Or so says this crazy, ranting lunatic.

Bug Girl’s Blog: “Stupidity….there’s an app for that” is a skeptical look at an iTouch/iPhone app to repel mosquitoes.

Biological ramblings talks about this cool thing that shrikes do. Do you know about the shrikes? It’s cool.

Below the fold. Because that’s where it belongs.
Continue reading Hide in a box or climb on the flying saucer? Decisions decisions. →

Pseudoscience, quackery, and the swine flu.

An Epidemic of Fear: How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endangers Us All

Back in the 1990s, Khristian Oliver (that’s an interesting name) was robbing a man’s home. That man had a rifle to defend his home from robbers, but Khristian took the rifle from him, shot him in the face, and then used the rifle to beat him to death. In this way, the murdered man became one more example of how useful it is to own guns to defend yourself.

But that’s not the interesting part of this story.
Continue reading The Bible says “If ye take a man’s rifle and beat him to death with it, ye shall be put to death” … in Texas. →

Consisting of the many and varied robotic spacecraft exploring our Solar System and parts beyond, the IREL soldiers on tirelessly, often in obscurity and in conditions that would make even the most hardy of human beings question their resolve, all to provide us with the data necessary to enhance our understanding of the Universe. They may only be robots, but they give every ounce of circuitry in the service of completing their missions, in many cases going above and beyond the call of duty to return useful measurements long after their designed operational lifetimes. Join me now as we take a look around the league.

… and Essay at Quiche Moraine.

… I’d still slam the door on their faces.

Hat tip: Atheist Media Blog

How the Perception of an Intact Body Can Go Awry

Twin Cities Skeptics and Minneapolis Skeptics present: “Phantom limbs, alien hand syndrome, the rubber hand illusion…How the Perception of an Intact Body Can Go Awry…”

Details here.