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An astronomer's personal view on life, the Universe, and everything. Informative, funny, skeptical, and topical, it's mostly cool astronomy stuff and science in general, with a definite slant against antiscience and uncritical thinking.
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Another circuit around the Sun begins
I know it’s traditional to take this time to look back, and to look ahead. And while I’m not a traditional sort of fellow, I do want to take just a moment here and indulge myself. New Year’s is rather arbitrary for a number of reaso...
Randi, skepticism, and global warming
Yesterday, James Randi posted an entry on the JREF’s Swift blog about global warming. In it, he expressed some doubt over the consensus that humans are causing global warming. He does not doubt that warming is happening, as he made clear, just ...
TAM London followup
TAM London was last month, but has created a lasting impression: Skepchick Rebecca Watson and Neil Denny (from Little Atoms) interviewed a bunch of people at TAML, including speakers and audience members. It’s a fun listen. Not only that, but t...
When antiscience kills: dowsing edition
I am no fan of pseudoscience, as you may have guessed. Dowsing is a practice that falls squarely in that field. It’s the idea that you can detect an object — usually water, but sometimes gold, or people, or whatever — using a y-shap...
Carl Sagan Day: November 7
If you’re anywhere near southern Florida on Saturday, November 7, then you need to get yourself over to the Broward College, which is holding the very first celebration of Carl Sagan Day! It’s in honor of Sagan’s birthday, which i...
Houdini escapes skeptics on Halloween
On Halloween, Justin Robert Young and my friend Andrew Mayne tried to raise the spirit of Harry Houdini in a seance at the James Randi Educational Foundation HQ in Florida. The event was live on the intertubez and and the recorded stream is on UStrea...
TAM London video 3: Brian Cox
Regular readers know Brian Cox: he’s a physicist, a rock star, a TV science documentary host, a skeptic, and a friend. At TAM London I did a very brief interview with him. Since he works at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, I had something o...
Amaz!ng Adventure 5
Just a reminder: the James Randi Educational Foundation is holding its FIFTH Amaz!ng Adventure, this time a cruise to the Caribbean. The ship (which looks very nice!) will be visiting St. Thomas, San Juan, and Grand Turk Island, Bahamas. This will be...
TAM London video 2: Ariane Sherine
Last week I posted a video interview I did with George Hrab at TAM London, but I was able to snag a couple more with other interesting and cool people. Ariane Sherine qualifies for both. She is a warm, funny, unprepossessing woman, yet organized the ...
TAM London video 1: George Hrab
While at TAM London I grabbed some short interviews with a handful of the speakers. Here’s the first one: me screwing around with podcaster, musician, skeptic, and funny guy George Hrab. I’ll post the others next week. But if you like t...
London Calling Part 1
Pip pip, ladies and lords! I’m in England, getting ready for TAM London! That starts tomorrow, though there are some festivities tonight (George Hrab in concert!). My hotel charges as much for internet as my last hotel room in the States cost i...
TAM London auctions and an award!
The Amaz!ng Meeting London is now just a couple of weeks away, and we’re busily working on making it a real extravaganza. I’m very excited about our speaker lineup and all the activities planned! Tickets sold out rapidly, but we still h...
