Thursday, December 8, 2011

Cloaked Romulan spacecraft and the strength of Ockham's Razor

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It is an inevitable danger of being a self-styled rationalist skeptic that I may not recognize credible evidence for something bizarre when ...
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Don we now our gay apparel

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I am constantly amazed at the capacity of the human mind to engage in wishful thinking, even when contrary to fact -- to conveniently explai...
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Tuesday, December 6, 2011

A city on Mars, the Ark of the Covenant, and the Borg cube

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Here at Worldwide Wacko Watch we are closely watching three stories this morning, all sent to us by faithful readers of Skeptophilia. The ...
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Monday, December 5, 2011

Ancient Egyptian helicopters

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I find it amusing to note how often woo-woo headlines are phrased as questions, e.g. "Did Aliens Build Stonehenge?"  "Does A ...
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Saturday, December 3, 2011

Voynich Manuscript redux

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This past May, I did a post on the history of the mysterious and beautiful Voynich Manuscript, which you can read here .  My conclusion was ...
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Friday, December 2, 2011

Pattern finding, the 188-day seismic cycle, and E8

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I'm fascinated by patterns.  I remember the first time I heard about the Fibonacci sequence, in elementary school -- I felt like I'd...
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Thursday, December 1, 2011

ConCERNed

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Two days ago, Yahoo! News ran a story about troubles at CERN, the high-energy physics lab in Switzerland.  It seems like the Large Hadron C...
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