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GG is a longtime skeptic and agnostic. She works as the VP of an energy company that specializes in natural gas processing technologies. She has also raised two good-looking skeptical sons. She blogs about nothing at www.twodifferentgirls.com
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Skeptics in the Caribbean
A couple years ago I took a fun trip with friends and new acquaintances to the Caribbean, with a “‘Skeptics of the Caribbean” theme, playing up on the pirate aspect. The trip was coordinated by my friend Jeff Wagg, who… Read More ›
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London with the Boys
Part 4 of the Blood and Guts Tour I had booked in the Green Park Hilton in London because I had accumulated enough points for one of the three nights we were staying in the city. It is in the… Read More ›
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Dr X – My Misogynist Engineering Professor
Engineering: The creative application of scientific principles to design or develop structures, machines, apparatus, or manufacturing processes, or works utilizing them singly or in combination; or to construct or operate the same with full cognizance of their design; or to… Read More ›
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Scenes outside of Juneau
A few years ago, I had the opportunity to spend a few hours in and around Juneau, Alaska. (This was before most Americans had ever heard of Sarah Palin, by the way.) While many of my travel companions elected to… Read More ›
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Visiting Chislehurst Caves in England
Except they are not really caves. Chiselhurst has a 22-mile long network of quarries, where soft chalk and flint has been mined for hundreds of years. The site is part of an independent Heritage Trail, rather than part of a… Read More ›
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Seeing Ghosts
(Note: This article appeared previously in a different format on SWIFT, the newsletter of the James Randi Educational Foundation, July 2009) I saw a ghost. Or maybe it was a spirit. I was a young teen, maybe 13. In the… Read More ›
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Some Travel Isn’t Glamorous
This week, I have to be on location at one of the processing plants my company designs, builds, owns, and operates. I’m sitting in the lounge-bar area, talking to some friends on IRC, reading the news, and sipping on a… Read More ›
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On Being a Girl, and Chemistry Sets
When I was a school girl, my parents received Sears catalogs on a regular basis. Each fall, a large Sears Wishbook , with over 300 pages, would arrive in the mail. I remember pouncing on these catalogs, skipping over all… Read More ›
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Traveling Israel: Old Jerusalem and the Holy Selpuchre
Dateline: Jerusalem 1846 On this Good Friday the Latin priests arrived with their white linen altar-cloth to find that the Greeks had got there first with their silk embroidered cloth. The Catholics demanded to see the Greeks’ firman, their decree… Read More ›
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