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I moderate at another board that uses the exact same software as this one. For some reason I have lost the buttons for editing, quoting, and starting a new thread. Also, avatars and smilies are not displayed. No one at that board can figure out why. It must be something in PC settings as it...

Sometimes when I am having trouble falling asleep I hear voices, now they are not talking to me and don't really make sense, they are just randomly assorted words part of my brain throws out. I figure this is a slightly odd abnormal sleep state issue. I was just wondering if this happens to...

Rather than to allow certain parties to continue derailing another thread, I have started a new one dealing with the social issue of public kissing and hand holding etiquette worldwide. A cursory review of the subject indicates that worldwide these practices vary widely, from not allowing it at...

Hi I havent been around for a bit but like that bad penny :-) But I gots a serious question and Im hoping for some ideas. I come back cause I need some help on this, and this is a great place to get some creative thought. My friend who (I brought this up last time I was here) Im happy to say...

Since Lou is obviously unable to respond(and I'm glad to see Mr. Randi acknowledges that and don't fault him on that count). Let me make a few observations. First in spite of the rules the wide feeling in the paranormal community is the following: 1) Randi doesn't really have the money 2)...

Articles this month: The Amazing Meeting 4 - A Personal Report By Christian Schwietzke (a.k.a. Chaos) Critique of "An evening with a Miracle Man" By Niels Christian Hvidt Response to Niels Christian Hvidt By Claus Larsen But The News Said Psychics Are Real! By Luke T. A History of Psi in...

Articles this month: Hunting for Mokele Mbembe By Per Borgaard The Roots of Nazism By Rud Kjems Facing Challenges to Evolution Education By Molleen Matsumura A History of Psi in the Ganzfeld - Part 2 By Andrew Endersby Spiritualism Exposed: Margaret Fox Kane Confesses Fraud By Margaret Fox...

One last Katrina thread. What is the real extent of the problem? From what I have read, tens of thousands dead, thousands dying right now. The issue of New Orleans has divertred attention away from the problem that there are an unknown number of people scattered around the whole area who are...

Articles this month: Desert Glass - Ancient Atomic Residue or Evidence of a Meteorite Impact? By Evelyn Mervine The Origins of Germania - Dream and Nightmare By Rud Kjems The Racial Teachings of Rudolf Steiner By Sven Ove Hansson A History of Psi in the Ganzfeld - Part 1 By Andrew Endersby...

Read this from a bloke just recently. Any comment on this?

I'm serious. They are holding townhall like meetings as to whether or not to institute open hunting on ferral cats. People have had it with stray cats and the fact that humane shelters can't take in all these stray cats anyway, they are debating whether to allow people to shoot them dead in...

The first edition of 'the Skeptic' for 2005 is in the hands of subscribers now. The editorial in this issue, "Who to Blame?" has generated an unprecedented amount of mail to the editor, and you can see it by going to: www.skeptics.com.au all done to Ratbag webmaster

Ever have the hots for a coworker? Ever acted upon it? Do you think it is acceptable or dangerous?

I had a separate issue with this column, and one that is neither completely the fault of Randi nor Mary, the reader reporting this incident, but illustrates a couple of important misperceptions about psychiatric care and trying to make armchair diagnoses without having the full picture. It was...

I'm just looking for opinions here. Does anyone else feel this is an issue? Will anyone who gets the flu before Nov. 2nd think it is? I have to wonder if this administration is so ill equipped to protect its citizens from a regularly scheduled event like flu season, how could it respond to a...

I was just listening to NPR. There was a piece about voters stand on issues. There were many cross over Dem's and plenty religious Conservatives who claim that they will vote for Bush because of his stand on abortion. There are other similar issues that others site. Don't these people have ANY...

ok, this is driving me nuts, and i'm hoping someone out there knows more about MS servers than i do. (why we actually run a server with microsoft is a whole other issue.:rolleyes: ) anyway-- anytime i try to FTP new pages onto the server, it doesn't work. In fact, some of the folders won't let...

What can produce a popping sound combined with a sensation of heat in your eye? Because I have no clue. I saw no bright flashes though. Is this like a retinal-detatchment though? -INRM

I’m looking for some help/opinions on a potential safety problem where I work. At issue is a vacuum chamber. It is 20 ft. (6.096 meters) in diameter and 27 ft. (8.2296 meters) high. It has a domed top, which contains a flanged port capable of accepting a transparent window. The diameter of...

Being that-- -There are issues going on lately that are far more important than who has guns and what they're doing with them, and -The issue needlessly divides civil libertarians that would otherwise form a more powerful political force, is it time for Democrats to let go of this issue? I...

Is that it's not there. What's the deal?

I have lots of problems with Bush, but the one thing that really cheeses me off is his ban on stem cell research. Its soley to pander to the far right anti-abortion crowd. To think that a president would put the breaks on potential life altering research. Its a shame.

Why oh why won't the politicians look into this problem? Last Fall they were everywhere, biting my wife, snapping underfoot, hanging out with cigarettes and cocktails on my windowsills. Then it got cold and they all died off. "Well, that's it until next Autumn," I told myself. But today it's...

Certainly, our more progressive posters will rail against this, or maybe not:D As always, from our brothers at Islamweb.net. Request No. : 15277 Title : How to Get Rid of Homosexuality Date & Time : 2004-02-12 00:44:22 Topic : Social Problems Name : withheld Question How can I...

Here it is: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&colID=1&articleID=00055DC8-3BAA-1FA8-BBAA83414B7F0000 Basically it asks whether race exists and the answer is "yes" but differences within a group outweigh those between groups, and its not "race" as we know it. For example, they don't...

On page 61 of the latest issue of Skeptical Inquirer, Kimball Atwood responds to a reader's letter defending alternative medicine by (among other things) asking the writer "to name a single example, since the era of scientific medicine began in the second half of the twentieth century, of a...

Roy's Rock offered to Congress So basically, putting in the courthouse wasn't unconstitutional enough.