Melissa Krawczyk
Skeptic, Humanist, Atheist. Science & Human Rights. Studying Arabic. Secular Rescue @center4inquiry
@RichardDawkins Translations Project Director @rdfrs
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It's Easy to Be a Jerk on Twitter. And Twitter Wants to Fix That
Kayvon Beykpour, Twitter's head of product, admits the platform can still incentivize toxic behavior. In a WIRED Q&A, he explains how he wants to fix it.
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Arabische Übersetzung von „Der Gotteswahn“ - Richard Dawkins Foundation
Das Translations Project
This Ugandan School Dares To Offer Humanist, Evidence-Based Curriculum - Here’s How You Can Help
With support from Atheist Alliance International, this school is seeing a lot of success and growth.
Little Gunner Boy (Extended)
I made this song because I'm sickened by the lack of political action. If you agree, please share. I have 804 subscribers. If I get 196 more, I will monetize...
Spread Light Holiday List 2019
Download PDF | Print this pageThis time of year, numerous traditions celebrate the return of light—a powerful symbol of hope, guidance, courage shining against the odds. Our AoCC team offers these suggestions to spread more light in the world. You...
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Melissa Krawczyk
#SecularRescue, a project of @center4inquiry, has a newly-launched website and *online application* for #secular #atheist activists, bloggers, writers, publishers, etc. who face threats due to their promotion of secular ideas
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It's over: Australia ends human rights partnership with China
After more than two decades, the Human Rights Technical Co-operation program has been suspended. Here's why.
Transplant doctor rejects damaged donated lungs from chain-smoker — Fox News
The donor had been a chain-smoker for 30 years.
The Return of Race Science
Angela Saini discusses her book, "Superior: The Return of Race Science."
“They Were Shouting ‘Kill Them’” | Sudan’s Violent Crackdown on Protesters in Khartoum
This report documents Sudanese security forces’ attack on the protesters’ sit-in camp in Khartoum on June 3, 2019 and in following days in other neighborhoods of the capital, Khartoum, and neighboring Bahri and Omdurman. Human Rights Watch also...
After years trapped under the headscarf, Turkish women dare to show their hair again
The first time Ayse left home as an adult without her headscarf, her hair hanging loose in a chestnut bob, she feared someone would assault her. It was what she had been told happened to uncovered...
Egyptian woman fights unequal Islamic inheritance laws
The Christian human rights lawyer is challenging the laws, under which female heirs inherit half that of men.
Third of Catholic school pupils lack Protestant friends
More than a third of Catholic schoolboys in Scotland have sectarian views, according to a study thought to be one of the first to look at the views of students at some of Scotland’s 357 Catholic...
The Canadian boss who rescued 300 Syrian refugees
Entrepreneur Jim Estill spent CA$1.5m of his own money to bring Syrian refugees to Canada.
Dinos and Demons and Swedes, Oh My! It May Be Cartoonish, but Evangelical Radicalism Isn't Just a Sideshow - Rewire.News - Religion Dispatches
Evangelical authoritarianism is a problem that the American mainstream as a rule fails to treat with the seriousness it demands, in part because it’s easy to laugh at the antics of a Robert Jeffress while assuming that more respectable conservative...
Sesame and the IRC join forces to help Syrian refugee children
The International Rescue Committee and Sesame Workshop are teaming up on a major new effort to help young Syrian refugee children, including a new Sesame show in Arabic
Melissa Krawczyk
This is actually the longer piece I meant to share: cbsnews.com/news/sesame-st…
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How the Muppets are teaching children to cope with emotions
Sesame Workshop and International Rescue Committee are collaborating to teach children how to handle tough emotions. The new Sesame edition is being made with refugee kids in mind
Superior: The Return of Race Science
Quote shared via Kindle: "Race is at its heart the belief that we are born different, deep inside our bodies, perhaps even in character and intellect, as well as in outward appearance. It’s the notion that groups of people have certain innate...
Melissa Krawczyk
Incidentally, this is the definition of "race" given by the author: "Race is at its heart the belief that we are…" - "Superior: The…"
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