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Only… it’s not Black Widow, the only female Avenger that apparently made the poster cut, who has to torsion her spine out of alignment so we can see her breasts and hindquarters simultaneously. Oh no. Not this time. Below the fold.
Archive for February, 2012
New Avengers poster features a boobs-and-ass comic book pose!
February 29th, 2012 
Jason Thibeault 
Posted in Geekery, Gender, Movies 
Tags: Avengers, Black Widow, Captain America, comics, feminism, Hawkeye, Hulk, Iron Man, male gaze, Nick Fury, Thor 
21 Comments »Conservative election dirty tricks in Waterloo; possibly elsewhere
February 29th, 2012 Jason Thibeault Our good friend Steve Thoms, a.k.a Some Canadian Skeptic, is apparently interviewed in The Record discussing some dirty tricks by Conservatives in our recent national election. I know, shock and horror, how could the Conservative Party of Canada have to resort to foul play to win an election when they are so obviously the paragons [...]
Posted in Canada, Politics Tags: Canada, cheating, Conservatives, Harper, politics, Steve Thoms, Waterloo 10 Comments »Religion in video games: more problematic than reality?
February 28th, 2012 Jason Thibeault Via Kotaku, Aliasalpha and Glendon Mellow both brought to my attention a study by Greg Perrault, a doctorate student in the University of Missouri School of Journalism, which claims that video games present a problematized view of religion that is somehow unique amongst other media. More specifically, it is that these video games which feature [...]
Even turtle porn is adorable
February 28th, 2012 Jason Thibeault Longtime readers will, I’ve no doubt, recognize that I have a bit of a thing for turtles. Our Lady of Perpetual Win certainly noticed, and sent along a link to Ed Yong’s slideshow at Not Rocket Science showing a pair of green turtles near Sri Lanka actually mating. Yeah, that’s right, put on the Barry [...]
What will your kids be taught about climate science?
February 27th, 2012 Jason Thibeault Ezra Klein’s coverage of the NCSE stepping into the climate change battleground is very timely, and asks many very relevant questions. One revelation from the recent Heartland Institute document leak is that the group is crafting a K-12 curriculum to teach kids that global warming is “controversial.” Heartland officials have confirmed this. So is climate [...]
Posted in Climate, Religion, Science Tags: climate change, evolution, global warming, religion, science, separation of cu 14 Comments »The Lorax used to sell SUVs
February 27th, 2012 Jason Thibeault Via Badass Digest, easily some of the most cynical and tone-deaf marketing I’ve ever seen. Remember The Lorax? The Dr. Seuss classic with heavy environmentalist overtones? The story about how corporations will destroy the environment to make a buck and it’s entirely up to the reader to preserve said environment? Well, Mazda apparently convinced the [...]
Trick to going faster than light: loosen some cables
February 26th, 2012 Jason Thibeault Evidently the first thing the folks at OPERA should have done when going over all their lab results after they found neutrinos beating the speed of light by 60ns (also covered further, and further still, previously on my blog), was to check all the cables. According to sources familiar with the experiment, the 60 nanoseconds [...]
Posted in Science Tags: faster than light, LAN administration, neutrinos, OPERA, science, superluminous neutrinos 9 Comments »Not one of us is a token
February 25th, 2012 Jason Thibeault On my own blog, an argument came up — while I was so slammed with work as to be all but totally disengaged from the greater blogohedron — that just happened to become extraordinarily timely through a coincidental confluence that bears mentioning. Liam, on an older post, defended the idea that people encouraging diversity were [...]
Posted in Blogosphere, Gender, Privilege Tags: atheism, blogosphere, community, diversity, privilege, skepticism, tokenism 43 Comments »Cell phones annoying, says science
February 25th, 2012 Jason Thibeault Cellular phone technology has come under scrutiny in recent years — meaning, since it has come into popular use — by technophobes and technostress victims alike. Despite being evidently harmless, innumerable claims of it causing cancer, tinnitus, headaches, and any number of non-specific symptoms have emerged such that many scientific studies have been undertaken to [...]
Posted in Medicine, Science Tags: cancer, cell phones, electromagnetic radiation, EMF, medicine, science 3 Comments »Full-out Atheist On Atheist War!
February 24th, 2012 Jason Thibeault Oh holy shit, we’re talking honest-to-goodness internecene throwdowns happening all along the Great Atheist Rift! Crommunist fired the first shot, like Franz Ferdinand himself, declaring that anyone who likes cats must naturally be infected by toxoplasmosis, which is the only explanation why anyone would subject themselves the nonsense that is a cat’s existence.
Posted in Blogosphere, Humour Tags: blogosphere, cats, dogs, otters, pie fight, turtles 21 Comments »
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