by Carl Howard | Sep 29, 2015 | Atrocities and Oppression, Ethics, Race, Science and Skepticism
[CN: Racism and racist violence (esp. in the video)] Itamar Rose is an Israeli who makes satirical social experiment films on issues considered taboo and contentious [largely to an Israeli audience]. Some examples of videos he was involved in: Seeing how many...
by Carl Howard | Sep 22, 2015 | Feminism and LGBT, Science and Skepticism
The last 12 months have seen a lot of media coverage of women’s representation in gaming, coding and the tech industry. Most of the steps so far have been cultural (eg. responses to Gamergate) but there has been some direct action. The loudest being Intel pledging...
by Carl Howard | Sep 15, 2015 | Biases and Fallacies, History
If there’s one thing I love to hate-read more than anti-smartphone moral panics (see some previous examples), it’s anti-tech memes. They distill the moral panic clearly, without much chance to obfuscate. They also get shared a lot. Recently I saw someone share an...
by Carl Howard | Sep 8, 2015 | Biases and Fallacies, Feminism and LGBT, Language, Race
I’m sure you’ve seen the one-line that’s the title of this post: Although the above joke is about vegans, it’s a standard template used against lots of other groups (as we’ll see below). An interesting connection to the vegan version of the joke is the countless times...
by Carl Howard | Sep 1, 2015 | Atheism and Religion, Philosophy, Science and Skepticism
I haven’t written about the ‘science vs religion’ thing for ages, but an article caught my attention –– first because I thought it was ridiculous and later because it did force me to think about using scientific metaphors, which is always a positive. It’s The Missing...
by Carl Howard | Aug 25, 2015 | Biases and Fallacies, Ethics, Medicine, Mind, Psychology and Consciousness
Here’s a belated liveblog of the panel, which I thought would be focussed on making our definition of wellness more scientific but was actually about the wellness (ie. CAM) industry. There’s also a podcast about the panel on Radio National. DO NOT READ THE COMMENTS ON...
