A white man discusses the gullibility of religious children while his face and by line hover over two children of color studying religious texts.

The imagery of this article reflects the utter racist cluelessness that has long become the calling card of online atheism.

You're on a very promising first date and find out that your chosen restaurant only provides menus, ordering, and payment via scanning a QR code with your phone. No cash accepted.

Your date politely says this is a discriminatory practice and a bad #privacy and #DataSecurity situation. You:

(Hey, not to grovel for boosts, but I'd love it if this got wide exposure.)

Planets might be more common throughout the #Universe than previously thought.

The ingredients for #planet formation have turned up in part of a nearby #galaxy where it was thought #planets might not emerge.

Researchers looked at NGC 346, a highly active star-forming region in a galaxy near the Milky Way called the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC).

Theu found enough #dust to indicate planet formation was possible.

#astronomy #astrobiology
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01418-x?utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=nature&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1682352793-1

My advice to students: use an image when its message is more succinct, direct, meaningful than words.

The #ShowYourStripes team has done just that. They have made it easy to see how #ClimateChange — via #temperature changes — has affected different locations around the world.

Go to https://showyourstripes.info/c/globe

#climate #dataviz #GlobalWarming

h/t @jgpausas @ed_hawkins

According to the current list of #bannedbooks as collected by #PEN, the Frisco Independent School District in #Texas has apparently banned #TheLordOfTheRings and #TheHobbit by #JRRTolkien.

It’s a mind boggling assembly of works and authors on this list. Aside from brilliant fiction like Tolkien and @neilhimself, the list includes names like #StephenHawking or #MartinLutherKingJr.

Truly, the list is an astonishing monument to willful ignorance, perfidy and malice.

https://pen.org/index-of-school-book-bans-2022/

Time for another game?

Taken at the Breakers (Vanderbilt) mansion in Newport RI.

#Photography #Photo #TravelPhotography #Photographer #BlackAndWhitePhoto #BlackAndWhitePhotography #Art #ArtBooster #Monochrome #BlackAndWhite #Prints #MastoArt #FediArt #AYearForArt #Canon #CanonDSLR #Photos #Photograph #PhotoArt #PhotographyLovers #RhodeIsland #NewportRI #PlayingCards #GrandfatherClock #Reflections

something that is extremely frustrating and has happened more than I'd like: hearing "but everyone's a little autistic, right?" coming from neurotypical people who are desperately trying to invalidate our existence.

I have a couple of points I'd like to make about this, both as an AuDHD individual and as a neuroscientist studying neurodivergence:

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#autism #AuDHD #ADHD #neuroscience #neurodivergence