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What You’re Doing Is Important
Sometimes being a skeptic can be difficult. As skeptics we spend a lot of our time telling people that they are incorrect, that their beliefs are false. We do this not because we think we are better than anyone else but because we want to help people understand science and understand how things actually work so that they in turn…
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AI: NASA and Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
Three new NASA Centennial challenges were announced today. NASA is seeking citizen scientists and independent groups to create a small satellite that can be launched into earth orbit twice in one week, a solar powered night rover that can operate in darkness and a robot that can locate and retrieve geologic samples without human control. The prizes being offered total…
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Dilution (I love xkcd)
A whole bunch of wonderful readers sent this in to us today. (Thank you.) And just in case you are one of the few who didn’t happen to catch this brilliant comic by xkcd here it is! Click here to go to the xkcd website. The mouse-over text for this drawing is well worth the click!
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AI: Make a Toast!
I find myself in festive times. On more than one occasion as of late, I have found myself with glassed raised high in joyful celebration of life and friendship. But the right words often escape me at just that particular moment and the thought occurred to me that we need some good skeptical toasts! With that in mind I offer…
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The Skeptic Next Door: Carrie Poppy
This week I bring you a fascinating discussion with an animal rights activist from my little Los Angeles neighborhood. Carrie Poppy is lovely, insightful, entertaining AND she even shares a kick-ass recipe! This interview has it all. Enjoy! I first met you at an atheist convention in Los Angeles. Were you raised an atheist or did you become an atheist…
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AI: Song Dedications
When I was in junior high-school we had a little mini-mag that was published by the students and printed on the copy machine. It was awesome. It taught me the power of do-it-yourself or DIY. One of my favorite sections of the mag was the song dedication section. You could for example dedicate, “Don’t you want Me?” by the Human…
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Ask Surly Amy: Lookin’ For Love
Dear Surly Amy, I find myself in my early 40s and still single. I have had relationships, but they didn’t work out. Recently the women I’ve been seeing just want to be friends. It seems like they either don’t want to date any more or they want to date someone else. It’s also a bit disappoointing to know that there…
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AI: Will You Be There?
I’m sorry Karen can’t come to the AI today. She is is currently hot on the tail of an international psychic who preys upon the innocent and gullible. Or she found some hot tail. I can’t remember which. So you are stuck with me on this lovely summer afternoon and it’s perfect because I have a question I’d really like…
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