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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...

http://www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/08/06/sept11.theories.ap/index.html

If I were more wooish I might think I have a ghost in my house! For the last few weeks I have been hearing very strange sounds coming from my ceiling, almost always in the late evening. Now I have a 'flat iron roof' (not actually flat and not actually iron). It has no crawl space between the...

I cannot post this in appropiate thread(Challenge Applications)so thought some may like to read it here. http://www.lougentile.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=2274#2274 Randi the bad guy as usual. :rolleyes:

Anyone here read Will Durant? Are his works dated at all? I went to www.willdurant.com and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Durant. Anyone here a devotee?

It seems to be a favourite past time of the media these days, catch your attention with a health scare story. This one claims that one *sugar sweetened* soft drink a day will cause 80% of women to become diabetic...

Once upon a time . . . long, long ago, the earth was smaller than it is now and, over the ages, it has continuously gobbled up space dust, comets, asteroids, small planets, alien spacecraft, etc. This has steadily increased the size and mass of the earth and now we all live heavily ever after...

Were the stories in the New Testament 'lifted' from previous histories, or where they actual historical events? Read this section from the Life of Pythagoras: Now, read the Gospel of John 21:1-11, known as the 'miraculous catch of fish'... Two stories about fishing, maybe a little...

from the Sumerians and pre-Israelite Semitic people, is that enough reason to completely " debunk " the bible?

So is it: 1) religious craze led to making lots of stone statues led to using all the trees led to soil erosion led to extinction by ecocide or 2) disease brought by outside populations, and rats, led to demise or 3) next decades' story which will probably contradict both of these

News story I was sent: It's from United Press International at http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php Now, if true, I would think this story would be in the news. Maybe not major news, but at least locally it would be discussed. All other articles I can find on this reference this one as a...

99 Ways to Tell a Story : Exercises in Style Holy crap! What a fun book! The author/illustrator tells the same one-page comic 99 different ways. The main character closes his laptop and goes to the refrigerator to get something to drink. His wife calls to him from upstairs to ask him what...

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/21/arts/television/21welc.html?hp&ex=1137906000&en=43df4035c8d21fca&ei=5094&partner=homepage Gist is this (see how nice I am about not just flinging a link like a dead kipper on the floor?) REality show. Bunch of couples vie for a free house in a republican...

I just read a nice little article on the history of wheat, at The Economist web site: http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=5323362&no_na_tran=1 People in this forum will enjoy it.

Feingold starts talking tough on the Patriot Act. I wonder when the IRS will start using Sneak And Peek warrants?

from the last part of the story:

http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051030/NEWS0202/110300035

http://www.wweek.com/story.php?story=6822&page=1 Curing Jamie Handley.

How the penguin's life story inspired the US religious right Antarctic family values: Is the emperor penguin an enemy of Darwin? America's surprise film hit was meant to be a nature documentary. Now it's a pawn in the war on evolutionary theory Effin pathetic... :rolleyes:

Someone shared these links and I thought to myself, "I wonder how long it'll be before someone links to it at randi.org?" but then thought, "Why don't I do it?" So here you go. I'm wearing my skeptical face over the idea that the type of critter photographed is responsible for most animal deaths...

first, i must tell you that i am an avowed skeptic who does not believe in ghosts. i do have a story to tell about some strange phenomena i encountered about 18 years ago. my father died while we were on vacation in sicily. we were staying at my family beach house which has two stories, tile...

My wife has pushed homeopathic this, that or the other at me for some years. I didn't buy in, but nor did I see the harm. I partook, but observed no noticeable benefit (for hayfever). Fast forward a few years. I'm a sailor who is prone to seasickness and have experimented with everything under...

Can anyone find a link to that story that was written from the perspective of a mother that was a Flood victim? I remember it was really sad, anyone know what I'm talking about?

Due to the recent Wiki war over the Sollog age at Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sollog), I did some reading up on Sollog. You can form your own opinion just by looking at his web site, http://www.sollog.com/; I suspect that it will be similar to mine! :-) Anyway, there's various...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37679-2004Dec5.html So the real story is catching up with the spin. It's a shame that Tillman's family has to put up with this now.

Sometimes local pressure gets something done that is worthwhile. The new Franklin Shuttle is an example. http://www.thethirdrail.net/0003/bf_dd1.htm

It must be coming up on Hallowe'en... *Sigh* I guess the good news is that I was shown this page by my daughter (13), who thought it was just hilarious.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=494&ncid=762&e=5&u=/ap/20040925/ap_en_tv/cbs_bush

After searching the stories on google news, it seems that the most dogmatic character in this story is the girl's mother. The daughter was given the option of receiving just a sip of low alcohol wine instead of the bread host. (In the RC faith the bread and wine are "changed" into the body and...

For that matter, does anyone know if this is true, or is it just something that a Christian writer fabricated for a compelling piece of drama? From Where was God on September 11th? To quote the relevant portion to my question: I'm curious if anyone else has come across this, and if there is...