Science & Society

Transphobia Rife in A Popular Style: Crunchyroll ’s Anime Mistranslations, and the Otoko-no-ko Trap

C runchyroll, Funimation and others have perpetuated the miseducation, and knowingly or unknowingly promoted anti LGBT bigotry in a generation of geeks in the western world.  Once people are miseducated it is really hard to reeducate them in the right way ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Jul 20 2018 - 11:51am

For The Love Of The Internet, Stop Sharing Bullshit

There is very little I love more than the world wide web. No, seriously, I mean it. Internet has changed my life more than any other "thing" around, and it has provided me with an enormous wealth- information, knowledge, simplification of otherwi ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 27 2018 - 4:47am

Illinois Education Association Proving Janus Right? Crooked Union Elections... A BIG MESS.

T he Illinois Education Association is a state level component of the National Education Association. As one of the largest teachers unions in the country it may represent your college professors and your college teachers. The actions of unions in the pas ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Aug 27 2018 - 3:12pm

Transsexual Dilation Time, One Scientist Experience

Dilation, the most misunderstood aspect of transsexual life.  Common misconceptions and vicious lies say that it is to keep open an oozing bleeding wound that will scab over and heal up like a cut without dilation.    NO.  It is painful ….it can be.  It i ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Sep 2 2018 - 4:47pm

UK Deserves A Right To Housing- And Living Alone

The worst effects of the UK’s housing crisis include rising levels of homelessness, and growing numbers of people being housed in unsafe or overcrowded conditions. According to the charity Crisis, 59,890 households were accepted as homeless in England in ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 3 2018 - 10:15pm

Censorship Throughout History

Once upon a time we all knew what censorship was, who the good and bad guys were, and what could be done to make the world a better place. Look up the noun “censor” in the Oxford English Dictionary and you’ll find an outline of a much-told story under def ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 9 2018 - 6:12pm

Easy To Improve On Wikipedia In Topic Focused Encyclopedias (Ours: Astrobiology, Microtonal Music, Doomsday Debunked & Buddhism)

This originated as my answer to a question on the Quora question and answer site: "In what general knowledge domains do alternatives to Wikipedia exist that are significantly superior?". Of course there are examples of much better specialist enc ...

Article - Robert Walker - Sep 17 2018 - 6:59am

Why Is A Non-Browning Apple Less 'Natural' Than Non-Fat Milk?

Once upon a time, non-fat milk (the cream removed) was only used for fattening pigs. It was clearly a technological process to remove the cream but it is not considered "unnatural"- in 2012, the Obama administration even told schools to start ser ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 24 2018 - 12:45pm

Transgender: How We Opened the Door for Radicals to Co-Opt Gender Critical Feminism.

Gender critical feminism being used as a smoke screen for anti-transgender views is  a direct consequence of the transgender community abandoning the notion of brain sex.  Brain sex was a testable hypothesis that has since been tested out as true.  Yet so ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Sep 26 2018 - 8:46pm

Elizabeth Warren: 0.4% of DNA Doesn’t Make An American Indian.

D oes 0.4% chocolate ice cream and 99.6% vanilla not make vanilla? What Senator Warren does not get is that her ancestors did not pay the price of being American Indian in the last 200 + years at least.    That is why it is bogus for her to claim that ide ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Oct 15 2018 - 4:21pm