Hidden away on a side staircase very few people use is a beautiful lamp that shows the diversity of life. I have visited the Natural History Museum whenever I am in Paris, but I had never gone down this staircase… Read More ›
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Ban Porn? Are there enough fig trees in the world to cover it all?
One of the more amusing promises from the recent crop of Republicans vying for nomination has been a promise to “ban porn”. A definition of what exactly qualifies as “porn” has been missing. This leaves the average person with vague… Read More ›
Richard Feynman and James Randi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDvu6wz9qF4 James Randi (the Amaz!ng Randi) is a family friend, and well known critical thinker and skeptic. He leads not only a very interesting life, but also is a most incredible storyteller about that life. I am sharing here a… Read More ›
BIG FOOT, the definitive proof!
BIGFOOT LIVES AMONG US!! DEFINITIVE PROOF!! Skeptics reading this blog might think to themselves “Surely if definitive proof of BIGFOOT had been found it would be the lead story on CNN, not hidden away in an obscure blog.” I say,… Read More ›
Doing Instanbul
Last year I took a Skeptours cruise with two dozen friends, around the Mediterranean. Our embarkation was from Istanbul. Istanbul has been on my bucket list for decades, and was a place that I never thought I would get to… Read More ›
And We Are Off!
Kitty and I are off on another adventure. We haven’t seen each other since last fall, so I’m looking forward to catching up and hearing all her stories about her visit to France and Switzerland earlier this month. We are… Read More ›
An Amaz!ng Breakfast
I’ve been working14-hour days, if you don’t include the driving time, while commissioning a new processing plant in West Texas, for the past few weeks. Kitty is still on her European trip (I should mention here that those two activities… Read More ›
Paris and the Devil that lives there….
Le Diable au Musée The Devil at the Paris Museum If you visit Paris, you may be lucky enough to encounter the devil at the museum. Most visitors come across the devil quite by accident. My own first encounter with… Read More ›
Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
Chaco Canyon, near Farmington, NM. During a business trip to the Four Corners area, and having several hours before needing to make our flight from Albuquerque, my friend and I made a stop at the national monument here. You come… Read More ›
Debunking Pseudoscience with Otherwise Reasonable People
I recently read Did Adam and Eve Have Navels? Debunking Pseudoscience by the late Martin Gardner. It is a collection of some essays from Skeptical Inquiry magazine, and was published in 1999; my paperback edition was updated with comments and addendum… Read More ›
Two Different Girls 