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Bleeding Cool has run a number of articles showing how Marvel is encouraging retailers to order more and more of their Avengers Vs X-Men series, to the extent that for the first issue they are all but giving it away, while for subsequent issues, they are using variant covers to keep the orders high through… Dr Manolis Vamvounis pops by Bleeding Cool to share some thoughts about Catwoman #7. Um, hi.
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A new study shows that religious people have as much sex as atheists, but with less sexual satisfaction and more guilt.
Greta Christina's Blog: Atheists Do It Better: Why Leaving Religion Leads to Better Sex
Earth and other unlikely worlds
I've mentioned before that when I was a practising research scientist I investigated symbioses between animals and unicellular algae, and my chief experimental organism was the humble green hydra .
The Mary Sue - A Guide To Girl Geek Culture
There have been a lot of words spilled about LEGO’s controversial Friends line, designed, according to the company, as an attempt to pull in the girl demographic to the construction toy. A reasoning that rang jarringly to observers who pointed out that the company in fact had a completely gender neutral toy, that they had once marketed in that way, but for the past couple of decades had marketed it exclusively to boys, rarely building any female figurines for use with its sets or featuring any girls playing with the toys in their ads .
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Warning: this comic occasionally contains strong language (which may be unsuitable for children), unusual humor (which may be unsuitable for adults), and advanced mathematics (which may be unsuitable for liberal-arts majors).
Butterflies and Wheels
I still have faith in feminism, because I’m fortunate enough to interact with real feminists every day—women in Afghanistan who aren’t willing to compromise on their demand for rights in the name of culture or identity—and who risk their lives every day to express their belief in the idea that human rights are universal.For once, there’s no need for the West Coast to envy the East Coast or vice versa. This weekend marks not only CFI’s Women in Secularism conference, where our very own Rebecca and Surly Amy are sure to kick some ass, but the Orange County Freethought Alliance Conference (held at my alma mater — go Anteaters!), where I will be making my skeptical public speaking debut with a talk entitled “Push and Pull: The Role of Religion in Social Justice.”
Skepchick
One of my very earliest memories is playing in the ocean with my dad. I was probably four years old, must have been southern California. We were out in the water up to his waist.
The Whore of All the Earth
Especially when our culture so commonly handles grief with religion... in ways that are so deeply ingrained, people often aren't aware of it?
Greta Christina's Blog
Feministing | Young Feminists Blogging, Organizing, Kicking Ass
Once again, Feministing is partnering with the Civil Liberties and Public Policy Conference, From Abortion Rights to Social Justice: Building the Movement for Reproductive Freedom, which will be held next weekend, April 13th-15th at Hampshire College.I am so late to the game, that all I can watch is replays.