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• Retrospectacle: Skeptical Inquirers Vs Jenny McCarthy in Australia’s ‘Women’s Day’

  
  PodBlack Cat — Authority: 428
  What is Retrospectacle? This series of posts are a kind of Thomas Dolby-inspired ‘retrospectacle’ of earlier popular entries from my site, which will fill in during the time that I am busy working for the rest of this month. This is for Sara Jane. Now that I have your attention – let’s have a ...
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• REVIEW: Bill Maher @ the Hult (Eugene, OR – 11/13/09)

  
  mainly music meanderings — Authority: 424
  I don’t have HBO, but my love for Bill Maher has grown exponentially in the past 2+ years with the advent of podcasts .  His HBO show, New Rules , gets released for free in audio version about a few days after it airs ( iTunes link ).  He’s right alongside Keith Olbermann & Rachel Maddow ( both ...
  2 days ago

• Earth Is a Supermarket For Aliens?

  
  The Friggin Loon — Authority: 152
  Hmm, looks like the aliens are having a BBQ, they just beamed up a quarter pounder. Derek Bridges, who is 69, filmed what he believes is a UFO abducting a buffalo from a paddock in Basingstoke, Hampshire. I don’t know loons, what do ya think, too much sherry?
  2 days ago

• Go with Throttle Up? Skeptic Magazine on the Large Hadron Collider

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 142
  In reading my most recent dead tree edition of Skeptic magazine, I noticed that there were two articles on the Large Hadron Collider and the potential catastrophic effects that could come from bringing it up to full power (black holes eating the Earth etc.). I’ve raised my own nervy questions about this here , ...
  4 days ago

• Application For Seekers 2012 (Please Hire Mil Millington And His Girlfriend For This Show)

  
  PodBlack Cat — Authority: 428
  Seekers 2012 – Documentary series for the History Channel, surrounding the Mayan prediction that 2012 will be the END OF DAYS as well as other unexplained phenomena. What We Are Looking For: Male & Female Investigators who are scientists, explorers, or adventurers ...
  4 days ago

• McGuantanamo

  
  The Friggin Loon — Authority: 152
  Looking for a job? Hmm, well here’s one that just might interest you. McDonalds are looking for an assistant manager to help run their only franchise in Cuba. All you need is a valid US passport and a willingness to relocate.Your job will include serving up burgers and fries to Guantanamo Bay detainees. No biggie, ...
  4 days ago

• Thanks

  
  Climate Skeptic — Authority: 483
  We had a really good crowd out last night for my lecture.  I am currently working on publishing the video and the slides.  I am going to destroy the email list for this lecture, but before I do so I am going to send everyone a link to the slides and video when I get them posted.  If you would like to be notified ...
  5 days ago

• WTF Is That?

  
  The Friggin Loon — Authority: 152
  Boo! Look what’s been hiding in a forest in China, a big friggin boa . Everybody panic! Keep that thing away from me, thank you very much. Oh and just in case you were worried there was only one, his friggin mate was found too (but got away). Urgh, the two 55ft, 300kg snakes were found during forest clearing in ...
  5 days ago

• 09-11-11

  
  Skeptic.com — Authority: 120
  In this week’s eSkeptic : H1N1 lecture on DVD: The Evolution of a Deadly Virus feature article: Will Physicists Destroy the World? feature rebuttal: Physicists Will Not Destroy the World! Skepticality: Absinthe: The Green Fairy Revealed latest from Michael Shermer: Staring at Men Who ...
  5 days ago

• New York City’s Nanny State Calorie Notification Legislation is Ineffective

  
  Health And Fitness Advice — Authority: 115
  When presented with nutritional information regarding calories contained in food in New York City’s fast food restaurants – as required by law – 85% of consumers ignored it.  According to a study released by researchers from New York University and Yale medical professors only 56% of consumers saw the ...
  5 days ago

• Staring at Men Who Stare at Goats

  
  The Work of Michael Shermer — Authority: 107
  The Men Who Stare at Goats had so much potential as a film given the bizarre and comical nature of the weird things the United States government believed about the paranormal in its two-decade long secret psychic spy program, so wonderfully captured by the British investigative journalist John Ronson in his book of ...
  6 days ago

• The sinister side of public policy.

  
  The Skeptic: Blog — Authority: 117
  On 1st November, following the sacking of Prof David Nutt , Ryan O’Meara , Editor-in-Chief of K9 Magazine , published the podcast below exploring evidence based policy. K9 Magazine podcast ...
  6 days ago

• Posting Drought Over Soon

  
  Climate Skeptic — Authority: 483
  There is a lot going on that I should be posting about, but I am preparing for a new round of public presentations, of which I give the first tomorrow night in Phoenix.  Once that is done, and I can get the video posted, I will be back to normal operations. By the way, if you like the video, I am available for talks ...
  6 days ago

• Open Thread: Which Eco-Issue Keeps You Up at Night?

  
  Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy — Authority: 534
  Our former colleague and friend Scott Anderson over at The Green Skeptic posed (and answered) a great question last week — which issue keeps you up at night ? Is it climate change? Species loss? Ocean pollution? Enviromental refugees? That young people don’t get out into nature anymore? Or something else? ...
  1 week ago

• Are We Alone for 11/09/09 - Skeptic Check: Doomsday at the Movies

  
  ASTRO LINK — Authority: 123
  Are We Alone - Skeptic Check: Doomsday at the Movies ENCORE PRESENTATION: Hollywood has a few ideas of how the world will end: killer asteroids … lethal pandemics … deadly ice-ages. These themes have all played out on the big screen. But, hey, they’re only movies, right? We’ll separate the science from the ...
  1 week ago

• Are We Alone for 11/09/09 - Skeptic Check: Doomsday at the Movies

  
  Cloudymidnights — Authority: 124
  Are We Alone - Skeptic Check: Doomsday at the Movies ENCORE PRESENTATION: Hollywood has a few ideas of how the world will end: killer asteroids … lethal pandemics … deadly ice-ages. These themes have all played out on the big screen. But, hey, they’re only movies, right? We’ll separate the science from the ...
  1 week ago

• On the Radio Tonight

  
  Climate Skeptic — Authority: 483
  For those in Arizona, I will be on the Terry Gilberg show on 550 KFYI talking climate starting at 6:30 or 7:00 to about 8:00.
  1 week ago

• Storm by Tim Minchin (with text)

  
  Health and Wellness — Authority: 148
  Tim Minchin’s brilliant & witty demolition of irrationality in all its many guises - with rolling text from me -all in the medium of a 9-minute beat poem. Audio from the QEH Dec 2008 show with kind permission from Tim Minchin. … Tim Minchin Storm skeptic sceptic beat poem homeopathy psychics aura ...
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• The League of Scientists

  
  Digital Bits Skeptic — Authority: 107
  By Andy KaiserArticle ID: 1344Hi everyone, Andy Kaiser here.The majority of people who visit Digital Bits Skeptic are - you’ll be shocked to know – mostly skeptics. Many of us here have related interests in critical thinking, in science, and in wondering about how the world works. This is just a guess, but it’s ...
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• Forbes Riley, Newest Member of National Fitness Hall of Fame

  
  Health And Fitness Advice — Authority: 115
  Forbes Riley has made a career of selling the healthy lifestyle.  For the better part of 2 decades Forbes has been responsible for selling over $2 billion worth of in-home fitness and wellness products, including Jack LaLanne’s Juicer and her own product, the Spin Gym.In 2010 Forbes will be inducted in the National ...
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