I quote from the latest news update released by the Guttmacher Institute. “One-third of U.S. pregnancies occur within 18 months of a previous birth, according to “Short Interpregnancy Intervals in the United States,” by Laura Lindberg of the Guttmacher Institute et al., while 50% occurred within 18–59 months, and 16%
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Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Instruction Manual For Life – Theramin Soup
Two of my favourite ytubers have collaborated to make a compelling story which fits very nicely into the DWR Sunday Disservice. Enjoy. 🙂 Filed under: Religion Tagged: Instruction Manual for life, Religion, The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Stuff Than Makes You Think – The Double Slit Experiment
Wave-particle duality is just one on a huge list of phenomena that we cannot intuitively understand. 1veritasium does a nice job of walking us through the steps and sharing the science behind the experiment. Filed under: Science Tagged: Double Slit Experiment, Science
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Why the Anti-Choice Position is Wrong.
PZ Myers discusses abortion and how asinine the anti-choice positions actually are. From the article Abortion rights are human rights. […] However, the equivalence of mother and fetus is an untenable proposition. A mouse has more complexity and autonomy than a fetus, and we don’t even hesitate when the choice
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Marvel Heroes Review – Meh?
Guess which heroes you start out with – and guess which ones cost 20 Dollars to play. Having some more free time on my hands, I decided to try out the new free to play Action-RPG Marvel Heroes. My impression is that the game suffers from exactly what happened to
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Violence Against Women – A Men’s Issue.
An interesting talk about changing the cultural values that are toxic in nature. He didn’t mention patriarchy, but was alluding to the concept throughout his entire talk. I’m not sure if this was a conscious choice or not, but it is interesting that a speaker who is talking explicitly about
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Are Looks Everything – Maybe not, Sayeth Cameron Russell
Cameron Russell shows us the power of image and how our perceptions shape our reality. Filed under: Education Tagged: Power, Privilege, Race, The importance of Looks
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Damsel in Distress Part 2 – Anita Sarkeesian
Ms.Sarkeesian continues her video series about the misogyny prevalent in video games. Filed under: Feminism, Gaming Tagged: Anita Sarkeesian, Tropes vs Women, Video Games
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Anarchism vs. Libertarianism – Noam Chomsky
The uniquely toxic form of libertarianism in the US and is a symptom of private power and influence run amok. This is just a snippet of the interview with Noam Chomsky, I recommend you go read the entire article on Alternet. Wilson: Why should we choose anarchy, as opposed
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice: Ray Comfort – Lying for Jesus
One would think that such a strong believer in biblical “morality” would you not be such an dishonest bag of rats – Ray Comfort is the poster child for everything that is wrong with organized religion, so let’s watch as he is caught, yet again, creating falsehood and deception
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: QotD on ’empowerment’
Reblogged from Anti-Porn Feminists: The buzz word in popular feminism today is empowerment. When I became a feminist many years ago, the word we used was liberation. Unlike empowerment, liberation is a collective concept which means that even if my life is all rosy and “empowered,” it doesn’t mean shit
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Again, “Pro-Life” is Death for Women – Beatriz in El Salvador
How many more examples do we need of the lethal nature of the supposedly “pro-life” position? Let’s clear this up by naming them correctly, for the record, when you hear the term “Pro-life” you need to replace that with “anti-woman forced birth advocate”. Why? Because what forced birthers are about
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Joy of Assholery!
Observe. 🙂 Filed under: Humour Tagged: Humour
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Thursday Musical Interlude – The Rite of Spring’s 100th Anniversary.
The base 10 anniversaries are always important. 🙂 Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring debuted 100 years ago today. Enjoy his music visualized by Stephen Malinowski and the info from Wikipedia. Part I: The Adoration of the Earth The opening melody is played by a solo bassoon in a very
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Women are Bitches
Like it is hard to find patriarchy on the Internets. It’s easy to think that the misogyny is just a feature of the those who just don’t know better, or who espouse a certain set of values like the dear followers of the GOP in the US. But no, when
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Order of Operations is Wrong
Oh BEDMASS my reliable guide, you were actually lying to me all this time. Filed under: Science Tagged: Betrayed!, Humour, Math Literacy, Order of Operations
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – The Power of Prayer.
It’s a simple test really, the omnipotent god of the universe who cherishes us so should use her mighty powers to have a limb regrow. Easy right? But then again, miracles only happened 2000 years ago(ish) so we are fresh out luck. Filed under: Atheism, Religion Tagged: Christianity, DWR
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Gendered Cheese!
*sigh* Like the gender binary needs more reinforcement… Thanks to Dr. Lisa Wade over at Sociological Images for the pic and commentary. “Dieting is for women. I mean we all know that dieting and women go together like peas and carrots. We know this — collectively and together, even if
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Hey I sang that!
Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s Day. Just finished singing this in choir, great piece and as usual, the tenor part is the hardest.. 🙂 Filed under: Music Tagged: Choral Music, The DWR Friday Musical Interlude
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