Skepticism 
Getting The Message Out ~or~ How Not To Preach To The Choir(0)
Recently I started writing a weekly blog post for my local CFI affiliate, Freethought Fort Wayne. This week however, instead of my usual blog post, I wanted to direct everyone to Tim Farley’s new blog, Skeptical Software Tools (a site that is definitely going on my blogroll). Tim only has one post of note up [...]
Ignorance is nonpartisan
Phil over at the Bad Astronomy Blog notes an interesting Gallup poll that asked participants whether they believed:
that God created humans exactly as they are now sometime in the last ten centuries,
or that humans developed over millions of years but with guidance from God,
or that humans developed over millions of years and God had no [...]
What’s the harm?
One of the common refrains heard when someone is challenged on their paranormal or supernatural beliefs is, “What’s the harm?” After all, if someone believes their grandfather’s ghost gave them solace during a crisis or that the tarot-reading neighbor is able to offer them some slight advantage in navigating life’s choices, who is harmed? At [...]
Revisting the swastika in San Diego
You might remember a couple of months ago when I used this group of buildings at Naval Base Coronado on North Island in San Diego that happens to resemble a Nazi swastika from the air as a way of introducing the concept of Prägnanz from Gestalt psychology. Despite saying very little this was one of [...]