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• Buy at TAM10, and the JREF gets the money!

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

  

  Available at TAM10, my new skeptic children’s book “Fairy Tales, Fairly Told”. All proceeds from books sold at TAM go to the JREF for skeptic education for children! So consider picking up a copy while you are attending The Amazing… Read More ›

• Collaborating with the “Enemy”

  By Kitty Lapin Agile on July 8, 2012 • ( 4 )

  

  This Thurday at The Amazing Meeting 10 at 4:00 I’ll be part of a panel and workshop about collaborating with the enemy. TAM is a conference of critical thinkers and skeptics, who rarely are quiet about the paranormal misinformation around… Read More ›

• In Dependence Day

  By jeffwagg on July 5, 2012 • ( 9 )

  

  Jen and I decided to head out for a bit on the Fourth of July. We pulled into the local gas station to fuel up. As I removed my wallet to put my card in the reader, I saw a… Read More ›

• Luna Moth!!

  By Kitty Lapin Agile on July 4, 2012 • ( 5 )

  

  The small cabin I live in on the shores of Lake Franklin Pierce shares the space it occupies with nature. Nature doesn’t seem to mind the small bit of wood and roof that sits in the middle of a heavily… Read More ›

• When is a Chain Restaurant not Like a Chain? Rosa’s Cafe

  By Geek Goddess on July 4, 2012 • ( 4 )

  

  In the Dark Ages when I was in high school, a local businessman opened a restaurant called “Rosa’s Café” in Odessa. Since Mexican restaurants are ubiquitous (indeed, sometimes it’s difficult to find anything that is neither a chain nor Tex-Mex),… Read More ›

• The N-word, pets, and do the British get a pass?

  By Kitty Lapin Agile on July 1, 2012 • ( 7 )

  

  My husband and I were recently watching the move “The Dam Busters” on Netflix. This is the story of the brave men of the RAF, who using a radically new and for the most part untried method, bombed dam sites… Read More ›

• A Stranger in an Undiscovered Country

  By jeffwagg on July 1, 2012 • ( 7 )

  

  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 “Asians.” *** I was about 12 when I first visited a “Chinatown.” It… Read More ›

• Fairy Tales, Fairly Told

  By Kitty Lapin Agile on June 28, 2012 • ( 6 )

  

  I have been working on a fundraising project for the past year. The result is the book Fairy Tales, Fairly Told. It is the second critical thinking/skeptic children’s book I have written. The book is for ages 3-10, though for… Read More ›

• Old Hotels: The Oxford in Denver

  By Geek Goddess on June 27, 2012 • ( 4 )

  

  I love staying in historic hotels, so on a trip to Denver this week, and dinner plans with friends in LoDo, I chose the Oxford Hotel to stay in. I didn’t know anything about it, except it was near where… Read More ›

• My daughter tells a joke

  By Kitty Lapin Agile on June 26, 2012 • ( 6 )

  

  This is one of my favorite photographs of my daughter, Evelyn. She is travelling in Jordan, on her way to one of her favorite places, Petra. Evelyn is a seasoned traveler, at a young teenager she went to school in… Read More ›

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