Just a reminder, but the 34th Meeting of the Skeptics' Circle is scheduled to take a sojourn Down Under at The Second Sight on Thursday, May 11. The deadline is fast approaching for you to get your best skeptical blogging to EoR, and that deadline is 6 PM EDST on Wednesday, May 10. So far there haven't been as many entries as we'd like to see, but there's still time to rectify that situation.The guidelines regarding what we're looking for can be found here.
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So it has been an embarassingly long time since I last wrote anything for this blog. Long enough that I owe you all an apology. It started out simply enough - I did something I've done a million times, picked up a full water bucket for our cow. Not sure what I did differently, but I did…
Just what the world needs, right?
There are already carnivals for medical-type follk, general science folk, the godless, philosophers. There are already carnivals about birds, cats, dogs, general multicellular animals, invertebrates. But something is missing. Oh, yes. Those poor little…
"There are no physicists in the hottest parts of hell, because the existence of a 'hottest part' implies a temperature difference, and any marginally competent physicist would immediately use this to run a heat engine and make some other part of hell comfortably cool." -Richard Davisson
The Large…
A discussion in the comments section of the recent Skeptics' Circle reminded me of something I learned only after years in the skeptical movement.
A real skeptic always sides with scientific consensus.
This may sound really unsatisfying and self-contradictory at first. Isn't skepticism about…
I might be teaming up with my brother for an entry. Depends on our energy level.