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Skeptic Summary #98

Consciousness, matter, a pyramid, ucky stuff, separation and more!

Consciousness, the border of the universe… - Or, maybe it’s just standard fare for forum-spam.

Matter and the Big Bang - SFN member Robb probably regrets asking this question.

UNESCO scientists to investigate ‘Ice Age pyramid’ - What a waste.

Editor’s Choice: Do not look at this thread - No, really, do not look at it.

From Point of Inquiry, the Center for Inquiry podcast show, “Edward Tabash — True Meaning of Church/State Separation.” Although this show was recorded in May, it is a timely listen to now that the subject is being actively discussed in our forums.

Sunday: Pay deduction for Dr. Mabuse for not being on time; absent but not forgotten members; Summer Solstice celebration and the may-pole; snowing in New Zealand; Google Earth; photographic evidence. Also, testosterone machines, the crawler and the excavator; sports, football world cup and F1; working hours; work with dress-codes; Mel Gibson movies.

Wednesday: Bullshit psychics and why cable TV loves ’em. Nanaca-Crash gets revived at the same time chat gets killed. Trolls, and why they come out from the bridges they live under just to post here. More evidence of chat devolution: Big Slam, to Grand Slam (at Denny’s), to stomach and food puns. More Nanaca-Crash. Started playing around with the chat sounds, staging a fight with the several different punch sounds that were at our disposal. Back to Nanaca-Crash. Then back to chat sounds as Dave and Ricky make a traffic jam with various car horn sounds. A few words about Ricky’ new job, mostly whining. Chat ended with a discussion about how to give a seven-minute speech defending the pro-choice stance, a bit similar to the one Ricky had to do the next day. Odd how that came up as a topic. Oh, did I mention Nanaca-Crash?

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Field Notes from a Catastrophe, by Elizabeth Kolbert.



“Elizabeth Kolbert’s Field Notes, based on a series of articles she wrote for The New Yorker, is illuminating and sobering… The reader is introduced to some of the world’s leading climate researchers who explain the dangers in reasonably nontechnical language but without sacrificing scientific accuracy. The book includes fascinating accounts of how climate changes affected the planet in the past, and how such changes are occurring in different parts of the world right now.”

— Jim Hansen, New York Review of Books

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6. A Brief History of the Skeptic Friends Network (259 views)
7. Crazy mom… (211 views)
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There were 3,523 daily visitors this week.

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There were 15,709 daily visitors in June.