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Skeptic Summary #62
By The Staff
Posted on: 10/15/2005
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10,000 floors and rising, hobbits, a real surprise, baloney and more!
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Week ending October 15, 2005 (Vol 2, #41)
Welcome to the Skeptic Summary, a quick week-in-review guide to the Skeptic Friends Network and the rest of the skeptical world.
Forum Highlights:Going up? The space elevator project - It’s slightly more feasible than the space escalator project…
Homo Floresiensis: Antiwedge, now 9 specimens - Maybe they evolved into the minor leagues.
Editor’s Choice: My argument against evolution - This is very interesting, but not because of any evolutionary content. Kil’s Evil Pick:The Fine Art of Baloney Detection by Carl Sagan. This blast from the past is a must read for skeptics! Chat Highlights:Sunday: First out: a new visitor, Paranoid from a Direct Connect hub; Xena (and Gabrielle) the planetoid; weird things that people invent; consequences when irresponsible pet-owners ignore local ecology as they relase unwanted pets. Also: examples of unreliable memory; movies - The Matrix and The Thirteenth Floor, with more than one level of reality; the language all computer programmers know best: bad language (prophanities).
Wednesday: Your host was late (does that even need to be mentioned anymore?) to a small but interesting Wednesday night chat contrasting the different values of feelings versus reason (deep, I know). Also: living longer; dealing with difficult debates; letters; voting Republican; voodoo economics?; more urban dead; Percocet and toe problems! Curious? Stop by next week!
Come chat with us. New Members this Week:Garum1
swpalmer
Ayla
ejsaunders
ASR
skiender
(Not a member? Become one today!)
Elsewhere in the World:Bad Science
Flagellate might be study in evolution
Science & Technology Web Awards 2005
Got some skeptic news items? Send them to us, and we’ll think about adding them. Book of the Week:Tales of the Rational: Skeptical Essays About Nature and Science, by Massimo Pigliucci
“You will come away refreshed, with your mind challenged by what is now not as simple as it seemed…”
— Ed Buckner, Atlanta Freethought News, June 2000
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