I share a lot of links on Twitter and Facebook that I don’t blog about because I don’t have much to add. The reading list is a periodic feature where I share those links with my blog audience too. Of course, you’re still welcome to follow me on Twitter.
Around FtB
- Catholic hospitals exist to provide “Christ-centered health care”–“Just when you think the Catholic theocrats can’t get any more disgusting, they surprise you.”
- “Coming Out Atheist” Is Out!–“Coming out as an atheist is a powerful, liberating act. It makes life better for yourself, for other atheists, and for the world.”
- Early Bird Pricing Extended for FBB Conference–“This conference, the first of its kind in the freethought community, centers on how nontheists can put their compassionate humanism to work for a better world.”
- Your Uninformed and Incorrect Opinions About Psychology–“I am tired of people with no experience or education (whether through formal schooling or one’s own research) presuming to condescendingly (and, at times, abusively and violently) talk down to those who do have that experience and education.”
- Support the 2014 First in the Family Humanist Scholarship Fund–“Last year, Black Skeptics Los Angeles (BSLA) spearheaded its First in the Family Humanist Scholarship initiative, which focuses on providing resources to undocumented, foster care, homeless and LGBTQ youth who will be the first in their families to go to college.”
- Illusory Bodies, or What If We Totally Confused Your Sense of Owning Your Body?–“Okay, but how do we do this? Creepy headless mannequins. Obviously.”
The Wider Web
- That beard is only hot because it’s not cool–“A style that really stands out sticks it to conformity. It turns out that when people buck the facial hair trend, they may end up making themselves more attractive.”
- What’s Missing from Journalists’ Tactic of Snagging Stories from Twitter? Respect.–“Testa obtained permission from every woman whose tweets were featured in her post, except Fox’s, whose Twitter profile photo was made into the thumbnail image for the post—meaning her face would appear every single time the post was shared.”
- Grabby Cabbies, Street Harassers, and Ferengi: About Last Weekend–“One of the first lessons I learned in Getting Street Harassed University was Just Keep Going Because Maybe He Will Decide to Murder You and People Will Say It Was Your Fault.”
- Fake Geek Guys: A Message to Men About Sexual Harassment–“‘I will find you. I will hurt you. I will physically violate you… for being wrong about Spider-Man.'”
- Project Light-Bright–If you’ve ever wanted a bio-luminescent protein named after you, here’s your chance.
- New book exhorts atheists to ‘come out’ of the closet–“So why shouldn’t atheists take a page from the homosexual playbook? In the past decade or so, many atheist and humanist leaders have begun to openly acknowledge they can learn from those who fought for equality before them.”
- Why the New Data Journalism Really Is Partisan–“If you have followed analysts on the right, even the best-informed ones, you have wallowed in a world of self-delusion.”
- Your penis is getting in the way of my science–“We know that the cosmos is full of strange and unknown phenomena. But we can’t bring ourselves to believe that the worlds of sex and sex roles could ever deviate from what we’ve been told is good and right among Homo sapiens.”
- Free Speech–“It’s just that the people listening think you’re an asshole”
- What Are Misogynist Geeks So Afraid Of?–“What’s the worst thing that could happen if women were able to write criticisms of the objectification and marginalization of female characters in comic books and video games, all without being silenced and derailed with a bunch of abuse from Dudes With Serious Issues?”
- Editors Resign as Retraction Scandal Deepens at Science Journal That Caved in to Intimidation from Climate Deniers–“In an effort to deflect the growing backlash from scientists and negative media reports, the journal has issued false statements, changed its story on the retraction and exposed the authors of the paper to reputational damage.”