Anti-Science
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Predators
Imagine that a grieving mother stands before a world-famous psychic on national television. The mother has lost her son and wants even the smallest hint as to where he could be. The psychic informs her that her son was killed by a very tall Hispanic man with dreadlocks, the boy’s body thrown into the woods near two large identifiable boulders.…
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So you want to be a con artist!
Congratulations on choosing a career path with a long and colorful history! Many people believe that prostitution is the world’s oldest profession — we here at Scam University think that in all likelihood, the prostitute in question handed her john change consisting of counterfeit clamshells, thus beginning the world’s second oldest profession. There are a lot of ways to make…
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Star Sign + Dollar Sign = Waste of good electrons?
Well, as the resident technology nerd, I thought I would take our current theme of the heavens, and connect it to one of my favorites–computers! Seems that in the claim stakes of internet domains, astrology.com is a key property. Sadly, horoscopes seem to be the other thing you can sell online and actually make money on. In the words of…
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A Correspondence
Through my profile on MySpace. ———————————————- From: Evan Date: Jan 2 2007 10:32 PM Subject: hmmmmm even know i think god is real and go to a phycic once a year can i still take you out on a date? ———————————————- Dear Evan, In my living room, I have a bookcase. Sitting on the bookcase atop a stack of DVDs…
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Bad Geology Flicks
I am a sucker for bad geology movies. Sure, I suffer somewhat through the bad science and bad dialog, but I still find myself hooked on these films. I guess there’s some appeal to seeing attractive, action star, Hollywood versions of geologists. I mean, Pierce Brosnan played the star volcanologist in the 1997 flick “Dante’s Peak”. There are plenty of…
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Oh dear god, it has begun.
By “it” I refer, of course, to the annual office germ exchange that leaves coworkers cowering in their cubes, vigorously clawing at their own hands with sanitizing alcohol scrubs and popping Vitamin C tablets like antidepressants at Christmas dinner. Half the office was sick yesterday. The other half today. I woke up with Brillo pads lodged in the back of…
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We regret to inform you that we are not funny.
Christopher Hitchens (who many skeptics may know from his excellent book Missionary Position) begins his most recent article in Vanity Fair by pointing to the fact that countless women name “sense of humor” as a desirable trait in the opposite sex, while one rarely if ever hears a man describe a new love interest with “man, does she ever make…
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Richard Leakey: Kicking ass, taking names.
A recent article by Kendrick Frazier published in Skeptical Inquirer mentions a fight brewing in Kenya over the display of some of the most important archaeological finds of the past century showing human evolution through the fossils of our hominid ancestors. The National Museums of Kenya is about to reopen after 18 months of renovations, and the local religious whackjobs…
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