Mental Illness: A Personal Perspective...continueded
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My personal beef, isn't with psychiatrists, clinical psychologists or mental
health workers per se. Most of the psychiatrists, clinical psychologists,
soci...
How Bad Does This Make Us Look?
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How embarrassing should it be for this country that Iran -- Iran, for god's
sake -- puts its officials on trial for torture and we don't?
Read the comment...
Skepchicamp recap: THIS is how Skepticamp is done!
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Why are you reading a wrap up of Saturday’s event on Wednesday? Because
that’s how long it’s taken me to regain enough energy to write it. Hosting
an unexp...
Chocolate Mascarpone Brownies
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Great news, my croissants turned out wonderful yesterday! I'm very happy
with the results, I can't wait to post my crumb-cut shots to show everyone
the int...
TNQ | Troythulu’s Noontide Query
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Hey, peoples. We’re all skeptical about something, even if we’re skeptical
of skepticism, but even the most hardened critical thinkers aren’t
completely co...
Tub nuggets, CHEERS!
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Lagunatic had a fine morning. I got the kids up, threw us all in the shower,
washed assorted hair, bodies, and faces, and then kicked Julian out so he
coul...
Magnesium for Migraine
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I received the following question from an SGU listener: Recently when I
visited a neurologists with my daughter to seek help for her migraines the
doctor p...
Magnesium for Migraine|Steven Novella|Neurologica
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I received the following question from an SGU listener: Recently when I
visited a neurologists with my daughter to seek help for her migraines the
doctor p...
Arabidopsis thaliana
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Today's Botany Photo of the Day features *Arabidopsis thaliana*, also known
as thale cress.
*Arabidopsis* is a famous model organism1 but it's not as fa...
Picture of the Day - Snapshot of the ISS
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On March 13, 2008, the International Space Station passed across the
field-of-view of Germany's remote sensing satellite, TerraSAR-X, at a
distance of 195 ...
Radio bit on home-schooling, and more angry emails
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The kerfuffle about home-schooling led to an invitation for me to do a brief
segment on Overnight America with Jon Grayson. You can find the segment
here....
Guitar Man
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Musician finally masters extraordinarily difficult guitar part he heard on a
record, only to learn the recording had been made with more than one guitar.
And the battle is won!
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Well, it is indeed. Perhaps You read my previous entry about the ESMO and
problems with obtaining proper funding for our teams in the project. I can
happ...
Do You Want to Be a Christian Apologist?
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Since it seems as though Christian wannabe apologists are now a dime a dozen
then here's a challenge for them. Publish critiques of my two books, Why I
Bec...
Andy Samberg on the Jimmy Fallon show
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Chris Parnell and Andy Samberg perform "Lazy Sunday" live with The Roots.
Chris does a good job pretending that he didn't know Andy was there.
This was t...
Plausibility in Science-Based Medicine
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A question that arises often when discussing the optimal role of science in
medicine is the precise role of plausibility, or prior probability. This is,
in...
A victory for reality in Texas
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I am pleased to write that the creationist and generally anti-reality Don
McLeroy has lost his bid for re-election to the Texas State Board of
Education! Y...
Why is There Something Rather Than Nothing?
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[image: cosmos.jpg]Why is there something rather than nothing? Many
Christian apologists and theologians are fond of this question. Through some
complicate...
10-03-10
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In this week’s eSkeptic, Massimo Pigliucci examines the alleged parallels
that religious scholar, Huston Smith, draws between science and religion.
Curious illusion photos and more sinning
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First, my thanks to everyone who was kind enough to take part in the new
sinner or saint experiment yesterday. If you haven’t participated yet,
please com...
And the winner is… SPACE!
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The ever-fabulous Ian O’Neill hosts this week’s Carnival of Space #144.
There are lots of great astronomical highlights from this week, but I’m
particularl...
The Best Art Show of The Year
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The super best art show ever is at Espresso Metropolitan right now, and will
be showing for the rest of the month. Ever year South Side Art Center brings
t...
Roundup 3/9: The Cleanup Edition
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Ahead of an expected general election in May, there are two more calls for improving British science, one from the U.K. Campaign for Science &...
The Undersea Hunt for Intraterrestrial Life
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"IT" organisms may make up more than half of life on Earth
Despite the impact of mankind, the size of trees, and the sheer numbers of
bugs, multicellular...
The Universe, Season 4
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Coming up on the 15th, we have the bonus riddle. Tom and I are working on
that now, but we have the prize ready to ship out to the winner. The
Universe, S...
Photo of the Day #873: Charlotte
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Charlotte yawns before washing herself, although, on the other hand, she
does look like she could be laughing. Lol.
Read the comments on this post...
Token Skeptic Talking About ‘Loxtongate’
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I blame Twitter for that particular term… Head over to the Token Skeptic
website for the podcast that has started to head off into all sorts of
interesting...
When You Were Just A Twinkle In A Cro-Magnon's Eye
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In the grand scheme of things, humans are mere infants on this planet. Some
creatures alive today were swimming under the sea during the U.S. Civil War
or ...
"MacGruber" Movie To Be Rated-R!
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First off, hey! Now that the formalities are out of the way, you should know
that MacGruber has just received its official rating of "R" from th...
Bugger the burkha
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I started this post yesterday, feeling I should write one to commemorate the
anniversary of this blog, which began a year ago on International Women’s
Day....
Variety: This thumb's for you
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I flew home from the Oscars to find half a dozen e-mails awaiting with the same unbelievable message: Variety had fired its chief film critic, Todd McCarthy....
Western Union Unauthorized Transaction Phishing Scam
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Email claims that money transfer service Western Union has noticed
unauthorized transactions on the recipient's credit card and instructs him
or her to fil...
Mt. St. Helens this week
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Greetings People of Science, I’ll be in Portland, Oregon this Thursday,
March 11 to talk about volcanoes. Set aside a little time and come on down
(or up f...
God does not need your help!
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If there were a God, he does not need your help. Why do so many religious
people feel the need to defend an Almighty Omnipotent Omniscient Overseer?
Since ...
The Literal Story Of Creation
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To all you well read Bible literalists out there, please feel free to
comment on the mistakes in this video. I certainly wouldn’t want to get the
story wro...
Lionel Tiger - God's Brain
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Lionel Tiger, Charles Darwin Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers
University, talks about how religion takes place in brains, and not just in
churches, t...
If it ducks like quack…
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It’s a quack! This is the new creation from The American Institute for the
Destruction of Tooth Fairy Science, the creators of “If water has a memory
then ...
News Items
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VA AG tells universities to be more bigoted The WaPo reports that the
attorney general has urged colleges and universities in Virginia to rescind
their pol...
Vaccine Fears: What is the Pharmacist’s Role?
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It’s Pharmacy Awareness Week. You’re probably not aware of this, neatly
illustrating the challenge pharmacists have in raising their professional
profile ...
Young Men Behaving Badly
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[image: bibleforporn1[1]] Recently the atheist student organization on the
campus of the University of Texas – San Antonio held what I would surmise as
a...
The Trouble With Government Policy
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Moral and pragmatic considerations play a part in most policy making, and
(when convenient) some policy may even be evidence-based. In formulating
policy, ...
Armenian Golgotha
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60 Minutes had a segment tonight on the Armenian genocide of 1915, including
contemporary footage from Syria, where Armenians were deported and massacred
w...
Canada:USA – Joined at the Hip
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In our excitement over cheering for our national teams and the heat of
competition, sometimes we can forget that our closest competitors are also
our close...
The Secret Life of Flies
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If you know me, you know I like my insect photography. I primarily shoot
(and release) live insects. But who amongst us hasn’t seen a dead bug posing
whi...
Ian Rowland: Cold Reader Extraordinaire
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For my inaugural Point of Inquiry episode I interviewed the dashing Ian
Rowland, the world’s leading authority on cold reading. Ian is an English
Mentalist...
iPad About
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iPad About Well bless my soul and whiskers. This is the first time I’ve
joined the congregation at the Church of Apple for a new product launch.
I’ve watch...
Caleb McClendon, You are Going to India!
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Out of almost 400 eligible candidates, Caleb from Columbia, South Carolina
was randomly selected as our winner for the free flight to India! He has
accepte...
RottenBurger Presents: The Lolcat Guide
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RottenBurger presents: The crash course to understanding lolcat culture.
(somehow, a surprising number of people have failed in noticing or
understanding th...
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