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I’m new here and will probably repeat previous discussions, for this I make no apology but beg your indulgence. I have noticed that in my short time of being here that there is a strong anti-big invisible man who lives in the sky attitude, which to me does not suggest scepticism but closed...

Is there software that can read outloud a .pdf file ? So I can listen to an e-book without reading it. Thank you nimzo

Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth by Andrew Smith http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/10/09/201622.php He sets out to find and interview the men who walked on the Moon There were 10, one has died. I think that's a fascinating idea for a book, and I'd love to find out how that...

I gave it a few days to see if the only local skeptics group I could find to respond to my emails and sadly they have not. So while I can't confirm if their group is still active I want to go ahead and put out a call to the locals to see if we can't put together a group. We could meet, hold...

I wanted to do this as a poll but here we go, these are the ones i genrally read,w eget them free at the office anyway. Economist Financial Times Foreign Polucy Guardian Heral tribune Independent Observer Times Telegraph

By A.K. Dewdney(Sp?)? It's about bad math. How the media and politicans use statistics to lie to all of us? It gives all kinds of examples of "bad math" from probability pumping to the so called "law of averages"(I've rolled the dice so many times I'm bound to get a lucky roll). It also...

...because I didn't want to be the father or the son in this story. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/5045832.stm

I started watching the most recent Harry Potter movie last night (watching half a movie per night is about all I can manage still, with two kids under the age of 2). And some questions re-occurred to me, so I thought I'd ask here, since I know there are quite a few Patter fans on the forum: 1)...

The editorial board at " Skeptic " magazine reccomended this in an email just yesterday! http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/product-description/0060738170/ref=dp_proddesc_0/103-0534154-3679809?%5Fencoding=UTF8&n=283155 BTW - The scholar himself was on " The Daily Show " last week.

In another thread, Vagabond writes: So my question to you all is, how many have YOU read? Try to come up with an estimate. I've always loved the scene in Cosmos where Carl Sagan is standing in the Library of Congress talking about knowledge, and says something like, "If you read a book a...

I have never reccomended a book before I have finished it. Well, that has changed. I"m reading the book "Spook" by Mary Roach. It's hilarious, but so very interesting...I'm only putting it down to tell everyone to go buy it or check it out at the library. I loved her first book "STIFF" about...

Hi all, I know (or used to know) two people quite well who joined cults some years ago. They are different cults and the two didn't know each other, but were quite similar in a lot of ways, and the cults they joined are similar in a lot of ways. They've both been in the cults for some years...

or what others say?, claim? or what ever you might think that person is doing. wether you do or not. for what ever the subject.be it for skeptical mind or religious, etc what brings the tru nature of the subject in 'concern' especially when deling with ideology, religion, philosophy, science...

I was reading one of my favorite blogs, Dispatches from the Culture Wars, and it linked to this article, from which I quote the last paragraph. It was bad, bad, bad. The only reason I even read it was because the blogger made this comment about it. It was really that bad. Wow. Bad in an...

Wow. Just WOW. http://www.panexa.com/

http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?PubID=627 Found this based on an Opinion piece in the paper. It was written by two authors, Andrew Terrill and Conrad Crane and has as it's official title "Precedents, Variables and Options in Planning a U.S. Military...

It was written by Mary Roach... If anyone saw it, does it prove conclusively that there is or is not an afterlife, or is it just a very good guess. Hmmm

or is aware of the author? The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen I wonder what is all about and who is the author. The reviewers of Amazon related him to Lovecraft for whom I have a very vague idea. :o:

Just finished the book. Possibly the best one in the series so far, with many of the characters (especiallly Voldemort) becoming fully fleshed. Yeah, I know who dies, but I won't reveal it in this first post. The most important thing to me is the one bit that seems to be glossed over. It...

The Sun newspaper has been carrying out a survey of beliefs. It has found that the majority of people still believe in a God in the UK. Fair enough. What is slightly more offensive is the tone in today's paper which firstly implies that it is basically one in the eye for "Intellectuals and...

Interesting study described in the local paper's weekly science column by Jay Ingram Interesting interpretation offered: So, in other words, he seems to be saying that the psychics may be able to use these data to say they are no better at cold reading than anyone else. Interesting. I'll...

Musicmatch Jukebox can, but it's > 25 MB. Something handier ?

I've caught several posts here about Jesus kicking the doors down in Hell and setting up shop himself. A quick google didn't help much but I saw a few mentions of Jesus popping in and out of hell, visiting the dead and inviting them to heaven (Psalms, Peter? No chapter and verse) Granted, I...

This is a must read article, it is an excellent piece of journalism, and covers the UNMOVIC, lead up to the war, the post war search for WMD, and torture as a standard part of interrogation by the US armed forces. I recommend that everyone reads this article, in full. It is long, and detailed...

I need help. My boyfriend's mom has cancer. That is the short version, believe you me :) In any event, she called him up the other night to tell him she doesn't want to get back on the chemo (who can blame her?!), and to ask what he thought of "natural remedies." She said she wasn't "talking...

This Australian morning show is asking for people to send in photos their palms. See for yourself: http://www.mysteryinvestigators.com/files/palm_reading.wmv

This is prompted by a little derailment Kimpatsu and I have engaged in here; http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=1870798655#post1870798655 I'm wondering how non-native speakers of non-Roman alphabetical languages do what they do. On the one hand, I can sort of...

I'm putting this here in the science forum because it seems that the doctors and medical professionals come here most. I'm sure you all have heard something like this before, maybe, but bear with me. This is why I became a skeptic, and why I hate sCAMs so damned much. I just need to get this...

Why Women Can't Read Maps Nothing really new, but interesting.. I had to chuckle at this last part.. Note that it doesn't say that women can speak 20,000 to 25,000 different words a day ... :D

I've become aware of his "Thursday Next" series and it seems interesting on first glance. Anyone have an opinion of him?