Two events of note: Number 1: The third planning meeting for Skepchicamp Chicago 2010 is on Saturday, November 14th at the Galway Arms Irish Pub in Chicago at 1:30PM. I'm always looking for more speakers or presenters or magicians or whatnot to fill...

I play a lot of solitaire on my iPod Touch. It's seriously problematic at times; just ask my fiancee. Matter of fact, the gadget seems to exist mostly for three purposes: listening to podcasts, surfing the net, and playing solitaire. Over many hours...

To hear believers tell it, the world is awash with evidence for the truth of paranormal phenomena. Why, there are photographs of ghosts, alien spacecraft, and cryptids. There are even videos of all of the above. There's EVP, thermal imagine anomalies,...

Today, in celebration of the Halloween season and of the awesomeness of the movie Zombieland (seriously; go see it if you haven't yet), I searched eBay's "metaphysical" section for "zombie." I really didn't expect to find anything. I should have known...

So I was at Richard Dawkins' lecture at Indiana University Monday night. It was certainly interesting. Like I said in my brief announcement post, I brought my bible in the hopes that he would sign it. He did not; he was only signing his books. I'm...