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I'm an amateur skeptic, a student, and a fractal art hobbyist. I am not a professional scientist, philosopher, paranormal investigator, journalist, or other accredited academic or researcher, but that's something I'm currently in the process of remedying.
Just a note: I generally try to avoid being a jerk, and I'll treat all commentors with the same level of civility they show to me. I can be a smartass at times, but I'll rein in my tone and keep it to a level appropriate to the situation.
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I noticed that they're being scrupulously careful not to hype this, which is good. That and Sykes' q
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Don't despair over the Oxford-yeti bit. Brian Sykes is an expert in mDNA. He has tracked much of hum
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Love the quote about Reagan.
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Anne’s Ramblings- Sausage and Sauerkraut Friday, 0:08, April 27, 2012 noreply@blogger.com (Anne)
- Astronasty
- Liquid And Metal In Motion - Bizarre Art Sunday, 0:55, May 6, 2012 dj Busby
- Atlanta Skeptics
- Spelling diversityjf without “JREF” (CROSSPOST) Monday, 17:41, September 19, 2011Note: I’m cross-posting this from my blog. I normally wouldn’t do this, but this is both a topic directly relating to skepticism and something I want to talk to the Atlanta Skeptics about. Brian Thompson has posted a response on the JREF’s blog as well, and it’s worth a read. Last week’s Virtually Drinking Skeptically [...]Christian Walters
- Spelling diversityjf without “JREF” (CROSSPOST) Monday, 17:41, September 19, 2011
- Bad Astronomy Blog
- Dragon hunting above, dragon hunting below Sunday, 13:10, May 27, 2012On May 23 — the day after the SpaceX Dragon capsule launch — International Space Station astronaut André Kuipers snapped this shot of the Earth: [Click to ensmaugenate.] André — who’s Dutch — put this up with the caption "Er zit een draak achter ons aan!" — "There’s a dragon after us!". That […]Phil Plait
- Dragon hunting above, dragon hunting below Sunday, 13:10, May 27, 2012
- Bad UFOs Blog
- "Top Ten" UFO Case - Yukon, Canada, 1996 - BUSTED! Monday, 16:54, April 30, 2012 noreply@blogger.com (Robert Sheaffer)
- ♡ Books, Crafts & Pretty Things
- Cat Thursday - That's not a cat - THIS is a cat! Thursday, 11:06, May 24, 2012 Kate Campbell
- Call Me The Breeze
- Angel @JinJinDoggy Friday, 4:32, May 18, 2012 noreply@blogger.com (Mr. Breeze)
- CAT CHAT
- Pet Supplies Plus opens Kitty City II free-roaming cat adoption center in White Lake Twp., Michigan Sunday, 4:05, May 27, 2012 noreply@blogger.com (Cat Chat With Caren And Cody)
- Dealing with Creationism in Astronomy
- Electric Universe: Peer Review Exercise 3 Sunday, 23:54, May 27, 2012 noreply@blogger.com (W.T."Tom" Bridgman)
- Dexterity Unlimited
- Everybody Draw Mohammed Day, 2012 Edition Sunday, 20:10, May 20, 2012 Dan J
- Direct Spiritual Contact
- Surrender and Connection to Being Monday, 2:37, December 26, 2011We want to feel happy or in balance. We don’t want to be depressed or dissatisfied. But no matter what the content our present experience is, even if it’s depression, there’s no getting around the fact that even within that depression we are connected to the larger existence, to Being. If we are aware of [...]Aliman
- Surrender and Connection to Being Monday, 2:37, December 26, 2011
- Doctor Kaku’s Universe
- The Business of Mining Asteroids Friday, 1:08, May 4, 2012Recently, a group of Google and Microsoft billionaires, film maker James Cameron, directors of the X-Prize Foundation (Peter Diamandis), founder of the commercial space tourism company Space Adventures (Eric Anderson), former astronauts, etc. have banded together to propose a new, game-changing ...Read MoreMichio Kaku
- The Business of Mining Asteroids Friday, 1:08, May 4, 2012
- Doubtful
- Facts? You keep using that word, Bigfoot hunters. Friday, 0:35, April 27, 2012“You are Not Entitled to Your Own Bigfoot Facts” is my latest piece up on Sounds Sciencey. It’s a continuation on this piece which still gets a lot of hits on the site. In this one, I take to task some self-styled Bigfooters who consider speculation as “fact”. It gets pretty silly… Self-styled Bigfoot researchers [...]idoubtit
- Facts? You keep using that word, Bigfoot hunters. Friday, 0:35, April 27, 2012
- Doubtful Newsblog
- Marking graves by dowsing is a strange waste of time. Sunday, 22:59, May 27, 2012Women ‘witch’ for lost graves in ND oil patch in hopes of protecting sites from drilling | The Republic. Leann Pelvit and Romana Raffaell, armed only with old wire coat hangers and comfortable shoes, are determined to find the children’s final resting places and other lost graves along the North Dakota-Montana border. The grave-seekers […]idoubtit
- Marking graves by dowsing is a strange waste of time. Sunday, 22:59, May 27, 2012
- Ex Fundamentalist
- Untitled Sunday, 21:39, May 27, 2012 noreply@blogger.com (Ex Fundamentalist)
- Exposing PseudoAstronomy
- Eclipses and Pole Shifts Friday, 9:23, May 25, 2012Introduction First, this post is a bit of a show-off for my recent photography. That said, it is also a musing on one of the more bizarre claims out there that the sun and/or moon are no longer rising/setting where they’re “supposed” to. So let’s get the first part over with first … My Photos [...]Stuart Robbins
- Eclipses and Pole Shifts Friday, 9:23, May 25, 2012
- Feisty Girl
- Untitled Tuesday, 2:30, May 22, 2012Filed under: Just Sayin'Evolution Child
- Untitled Tuesday, 2:30, May 22, 2012
- For The Love of Teaching
- Anchor Charts in my Classroom Friday, 0:26, May 18, 2012With only nine days left in the school year, I am reflecting on what worked best on my classroom walls. What anchor charts worked well...and what didn't. I believe classroom walls should be usable...not just frilly decorations. Beyond that, students should be involved in the creation of anchor charts that hang in the room. Here are the anchor charts I s […]Diane Dahl, M.S. Ed.
- Anchor Charts in my Classroom Friday, 0:26, May 18, 2012
- Freedom from Dogma
- Fuck Bad Language! Thursday, 6:05, September 1, 2011 bluharmony
- Free Thinking Blog
- The Morning Heresy 5/25/12: Born Outside the Fence Paul Fidalgo
- Hot-For-Jesus Former Fundie
- Last Gasps of 2012 Women's History Month Friday, 20:44, March 30, 2012 noreply@blogger.com (Christine Vyrnon)
- ICBS Everywhere
- Mission Drift, Conflation, and Food For Thought Sunday, 22:39, May 27, 2012In my last post, I took issue with the a number of problems with a particular straw man complaint that organized skepticism is too narrow. As part of that post, I wrote: …skepticism, secularism, and atheism are different things. Among them, secularism has the closest ties with liberal ideology, but even secularism is not liberalism. Shane Brady left a […]Barbara Drescher
- Mission Drift, Conflation, and Food For Thought Sunday, 22:39, May 27, 2012
- il labirinto armonico | my brother’s music blog
- 12 Thoughts on Music Making Thursday, 0:52, September 8, 2011Sage advice from cellist Colin Carr: Listen with your whole soul. Be true to the composer in every respect. Be true to yourself in every respect. In great music these two have to coexist. Don’t play the music — too controlling — but let go enough to allow yourself to be played by it. Develop [...]Steven
- 12 Thoughts on Music Making Thursday, 0:52, September 8, 2011
- I’m From Nothing
- small things matter Thursday, 0:58, April 12, 2012I have received a tremendous honor in being invited to speak at the #140conference in New York City this June 19. I have secured a place to stay with the a lovely artist and her husband. The are the Aunt and Uncle of my friend and colleague at the HELP Institute. I need to raise [...]revolution
- small things matter Thursday, 0:58, April 12, 2012
- The James Randi Educational Foundation
- MMA Star Brent Weedman Fights the Fakers, Reps for the JREF Friday, 16:02, May 25, 2012 djgrothe@randi.org (D.J. Grothe)
- Khartford’s Blog
- my story..short version Saturday, 12:46, May 29, 2010forwarned is forarmed….This is my first time writing in ages, so please bear with me. Six years ago I lived in southern california, I was a wiccan that attended narcotics anonymous meetings and worked for a chinese medical dr (Accupuncturist … Continue reading →khartford
- my story..short version Saturday, 12:46, May 29, 2010
- krissthesexyatheist
- Play Away Teh Gay Friday, 15:55, May 25, 2012 noreply@blogger.com (krissthesexyatheist)
- Laci the dog’s blog
- Shona Laing – (Glad I’m) Not A Kennedy Thursday, 16:15, May 17, 2012And while we’re on the topic of current events reminding us of songs, here’s Shona Laing’s (Glad I’m) Not A Kennedy: I’m not sure how someone who married into the family could fall victim to “the curse” though.lacithedog
- Shona Laing – (Glad I’m) Not A Kennedy Thursday, 16:15, May 17, 2012
- Lagunatic’s Blog
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- Left Hemispheres
- Quiet Company Makes Some Loud Statements Saturday, 19:12, May 26, 2012Check these guys out. Pop-y, accessible, atheist. Stream their new album 'We Are All Where We Belong' via Bandcamp.com. The river's wide, that I could not swim across it, so I convinced myself I'd walked up on the waves. The river's wide, that I could not swim across it, so I told everyone I'd walked up on the waves. But I lie […]Nick
- Quiet Company Makes Some Loud Statements Saturday, 19:12, May 26, 2012
- LOLTheist: Blasphemy is Teh Funneh
- Thanksgiving Over. Christmas commence. Or Commerce. Whatever. Saturday, 15:00, November 27, 2010 Metz
- Long Run Blog
- Dimon Loses Sparkle or “It’s not a hedge if you are the bar” Thursday, 14:28, May 17, 2012The news about Jamie Dimon’s JP Morgan losing over $2B has caused quite a debate. The point I’d like to address, is whether or not JPM was “gambling”. You see, on CNBC this week, Maria Bartiromo tried to make fun of Senator Harry Reid who intimated that JPM was gambling and should just move to [...]Brett
- Dimon Loses Sparkle or “It’s not a hedge if you are the bar” Thursday, 14:28, May 17, 2012
- Lousy Canuck
- LOLcats: the later years Sunday, 3:21, May 27, 2012The route down which all LOLcats go. So very sad. (Trigger warning for sexual exploitation.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9OeX8PTk-A Via Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal Theater. What’s interesting about this short film is, it treats the average LOLcat as a person who might actually have issues with the kind of problematic exploitation that a real […]Jason Thibeault
- LOLcats: the later years Sunday, 3:21, May 27, 2012
- Mad Art Lab
- Sunday Morning Illusion AI Sunday, 14:07, May 27, 2012The following has been floating around for a while. Have a read. Note, tough, that this is not a real study. Arocdnicg to rsceearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer are in the rghit pcale. [...]Ryan
- Sunday Morning Illusion AI Sunday, 14:07, May 27, 2012
- Martin S. Pribble
- The Lion, the Scarecrow, and Dorothy, Oh My! Who’s Missing? – By Thomas Lawson Saturday, 23:11, May 26, 2012Guest post by Thomas Lawson At the recent American Atheists convention in Washington, D.C., former Pentecostal pastor Jerry DeWitt, out of Louisiana, shared his story of committing social suicide by “coming out” to his family, friends, and religious congregation; that he had accepted his doubts and had become a full-fledged nonbeliever. Later, D […]martinspribble
- The Lion, the Scarecrow, and Dorothy, Oh My! Who’s Missing? – By Thomas Lawson Saturday, 23:11, May 26, 2012
- Meddling Kids
- A Gorgeous Video Wednesday, 1:46, May 23, 2012I saw the below video by The Thinking Atheist posted on Pharyngula just now, and I have to say it was a magnificent video. I love the idea behind it, and felt it was worth sharing in my own little … Continue reading →biguglyjim
- A Gorgeous Video Wednesday, 1:46, May 23, 2012
- National Center for Science Education
- Oklahoma okay at last Friday, 22:45, May 25, 2012When the Oklahoma legislature adjourned sine die on May 25, 2012, no fewer than three legislative attempts to attack the teaching of evolution and of climate change were finally laid to rest. All three would have encouraged teachers in the public schools of the Sooner State to present the "scientific strengths and scientific weaknesses" of "co […]Glenn Branch
- Oklahoma okay at last Friday, 22:45, May 25, 2012
- NeuroLogica Blog
- Understanding Evolution and Being a Good Doctor Friday, 12:12, May 25, 2012I need to dip into the topic suggestions more often. Here is a good recent question: Hi Dr. Novella, Over at Why Evolution is True Jerry Coyne wrote about Ben Carson, the creationists doctor at Johns Hopkins, saying some bizarre stuff about evolution. In the comments a couple people have made the point that they [...]Steven Novella
- Understanding Evolution and Being a Good Doctor Friday, 12:12, May 25, 2012
- One Furious Llama
- My thought for the day Wednesday, 9:00, May 23, 2012Be totally awesome or don’t be at all.onefuriousllama
- My thought for the day Wednesday, 9:00, May 23, 2012
- Open Parachute
- “Web monkeys” and science presentation Sunday, 2:22, May 27, 2012Here’s an inspiring tale for young scientists. If you are working on presentations for a conference it’s always tempting to try something new which might create interest, wake up those who have fallen asleep or just to get your point … Continue reading →Ken
- “Web monkeys” and science presentation Sunday, 2:22, May 27, 2012
- Richard Wiseman Blog
- It’s the Friday Puzzle! Friday, 6:00, May 25, 2012Last night seven of my friends went to a local restaurant. They each handed over their coat as they entered. At the end of the evening the staff returned the coats, but they were totally incompetent and randomly handed out the coats to my friends. What is the probability that exactly six of my friends [...]Richard Wiseman
- It’s the Friday Puzzle! Friday, 6:00, May 25, 2012
- Sensuous Curmudgeon Blog
- A Few Questions for Creationists Sunday, 21:56, May 27, 2012We’ve explained many times why we won’t debate creationists (see Debating Creationists is Dumber Than Creationism). We don’t even like to talk to them. But for those who enjoy that sort of thing, you might consider asking one of these … Continue reading →The Curmudgeon
- A Few Questions for Creationists Sunday, 21:56, May 27, 2012
- Sessions with Slau
- Mixerman Interview Monday, 14:59, January 10, 2011Mixing is neither a linear process nor a technical one. It’s a musical process, and as such, a mix is some thing that one performs—like an artist. —Mixerman from “Zen and the Art of Mixing” Mixerman (a.k.a. Eric Sarafin) has certainly done his share of interviews in print but when I searched for recorded interviews, [...]slau@sessionswithslau.com (Slau)
- Mixerman Interview Monday, 14:59, January 10, 2011
- Skepticator Combined Feed
- Leeds Skeptics in the Pub Events: You know less than you think Sunday, 4:00, August 19, 2012Every day we all make perceptions of people and the world around us. But perception is a two-way process and most people don't stop to think about the biases inherent in their own perception. What are these cognitive biases and how much can they affect our judgement? In this talk Paul Hopwood is going to look at some of these biases and provide examples […]
- Leeds Skeptics in the Pub Events: You know less than you think Sunday, 4:00, August 19, 2012
- SkepticBlog
- MPG vs L/100km Thursday, 9:00, May 24, 2012One disadvantage of living in a country stuck using non-metric measuring systems is that we’re also stuck using a few related measures. One of the most familiar of these is mpg, miles per gallon. Many other countries use a newer standard, l/100km, liters per 100 kilometers. The salient difference between the two is not merely [...]Brian Dunning
- MPG vs L/100km Thursday, 9:00, May 24, 2012
- Skeptophilia
- Peopling the world with pyromaniac goblins Friday, 11:17, May 25, 2012 noreply@blogger.com (Gordon Bonnet)
- The Litter Box Revisited
- An Update Tuesday, 21:19, March 13, 2012 noreply@blogger.com (Skepticat)
- The Rogues Gallery
- A Grief Reminder Tuesday, 11:42, April 24, 2012My friend Mark sent an article my way today via Facebook. Courtesy of The Hartford Courant (the oldest continually running newspaper in America, for the moment), their ‘Business’ section of the website reports that a local engineer is manufacturing “hand held devices” for “effects associated with paranormal.” That is the […]Evan Bernstein
- A Grief Reminder Tuesday, 11:42, April 24, 2012
- The Skeptical Teacher
- Addressing Birthers: Turning the Tables and Outright Mockery Thursday, 2:22, May 24, 2012In the last few days, the political process in the great state of Arizona has been made a mockery of by one of its own highest elected officials, Arizona secretary of state Ken Bennett. That’s because Bennett mentioned last week in an interview that due to “outstanding questions” regarding President Obama’s citizenship, he might have […]mattusmaximus
- Addressing Birthers: Turning the Tables and Outright Mockery Thursday, 2:22, May 24, 2012
- The Tao of Chaos
- Writing Labor Of Love Saturday, 6:12, February 18, 2012^^Click the cover to see it on Smashwords^^ One of the beauties of self-publishing ebooks is that there’s no question of where the rights lie, they’re all mine. So I get to post my covers, excerpts, or whatever I like from them where I please. Which means I get to get to talk about writing [...]sbart023
- Writing Labor Of Love Saturday, 6:12, February 18, 2012
- The X Blog
- Sunday Funnies Sunday, 14:49, May 27, 2012Below the fold:...Greg Laden
- Sunday Funnies Sunday, 14:49, May 27, 2012
- Troythulu’s Blogspot Site
- Fractal of the Week: Excelsirax Sunday, 3:28, April 1, 2012 noreply@blogger.com (Troythulu)
- Troythulu’s Main Tumblr Page
- “Indigon” Sunday, 14:46, May 27, 2012“Indigon”
- “Indigon” Sunday, 14:46, May 27, 2012
- Virginian Opinions
- Jessica Ahlquist: Winning the battle, losing the war…. Saturday, 0:58, January 28, 2012Well, she was successful, and in my opinion, delivered a strategic setback to secularism. Jessica Ahlquist, a student at Cranston High School in Rhode Island filed a law suit with the ACLU to have a banner that has hung in her high school’s auditorium for the last 50 years, immediately removed. Apparently this story was [...]Carl
- Jessica Ahlquist: Winning the battle, losing the war…. Saturday, 0:58, January 28, 2012
fraid not, though i did feel a tenseness/urge