revisited

A co-worker seems to have bought into the MIHOP scenarios, and he had a new take on the "OMGzors the buildings fell faster than free-fall" issue. Put simply, he said that the wave of destruction travels downwards faster than free-fall, and that this is the controlled demolition being triggered...

Looks like Gene Ray's been busy updating his site, TimeCube.com. Just thought I'd throw it out there. If you're unfamiliar with Gene's particular brand of lunacy, do yourself a favor and head on over. His quotes have appeared in some of the best signature lines ever. Oh, and be sure to visit...

From the Baltimore SUN -- by John Murphy http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/bal-te.gaza04sep04,0,5382196.story The Palestinian government project, which employed more than 4,000 Gazans, was expected to inject $20 million into the Gaza Strip's battered economy. But a year later, the...

I have read Don Riefler's comments on the "Ghost Hunters" show (dated 2004 on JREF at [link removed]) but feel he has only scratched the surface. Riefler's review does not take the show or its potential impact seriously. Yet tens of thousands of hard-core fans DO take it seriously. Two years...

I was in a Las Vegas shop earlier this week and saw that the owners had purchased and installed a very elaborate counterfeit money detector. One would place a bill on it and a small white light would shine through the area with the watermark while a UV light shined down on the bill to make the...

http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=479 OK. I just read the Wason Card problem in Dennett's "Darwin's Dangerous Idea". (I had to leave early from TAM, so I missed Jeff Corey's talk) And, of course, got it wrong. I even assumed that Dennett's editor/publisher made a...

I know that the original experiment was flawed with an embarassingly low sample size. However, has anybody heard or read of a study since then that actually attempted to repeat the study and put this myth to rest? Do people think such a repeat is even necessary? I think that however flawed the...

I remember a little while ago when this issue was still unresolved an ornithologist called Alan Feduccia was very much of the opinion that birds were not derived from dinosaurs. It was never very clear exactly what he thought they were from. His negative argument and lack of a properly...

I use Spybot. Seems to work pretty well, but wondering what others people have tried and what they thought of them.

There are still tremors in the scientific community over the James Ossuary that I find interesting. I stumbled on this one today after following a few links from Biblical Archeology Review (BAR). It generates for me more questions about science (whose science is to be used?), the appeal to...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4539033.stm Comments?

With reference to "FairyTale Revisited" on SWIFT 26 Nov 2004. It mentioned the ease with which children could have transformed a sighting of a dragonfly (such as a specimen of Orthermis Discolor) into a fairy encounter. How is it transformed into a fairy encounter was not specifically...

Fastest human 'will be a woman' I think is an example of the Zeno paradox. What does everybody else think?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6115395/ Not really an assertion, just a desire to continue this debate. I have recalled that a lot of the arguments against running out of resources are that a) There are plenty of them, such as oil, that we haven't even tapped yet. b) Prices have dropped in US...