OMG: Source. The only fossils of kangaroos that have ever been found are in Australia and New Guinea and the islands near there. They have never been in the Middle East. EVER! Seriously. They don’t give you any evidence here. They just say that they have to have been in the Middle East because that’s […]

Apenas algumas linhas antes de rumar a Lisboa para participar no Congresso SciCom 2013. A minha participação passou pelo (honroso) convite para fazer parte da Comissão Científica, ter avaliado bastantes abstracts, dois pósters (“Das Igrejas Às Calçadas: Geologia e Paleontologia Urbanas no Algarve” e “Um Gravador e Pessoas: divulgar a Ciência na rádio”). No último [...]

This month’s Skepchick Challenge: Yessenia of Queereka has agreed to part with every last hair on her head if we can reach our goal of raising $2,500 by June 4 to send students to the Secular Student Alliance Conference in Las Vegas this June. That amount will cover travel, lodging, and conference fees for 20 students, 10 from SAC City Freethinkers and 10 from the Atheists and Skeptics Society at Berkeley (BASS). Students are the future (and arguably the present) of the movement, […]

We’re so familiar with the current configuration of the planets in the Solar System, but did the planets always orbit in this way? Did they form further out and then migrate inward to their current positions? And what about other star systems out there? Ep. 301: Planetary Migration Jump to Shownotes Jump to Transcript Show [...]

She has that golden retriever Zen-like expression on her face. You know she’s content.