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Happy Winter Solstice! — Time to Balance Those Eggs
**Note: This is essentially a repost of an earlier entry… Let’s balance some eggs, kids Happy Winter Solstice everyone! It might seem a strange thing to be celebrating, this specific position of Earth...
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Happy Summer Solstice: Skeptical Egg-Balancing Fun!
Happy Summer Solstice everyone! It might seem a strange thing to be celebrating, this specific position of Earth in its orbit around the sun, but we skeptics have our reasons. This, of course, has to...
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Eclipses, Moon Myths & Lunacy
This winter solstice, the night of December 20th and early morning of the 21st, will bear witness to a full lunar eclipse. It seems to me that every time such an event takes place it brings forth all...
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New Years Psychic Prediction Failures: 2010 Year in Review
Among the New Year traditions that seem to get bantered about these days are psychic predictions for the upcoming year. Of course, psychics are a bunch of hooey – ever seen a newspaper headline titled...
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The Shifting of the Zodiac & Why Astrology Fails
For the last couple of days I’ve been getting questions from some of my colleagues about the “shifting of the zodiac” and today one playfully asked me if they were still a Cancer. In fact, I’ve seen...
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Double-Whammy of Stupid Regarding the Japanese Earthquake
I’ve been sitting on this a bit, but I can’t take it anymore. Beyond the idiocy being bantered about much of the media concerning the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan, there is an entire other...
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It’s Equinox Time, So Balance Some Eggs for Science!
Tomorrow, September 23rd, is the autumnal equinox in the northern hemisphere, and it is on this occasion that I like to inject a little skeptical and critical thinking fun into my physics classes....
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Science Does “All the Damn Work”
From my skeptical colleague and fellow blogger Steve over at TreeLobsters.com… ‘Nuff said Filed under: humor, scientific method
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New Years Psychic Prediction Failures: 2012 Year in Review
Well, here we are once again, and it’s time for that time-honored tradition of checking the accuracy of famous psychic predictions of the past year. As you’ll see, when subjected to scrutiny, the vast...
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Weird Al’s Horoscope Song
In honor of “Weird Al” Yankovic’s birthday, I wanted to share with you one of his songs which has a funny skeptical and cynical slant to it… “That’s Your Horoscope for Today” (lyrics here). Enjoy! :)...
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