For those of you who have not noticed, there’s a new skeptical podcast in town. A couple other CORI members and I have launched CORICast, and you can get it at http://ohioskeptic.com/podcast, or subscribe via your favorite MP3 player at http://feeds2.feedburner.com/coricast. Please give us your feedback on CORICast either at the webste or [...]
Read entire post →Much as I’d like the title here to refer to dancing at our last Drinking Skeptically event, we’re talking about ghosts, the people who experience them, and those who hunt them for a living. My own experience with ghost hunting on a personal level was rather unremarkable, or at least, the explanation proved to [...]
Read entire post →Whew. What a Saturday.
I arrived at SkeptiCamp Ohio around 11:30 or so, with my daughter, ‘E’, in tow. She was going to attend the Camp Quest mini-session that day. We were obviously early, but Kim and Amanda were very welcoming and E immediately set about playing. I did [...]
Last night, I was talking with my wife, and she pointed out a bumper sticker that her father had just purchased. “See, they include science.”, she said, knowing that I am both an Atheist, and a cheerleader for science.
My initial reaction was pleased, then as I thought about it, I became [...]
There are lots of reasons that people don’t question claims, and most of them fall into the bucket of one logical fallacy or another. There’s the Argument from Personal Incredulity: I just can’t believe that xxx could be right, so it must be this other thing that I understand better. There’s the [...]
Read entire post →Friday morning on Jan 30 got me up a little more excited than usual. (Aren’t you always excited to go to work?) I was going to my daughter, E’s, school that day to participate in the COSI on Wheels event. I am, of course, a total science nerd, and love to play [...]
Read entire post →I’m sitting in the car with the kids, waiting for my wife to retrieve something from the local craft store, when this breaks loose:
E: “Daddy?”
Me: “Yes?”
E: “What’s the Flying Spaghetti Monster?”
Me: “It’s a little mass of spaghetti with two meatballs and two eyes.” Technically correct, I suppose…
E: “No, I mean [...]
Recently I started evaluating a “healthy living” type of web site, for my own personal use. I was skeptical, of course, of the usefulness of the site at the beginning. It had all the flashy banner ads, weight loss pictures, and testimonials of many other sites I had seen in the past. Most [...]
Read entire post →For those of you who don’t know or haven’t met me yet, I’m a database consultant by trade, and that brings me into contact with many people, with all different types of cultural backgrounds. I was sharing an office at the time with “J” a gentleman from Thailand, and another gentleman, “E” from Indonesia. [...]
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