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Sober Transgender Day of Remembrance, everyone.
Alex Knapp at Forbes thoroughly decorticates Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) for claiming the age of the Earth (which he doesn’t know) isn’t related to our economic and general welfare.
(via @BadAstronomer)
Now-former-Rep. Allen West (R-FL) [pictured] finally concedes.
PZ Myers shines some contextual light on the current kerfuffle over Sam Harris’s 2006-era comments about how “[i]f [he] could wave a magic wand to get rid of either rape or religion, [he] would not hesitate to get rid of religion”.
And finally, more awesomeness about the promise of stem cell research: Dogs with paralyzing spinal injuries learn to walk again.
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