As a follow-up to the successful 10:23 Campaign: “Homeopathy: There’s Nothing In It!”, I wanted to share with you all an excellent video challenge from skeptic James Randi, who is laying down the gauntlet to homeopathy manufacturers and pharmacies that sell this scam “medicine”… In addition, please consider taking a few minutes to go [...]
The Pseudo Scientists — Episode 28 HOUSTON, WE HAVE A PROBLEM: Bill O’Reilly goes in, humour goes out, never a miscommunication. INTRO: Jason, Jack and Elliot — Weather, O-Week, Jason on SYN FM, and Jack blogging for Nature Education. ON THE STREET: The Victorian 10:23 campaign video. INTERVIEW: Colin Wright, science communicator and Australian [...]
I was most gratified when somebody finally asked the question that we all really wanted to know: What would happen to your hand if you stuck it into the proton beam at the Large Hadron Collider? Last September, our friends at Sixty Symbols (a collaboration between The University of Nottingham School of Physics and Astronomy [...]
click to enlarge Over the three-day weekend of January 15–17, the Skeptics Society sponsored a geology tour organized and hosted by the Occidental College and Caltech paleontologist and geologist Donald Prothero and his Whittier College professor wife Teresa LeVelle. Around 50 skeptics departed Pasadena on a bus bound for our first stop, the Mt. Palomar [...]See the footage from around Australia (oh, and in Antarctica): More over the jump!
Ghastly Beyond Belief, Neil Gaiman and Kim Newman’s wonderfully weird book of science fiction quotations, relates an amusing anecdote involving skeptic Isaac Asimov. Asimov once penned a novelization of the sci-fi flick Fantastic Voyage (the story of a submarine miniaturized for a mission inside a human body). He recalled his daughter’s reaction to the film’s ending, [...]
Be skeptical of what you read on the Internet. I’ll give you a moment to stop reeling from that shocking warning and collect yourself. The news is that China is building “ghost cities”, vast megalopoli (cool word) that have nobody living in them. Some of these cities are even built in the middle of nowhere: [...]It is often asked why people fall for homeopathy. Well, one reason is because many people don’t completely understand what homeopathy is, they think it is something that it’s not. There is another reason, lined out quite well in the little video below which was made by Kylie Sturgess of Podblack.com and Token Skeptic. Take [...]
February 2011
“Peak Oil and the Economy: Should We Be Concerned?” Presentation by David Murphy, Ph.D.
Wednesday, February 16, at 7:15 pm at the DeWitt Community Library at Shoppingtown Mall.
Our economy runs on fossil fuels, and oil most importantly. Many believe that we have reached a peak in global oil production (i.e. peak oil) and will [...]