Two Different Girls

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• Père Lachaise Cemetery, a history of two graves….

  By Kitty Lapin Agile on September 21, 2012 • ( 2 )

  

  One of my favorite spots to visit in Paris is Père Lachaise Cemetery. ALWAYS be sure to bring a map you have downloaded online, or buy a map from a florist shop near the entrance. There are no maps once… Read More ›

• Visiting Chislehurst Caves in England

  By Geek Goddess on September 20, 2012 • ( 2 )

  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 ›

• Seeing Ghosts

  By Geek Goddess on September 18, 2012 • ( 4 )

  (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 ›

• Some Travel Isn’t Glamorous

  By Geek Goddess on September 17, 2012 • ( 7 )

  

  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 ›

• Travis and I see a chupacabra….

  By Kitty Lapin Agile on September 16, 2012 • ( 24 )

  

  Travis Roy is the president of Granite State Skeptics. I am the director of investigations for Granite State Skeptics. GSS is our local skeptic group. Local skeptics meet at a restaurant, drink, eat, have some fun once a month. New… Read More ›

• On Being a Girl, and Chemistry Sets

  By Geek Goddess on September 14, 2012 • ( 10 )

  

  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 ›

• Folie à deux and Betty and Barney Hill

  By Kitty Lapin Agile on September 12, 2012 • ( 1 )

  

  I speak about aliens and alien abduction. Next week I am giving a talk in Syracuse about Betty and Barney Hill. http://www.syracusenewtimes.com/newyork/event-14762-cny-skeptics-september-2012-meeting.html The Hill “abduction” is considered the first modern, and widely reported , alien abduction experience. It ushered in… Read More ›

• Traveling Israel: Old Jerusalem and the Holy Selpuchre

  By Geek Goddess on September 11, 2012 • ( 4 )

  

  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 ›

• New Hampshire Skepticamp! (Be there!)

  By Kitty Lapin Agile on September 9, 2012 • ( 2 )

  

  Skepticamp is a fun informal chance for the “average” skeptic to give a short talk in a comfortable “give and take” atmosphere. Reed Esau came up with a wonderful idea, which has grown because it’s just so good! Last year,… Read More ›

• Tentacled Harbingers of the End Times

  By jeffwagg on September 6, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  justpaperskater and I exchange stories by giving each other a word which is the seed for the next correspondence. This is my response to her choice of “Squid.” I admire the restraint Paperskater has had in waiting until now to… Read More ›

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