Weekend Links - October 15, 2016

[he_who_is_nobody]

• Dear Donald Trump: I played in the NFL. Here’s what we really talk about in the locker room.
  
  Science Is Not Colonialism
  
  Archaeology: Wyandotte Nation's new center aims to restore lost culture
  
  Update/Correction: Publishers of anti-LGBT ‘special report’ doth protest too much
  
  New technique offers glimpse at human evolution in action
  
  Drivers of evolution hidden in plain sight
  
  Extraterrestrial impact preceded ancient global warming event
  
  Building blocks of life's building blocks come from starlight
  
  Experiment achieves the strongest coupling between light and matter
  
  Oldest known squawk box suggests dinosaurs likely did not sing
  
  Breakthrough opens door to study hallucinations scientifically
  
  Proxima Centauri might be more sunlike than we thought
  
  Empowering preschool children with the language of math adds up to stronger skills
  
  Best of Last Week–Building the smallest transistor, maximum human lifespan reached and awarding of Nobel science prizes

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[Visaki]

Science Is Not Colonialism

I'd want to ask if people like her are taken seriously anywhere, but I am afraid of the answer.

 

[WarK]

Science Is Not Colonialism

I'd want to ask if people like her are taken seriously anywhere, but I am afraid of the answer.

Yeah, I cringed so hard. And then, the moderator told the guy who called bullshit on black magic to apologise. You know, safe spaces and all that shit. So sad to watch.

Tf00t made a vid about it.

 

[he_who_is_nobody]

Science Is Not Colonialism

I'd want to ask if people like her are taken seriously anywhere, but I am afraid of the answer.

The answer is YES. They are taken so seriously, that one of them could be the next president of the U.S. This is what happens when people think their gut trumps empirical evidence.