... Fortunately, people don't pay as much attention as they used to to astrology, so many people actually are fairly ignorant of their birth sign. In...
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Police aren't sure how else to explain it. But when an officer walked into an apartment Thursday night to answer a 911 call, an orange-and-tan...
Hi Eric et al, ... Having students, you are in a much better position to judge that than I am. And I'd be very happy if you are right and that interest in...
I was wondering if anything else would surface on this case. I just heard that a T.V. show is going to show the footage. Cool. ... prove ... anonymous ... ...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20060120/sc_space/highereducationfuelsstrongerbeliefinghosts Higher Education Fuels Stronger Belief in Ghosts Robert Roy Britt ...
I'm a high school physics teacher who has been using the Discovery channel series "MythBusters" in order to interest my students in critical thinking and...
I am interested in having my high school students develop skeptical reasoning abilities by showing them TV shows about the supposed Loch Ness monster, and a...
... I can't offer any suggestions about availability of that show on vid or DVD -- and must admit I'm not familiar with it -- but from your description it's...
There was a very odd interview this morning on public radio with the 83 year old Kurt Vonnegut during which he described himself as a secular humanist but also...
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Message: 2 Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 17:15:25 -0000 From: "rkscience100" <rkscience100@...> Subject: Skepticism on TV shows? I'm a high school physics...
Just received this link in an email. I've just returned from a somewhat lengthy train trip and don't have the strength to work out the trick yet but I have...
The trick is quite trivial. The simple mathematical manipulations performed always yield a multiple of 9 in the range from 9 to 81. Therefore, the computer...
Can someone give me their thoughts on the Meta Programs that are often talked about in NLP (they are also talked about as thinking styles). I have read the...
Try this one: 2 x 142,857 = 285,714 3 x 142,857 = 428,571 4 x 142,857 = 571,428 5 x 142,857 = 714,285 6 x 142,857 = 857,142 Look at the digits carefully. Must...
... They don't need to target the Brooklyn Bridge. They can buy it cheap. There is just no telling how many times its been sold to people just as smart as Al...
Hi there. New to the list, I'm a confirmed skeptic but also a bit of an enigma in that I'm a Quaker, I dabble in tarot and I loathe Penn and Teller's...
Yeah, right! Like Al-quaeda announced 9-11 before it happened. Whenever they announce it beforehand you can pretty much be sure it's a bluff. If it's real...
I don't know if folks here have seen this show ('Bullshit!') which plays on Showtime, but it's supposedly a show by skeptics for skeptics. I take issue with...
I would like to know if anyone has any good skeptic or none related websites. Ash ... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired...
I love Mythbusters! I like any kind of show on Urban Legends. A really good website is www.snopes.com ... __________________________________________________ ...
... Having memorized numbers like sine (1), sqrt2 and 1/7 (=0.142857 repeated over & over) really helped when my calculator batteries went dead during my...
I'd like to get an idea of what "moves" other skeptics. What are your motivations and basic belief structures regarding "your" skepticism? Here are mine: My...
"Penn & Teller's "Bullshit!" show is entertainment, not serious science." I dunno, when someone on TV calls something "Bullshit!" I usually demand that they...
"Penn & Teller's "Bullshit!" show is entertainment, not serious science. The language is a legal ploy to avoid getting sued. The subjects are indeed worthy of...
From Wikipedia: "Though the show is generally well received, some viewers of the show complain that Penn and Teller's political and personal beliefs get in the...
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