Light the Night Streamathon September 24 1:00 PM - 1:00 AM MDT

DUSTING OFF THE DEGREE - Religion and Misogyny

THIS DAY IN HISTORY - September 15 * 1831 – The locomotive John Bull operates for the first time in New Jersey on the Camden and Amboy Railroad * 1835 – HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches the Galápagos Islands. The ship lands at Chatham or San Cristobal, the easternmost of the archipelago. * 1935 - The Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship * 1981 - The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice of the Supreme Court of the United States * 1981 – The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operates it under its own power outside Washington, D.C.

POLITICS AND RELIGION

* gazette.com/news/local/2016-09-08/man-would-rather-get-fired-watch-diversity-video.html">SSA employee would rather lose his job than watch diversity video | gazette.com/news/local/2016-09-08/man-would-rather-get-fired-watch-diversity-video.html">Via Raw Story * 728409-medical-board.html">Dr. Bob Sears is facing discipline from the medical board for recommending to not get vaccinated * Parents wants charges against church for baptizing her autistic son | Via WWJTD * Woman uses Indiana’s RFRA as defense for child abuse * clinton-emphasizes-importance-of-faith-to-black-audience.html?_r=0">Clinton says we need a president who’s a praying person * Trump supporter doesn’t want most women to vote

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY * Human respiratory tissue test shows similar effect of vapor to ambient air * 10 percent of Earth’s wilderness lost since 1990s * Four new giraffe species revealed * Sixth sense claimed to be found (not Bruce Willis)

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