News Briefs 19-02-2013
Posted by Greg at 12:36, 19 Feb 2013I'm filling some downtime in book-writing by doing some book-writing...
- American space monkeys covered up spy satellite launches. If you're not seeing this in your mind after that headline, I'm disappointed in you.
- Lightning may cause headaches.
- The true story of a 1967 'extraterrestrial contact' incident that changed our view of the cosmos.
- James Randi: Let Survival of the Fittest "act itself out" on those with low IQ and mental aberrations.
- Is it time to give up on skepticism?
- How to be a bad skeptic.
- Third-largest asteroid impact crater discovered in South Australia.
- The top 10 largest meteor craters on Earth.
- Neuroscientists hack into brainwaves to open new frontiers.
- The Singularity is not near.
- Software program could reconstruct the earliest human languages.
- Thousands of dolphins swarm into super mega-pod off San Diego coast.
- Yo dawg! Canines recognise each other in a crowd.
- Haunted house donated after failing to find a buyer.
- TV channel faces fine over psychic claims.
- The first bionic hand that can feel. As long as it can crush the skulls of my enemies, that's all I need.
- The universe may end in a 'Big Slurp'.
Quote of the Day:
If you think you know what the hell is going on, you're probably full of shit.
Robert Anton Wilson
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18 September 2007
54 min 55 sec
Re: Haunted house real estate values.
I have watched many episodes of The Haunted and also A Haunting that begin with the poor hapless victims saying what a great buy the house had been. They are like, "We couldn't believe what a deal it was." Well, after their initiation into various haunted hells they get great insight in to why it was priced the way it was. Some really nastily infested homes go up for sale again every few months as the buyers in effect get chased out of house and home. I was watching some paranormal show the other day wherein a realtor refused to show a certain home to her clients because the place was so haunted and the turnover so high.
Of course, there are plenty of homes that are benignly and even charmingly haunted, and eventually they are lucky enough to find caretakers who are not frightened off by harmless ghosts. Some of these spirits actually "watch after" the inhabitants. It can be a very good arrangement.
18 September 2007
54 min 55 sec
So, explain to me why these psychics are being censured for making unfounded claims when there are all over the telly shows that make similar claims about weight loss pills and the like? No comprendo. This is what we call a double standard.