We all know people like that

Translation:
Waiter: Beer?
Nerd: No.
Girl: Are you driving?
Nerd: No, I'm just the obnoxious type who drinks nothing but water.

If You Open Your Mind Too Much...

One more jackass

Now I know who I was missing from Skepchick's list: Your Holiness (not mine, for sure), Pope Benedict XVI. Check out these remarks just before Christmas. Too bad there is no hell...

Skepchick's top ten jackasses of 2008

From a skeptic point of view. Great list.

If I were a driver...

... and you were a passenger. Plus, it's eletric.

Lucky dude

What a place to be!

A new hope

TMS for depression is finally beyond clicical trials. Still expensive (6k for a course of 20-30 sessions) though, but not prohibitively so.

Who is your daddy?

You can call him LUCA.

What is the harm?

This sentence (and variations) are a common comment of people who think pseudoscience, alternative medicine, religion and woo in general can not harm. Some reality to them: all these things can harm and kill. Luckily we also have people who actually quantify the harm, going beyond anedotic evidence. Go there, check it out and recommend to all your friends who still think misinformation is not that bad. It is and science is WAY better than all this mystical nonsense. It is actually the only way.

What is the Harm?

How to lose your job because of Santa Claus

Primary school teacher who told children: 'Santa does not exist' is fired

By Daily Mail Reporter

A primary school teacher who left a class of 25 pupils in tears after she told told them Santa Claus did not exist has been fired..

When excited youngsters became rowdy as they talked about Santa, the supply teacher blurted out: 'It's your parents who leave out presents on Christmas Day.'
[...]

Not our fault this time

Dogs Understand Fairness, Get Jealous, Study Finds

Dogs have an intuitive understanding of fair play and become resentful if they feel that another dog is getting a better deal, a new study has found.

The study, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, looked at how dogs react when a buddy is rewarded for the same trick in an unequal way.
[...]

I'm an environmentalist now

Guantanamero, by RMS

Barack Obama has promised to shut down Guantanamo prison. Until there, listen to Richard M. Stallman's protest song.

Pretty cool

Interview with Rebecca Watson, the skepchick