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Book Review: DEATH FROM THE SKIES! by Phil Plait
Among science communicators, there’s an ongoing discussion on how best to reach people. There’s the Carl Sagan-route, full of awe and gentle wonder and turtlenecks, and there’s the Mythbusters-route, which relies upon explosions and goofy shenanigans to teach while entertaining. And now there is the Phil Plait-route, defined by educating the audience while scaring the pants off them. Death from…
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Afternoon/Early Evening Inquisition 10.12
We Skepchicks are all hanging out in bed today, making pancakes and watching movies (I just finished The Professional), so none of us were able to find the time to post. Sorry! Turning to the mailbag, we recently received a wonderful letter from reader Kaylia, a newish skeptic and nonbeliever who struggles with the idea of prayer. Specifically, it is…
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Creationist Comeuppance on YouTube
You know what’s hilarious? Seeing a jerk get schooled. You know what’s even funnier? When the jerk happens to be a creationist who has spent a lot of time and effort filling YouTube with the same old oft-debunked creationist garbage we see all the time, and who then illegally attempts to silence his rational critics. I’ve been following the fight…
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Comment o’ the Week! MONKEY EDITION!
I’m a bit late but fashionably so, I assure you. Before I get to the Really Big Shoe, I’d like to once again tell you all to get your bums (and your hobos) to Connecticut tomorrow for the live Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe! It’s going to be lots and lots of fun and there may (will) be much frivolity…
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New Cpt. D Video: TAM6, and Ripped Off by German TV!
There’s a new Captain Disillusion video up, hooray! And to make it even better, the first half is all about The Amaz!ng Meeting 6, AND there are cameos by Penn Jillette and yours truly, AND there’s a nice debunking of a reptile-woman video, AND there’s a new mission for us, the viewing audience: Cpt. D mentions that a German TV…
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Boston Skeptics in the Pub: October 20!
I know, we just finished our fun drinky time with Blake Stacey’s marvelous September talk, but it’s time to look to the future: Sid Rodrigues of London Skeptics in the Pub will be gracing our stage in two short weeks! Also, we have the opportunity to get together the following Monday (the 27th). Are you all tuckered out, or ready…
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Pets, Alt Med, and a Transgendered Cat
Kristin in Toronto recently wrote in with the following question: . . . Anyway, the other day my hairdresser told me that she was going to start taking her 12-year-old dog to a chiropractor. “Really? They have doggy chiropractors?” I said, and she told me yes, they do, as well as doggy acupuncture and doggy naturopathy. She even suggested that…
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SGU Live Podcast This Saturday: Who’s In?
The Perry DeAngelis Memorial SGU Broadcast Live Monkeys Beating Birds Event is fast approaching! Okay, I was hoping to post some solid info on how I’M getting from Boston to Fairfield, CT this Saturday, but that’s kind of still up in the air. What I have discovered is that you can catch an Amtrak train or a Greyhound bus or…
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