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Now here's something you don't see everyday: http://ephemeris.alcuinus.net/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2057074,00.html Spot the logical errors and strawmen... For example:

The truth is out there... March 21, 2007 ...and proud sceptic Martin Hadley says it has nothing to do with the paranormal. He talks to Charles Purcell from a scientific viewpoint. More ... http://radar.smh.com.au/archives/2007/03/talk_to_me_1.html

Saw this post in a thread at Stormfront where the 9/11 events were being discussed; (note that this links to a thread at the Stormfront forum, hate-speech listed site, can cause problems if entered through a public computer.) http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showpost.php?p=3930273&postcount=110...

Sydney Skeptics in the Pub. After all the time and trouble we went to so the Daily Telegraph would have a photo, no photo! Still, we are on page 99. For those who don't want to buy the paper, or who are not in Australia, here it is...

I was reading my local newspaper today and came across an article about stars in the August night sky (northern hemisphere). There was nothing spectacular about the article, it just explained to the reader about which stars are noticable at this time of year and how to use those stars to locate...

I've been amusing myself lately, by going through the horoscopes in Metro (a fere daily newspaper here in London) and counting how many of the 12 "readings" seem appropriate each day. So far, I have been getting between 6 and 11 "hits" each day (if half or more of a specific sign is...

The Egyptian newspaper Al Multaga Dawli has retaliated against Jyllands Postens insults against the prophet, by publishing photo shopped pictures of the Danish queen in a skimpy dancers outfit, under the headline "Striptease". The author of the article states that they have freedom of speech...

I guess I've been vocal enough and geeked enough about TAM that my students who are also in Newspaper want to do an article. They've interviewed me about TAM, and are now hoping to do a Mythbusting sidebar. Here's the note they sent me. I'm looing forward to addressing these as best I can, but I...

I saw this video on Internet Infidels, so I wanted to see what you guys have to say about it. http://j.b5z.net/i/u/2098198/f/JOHN_CHANG.mov As someone on the II thread pointed out, this guy had a cigarette just before performing the trick...

I am currently putting together a piece for BBC4 about bad science reporting, something which seems particularly to effect the UK Daily Mail. I wonder if anyone has a favourite piece of poor science reporting from the daily newspapers, especially in the UK.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040929/ap_on_el_pr/crawford_paper_kerry&cid=694&ncid=1963&sid=96378798 http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/27/politics/campaign/27cheney.html?ex=1096948800&en=8e13c99b58496c85&ei=5006&partner=ALTAVISTA1

An Interesting Account of a meeting between media moguls. Richard Desmond is the owner of the Express newspaper group, quite a wide-selling bunch of papers in the UK. Which makes this all the more scary: Wow. And my mother reads the Sunday Express :(

I dont have a link but I saw this story about US forces locking down a disruptive newspaper that the US accused of printing lies and general rabble rousing. The result of course was anger and protest by Iraqis. So what do you think. On one hand you have troop saftey on the other hand teh...

I'm good at coming up with the strangest things. Here's one more: Two says ago, my newspaper got soaking wet. Literally. I had to put it over something ontop my heater to dry it out. When it dried out completely the next morning, I lifted the paper off the stand-rig that I made. The paper felt...