Teen Skepchick’s Reality Checks 8.1
- What makes a good sing-a-long song? (via Wired)
- How do magicians know what card you’re thinking of? Psychology. (via Scientific American)
- Olympic weightlifter responds to sexist tweets in the best way possible. (via Think Progress)
- Malaria can become more virulent after a few generations of being bested by vaccines. (via Not Exactly Rocket Science)
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The sing-along-song link is broken/missing.
Thanks! It’s now fixed!
Not that it has any relevance whatsoever to the Olympics, I absolutely do not get how or why critics are calling Zoe Smith ugly, or saying she looks like a “bloke”.
I think pictures of Zoe should be distributed to whomever is making the next superhero flick. “You want to cast someone pretty as a female superhero? Fine–but she should look like this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/18906465
Not like this:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1740828/
I agree. I don’t understand either. Is it the physical power that she obviously possesses? Is physical strength exclusively associated with men, so any woman who displays that trait must be look like a man? I don’t get it.
I’d watch whatever movie a superheroine who looks like Zoe might appear in. Possibly twice.