger Ebert: how I am a Roman Catholic |
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Big Placebo is relabeling homeopathic remedies as "supplements" to avoid the stigma of homeopathy. |
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Exposing Pseudoastronomy on Russian meteor conspiracy theories. |
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An interesting look at those who still think Congress is doing an OK job. |
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Yvain: Selecting the next pope for hilarity potential. Since all papabile look alike, includes pictures of people of similar-sounding names. |
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