My sister gave me a crop circle calendar for Christmas. That’s right, the Llewellyn’s 2000 Crop Circle Calendar, most of the contents of which are drawn from the bucolic countryside of southern England, the Holy Land of the crop circle phenomenon.
Skepticism
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Astrology a ‘dirty puddle’
Recently, an astronomer at the Lick Observatory in California found in the institution’s library a horoscope cast by the 17th-century astronomer Johannes Kepler for an Austrian nobleman, Hans Hannibal Huetter von Huetterhofen.
The Cydonia region of Mars, as imaged by the Mars Express spacecraft • ESA / DLR / FU Berlin / Kevin M. Gill (CC BY 2.0)
On Mars, it’s a matter of saving face
Hi folks, I’m your host, Chet Raymo, and this is your favorite talk show, “Let’er Rip.” Our guest today is Barney Bunkum, whose book, “Face-Off on Mars,” takes a hard look at the latest NASA photos from the Red Planet.
A parapsychological experiment • Image by Francis Wickware (Public Domain)
Is it mind over matter, or mind over data?
In a basement lab of Princeton University’s engineering school, a group of scientists is investigating the powers of mind over matter.
Comet Hale-Bopp in April 1997 • Photo by Tequask (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Call it organized skepticism
At the recent Ozark UFO Conference in Eureka Springs, Ark., participants pooh-poohed the idea that a UFO is following Comet Hale-Bopp.
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A matter of mind over mind
For you, dear readers, I put my foot in the fire. But more about that in a moment.
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Are you a skeptic or a true believer?
A 1993 Gallup Poll posed these alternatives to Americans and asked which most closely represents their belief.
A great blue heron in flight • Photo by Tom Raymo (© 2021)
Tuned into the deepest mysteries
Pinned to the wall above my desk is a quote I found many years ago. I can’t remember where it came from, or anything about the author except that his/her name is Dixon.
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Asahara’s flying circus? Thank heaven for the laws of physics
Come, Josephine, we don’t need a machine. Sit with me here on the floor. Cross your legs into the lotus position. Close your eyes.
"The Creation of the Sun and the Moon" by Michelangelo
God of ignorance, or of knowledge?
One million bucks! Perhaps not as prestigious as a Nobel prize, but certainly more money. Physicist Paul Davies is a lucky man.