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New Year’s Prediction Party – 2011

Written on January 13, 2011 at 10:07 pm, by dmaxwell

Greetings, David Maxwell here… As part of the discussion on our last podcast, Mark Plaid, one of our CORICast members, granted me permission to post his Facebook note regarding his 2011 New Year’s prediction party. … Read more →

Skepticism and Atheism – An Open Relationship

Written on November 23, 2010 at 7:31 am, by dmaxwell

There seems to be an interesting series of comments flying around the info-sphere regarding the relationship between Atheism and Skepticism. I’m not going to pretend to be an authority on either one, so I’m just … Read more →

The Black Hole of Science News

Written on November 19, 2010 at 8:13 am, by dmaxwell

Black Holes are formed when a star with a mass of 3 – 4 times that of our Sun, no longer has enough fuel for the energy it generates to withstand the gravitational pull of … Read more →

Letter to the Editor in the Dispatch

Written on November 6, 2009 at 9:44 am, by Jeni

CORI’s letter to the editor in response to Dr. Phillip DeMio appears in today’s Dispatch.

The article was edited, which I expected, and the three references I sited were left out. Here is the original version:

Skepticism in All Things

Written on September 23, 2009 at 9:01 am, by Jen

Over the past week or so, many skeptics online have probably seen the Telegraph UK’s report on the new film Creation, which is a biographical account of Charles Darwin’s life and, specifically, his crisis of … Read more →

New Podcast in Town

Written on September 6, 2009 at 7:29 pm, by dmaxwell

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 … Read more →

Rusty Feet

Written on August 25, 2009 at 3:33 pm, by Kim

*This is a post from a new blog made by Jeni, Kim C, and me.  Please wander over and check us out at negativentropy.* My husband and I packed up the kids a couple weeks … Read more →

Science and Love of the Natural World

Written on August 13, 2009 at 3:00 am, by Jen

This is a combination of two posts written by Jonathan Weyer, a SkeptiCamp 2009 presenter, for his blog The Thomas Society. With his permission, I’m reposting them here for the OhioSkeptic.com audience. Please visit Jonathan’s … Read more →

TAM7 and the Skeptic Community

Written on August 4, 2009 at 2:07 pm, by Jen

As many of you know, I recently took a bit of a last-minute opportunity to dash off to Las Vegas and attend The Amazing Meeting 7, the annual conference of the James Randi Educational Foundation. … Read more →

Bump In The Night.

Written on June 12, 2009 at 11:15 pm, by dmaxwell

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 … Read more →

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