In advance I apologise for the rant you are about to read, so why not kick it off with a bang:
Wow! Peter Geryl is crazy!
Okay, obvious responses aside, after watching the first few minutes of the Bullshit! Episode on 2012 I saw that there was this guy, who staunchly believes that the world will end when the […]
Archive for the ‘Paranormal’ Category
This year has been an excellent one for new books — some of my favorites published this year include:
About 2 months ago, BloggingHeads ran a fascinating 1 hr talk called The Perniciousness of Positive Thinking. Author Barbara Ehrenreich talked about her new book Bright Sided where she explores the negative consequences of the positive thinking fad.
When I was listening to it as soon as I heard the title of the talk I had an initial […]
The absurdity of the occult, beautifully and artfully expressed in this exquisite music video from “Yacht”, a delightful up-and-coming indie band from Portland, Oregon.
Dear People Who Believe In Near Death Experiences (NDEs from now on),
I’m sure most of you are very nice people. And as such, you’d like to benefit humanity. And yet, time and time again I hear stories of people with NDEs who have missed a good opportunity. Many NDEs contain deceased friends and relatives who answer […]
SEVENTY-FIVE ENTRIES! More needed! Get nominating!
Inspired by the annual The Open Laboratory, the Skeptical Blog Anthology is a printed anthology of blog posts voted the very best of 2009, managed by the Young Australian Skeptics in conjunction with the Critical Teaching Education Group (CTEG). The anthology is an attempt to bring a greater awareness of […]
There are fundies out there of all shapes, sizes and species. I was recently reminded of something a friend of mine mentioned regarding a girl he met on a dating site. She claimed to be a vampire (as you do) and she had referred to my friend as being a vampire himself, only not a […]
Inspired by the annual The Open Laboratory, the Skeptical Blog Anthology is a printed anthology of blog posts voted the very best of 2009, managed by the Young Australian Skeptics in conjunction with the Critical Teaching Education Group (CTEG). The anthology is an attempt to bring a greater awareness of the skeptical content on blog […]
[The following is x-posted from my blog, Homologous Legs. Be sure to voice your opinion in the comments after you’ve finished reading, as I know this is a controversial topic.]
The question in the title of this post is a question that relates more to my skeptical and atheistic leanings than my evolutionary ones, as […]
I’m in Year 12 at high school, currently undertaking my final year of VCE (the Victorian Certificate of Education), and a requirement of this is doing a mid-year exam called the GAT (the General Achievement Test). It’s basically a test that applies your science, maths and English skills in ways that don’t require any special […]
