Everything is fitted to fall in Feng Shui
Are you in a dating rut? Have you stopped looking for “Mr. Right” and started looking for “Mr. Right Now?” Are you easily fooled by charlatans? If you answered “yes” to those questions, you need to click this link right now, and find out how to rearrange your furniture and finally attract that dream man! So long as that dream man is also easily fooled by charlat... »
Halloween: A Report from the Front Line
Please be warned, this missive contains little to no science or skepticism, and is intended only as a follow-up to my recent posts about the sexy Halloween craze. After work last night, I joined a few friends for drinks. I was dressed as a roller derby girl, complete with quad skates, helmet, pads, and black eye. I was joined by the Green Lantern (I believe he was the Hal Jordan version) and Super... »
Happy Halloween!
You guys are fabulous. Yesterday, I basically checked out and left it up to all of you to discuss Richard Dawkins, and boy did you. The conversation is still going over there if you haven’t checked it out yet – some terrific posts there. So it’s Halloween! I came to work dressed as a roller derby girl, since I happen to have all the right equipment. Quad skates, knee pads, helmet... »
God has punished me.
Sorry for the delay! I had a nice long(er) post written out when my computer crashed an all hell broke loose here at work. Now I can’t even find the original piece I wanted to discuss, which was another blogger’s take on Richard Dawkins vs. the entire god-worshipping world. (I’m sure the reason is because a god secretly didn’t want me talking about it all and has punished m... »
Debunking Halloween
On the upcoming Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe (due in the next few days, subscribe to iTunes to have it automatically downloaded), we discuss a recent article “debunking” vampires, ghosts, and zombies. The researcher in question is Costas Efthimiou, a physicist at the University of Central Florida, who comes across as a skeptical yet good natured fellow so obviously I kind of l... »
Even Perfect Skepchicks are Imperfect
Eventually, we all get duped. Everybody. It’s just impossible to make it through life without occasionally accepting something as fact that seems correct, only to find out later that it’s not. For instance, the idea that an ancient pyramid was found in Bosnia fooled a lot of otherwise sensible people. It seemed very believable on the surface. Or how about Piltdown Man? That was a cleve... »
