Déjà vu All Over Again
How did the Intelligent Design movement publish in a peer reviewed biology journal? A similar–and notorious–story from climate science sheds...
How did the Intelligent Design movement publish in a peer reviewed biology journal? A similar–and notorious–story from climate science sheds...
Betty Hill, whose tale of being abducted by aliens launched her to fame and became the subject of a best-selling...
The U.S. Supreme Court will consider the constitutionality of Ten Commandments displays on government property, agreeing to address a church-state...
Countless dinosaur bones lie buried in the rocks of South Dakota but the Christians excavating one remote cliff-face were digging...
Humorous and obviously partisan article on how America gave "freedom" to Iraq by way of internet cafés and cell phones.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The Mexican Air Force has released footage of what a UFO expert says are 11 invisible unidentified flying objects picked up by an infrared camera as they whizzed around a surveillance plane.
A long-time believer in flying saucers, journalist Jaime Maussan told a news conference on Tuesday the objects were real and seemed "intelligent" after they at one point changed direction and surrounded the plane chasing them.
"They were invisible to the eye but they were there, there is no doubt about it. They had mass, they had energy and they were moving about," he said, after showing a 15-minute video he said the Defense Ministry gave him permission to publicise.
Early Celts thought the souls of the departed returned and walked among the living on the night of Oct. 31. According to a 1996 Gallup Poll, about a third of Americans agree: Ghosts or spirits of dead people, they told the pollsters, can return in certain places and situations.
But believers aren't the only ones on the lookout for ghosts in late October. This Halloween, I will be at a s�ance, an ironic but traditional attempt by card-carrying skeptics to contact the spirit of Harry Houdini, the world's greatest "ghostbuster."
Houdini's life, and the poignant Halloween ghost story that arose surrounding his death, remains to this day a perfect example of the importance of skepticism and critical thinking at all times - and especially at Halloween time.
ABC probably doesn't want people to think it's in the business of passing off urban folklore stories as real news, or altering the facts of stories to fit a conservative spin. But that's what one of its most listened to broadcasters does--six days a week.
Paul Harvey is regarded as a broadcasting icon. An institution. His radio show, distributed by the ABC Radio Networks, is carried on more than 1,200 radio stations and, according to his own press releases, is heard by 23 million listeners six days a week.
Even if you make allowances for self-promotion, his audience exceeds that of talkmeisters Rush Limbaugh and Dr. Laura Schlesinger. Harvey is advertised as the most listened-to broadcaster in the world.
For more than 40 years, Harvey has been charming listeners with his folksy, down-home style. He calls his broadcasts "visits." While he is perhaps best known for his Rest of the Story feature, three generations have been brought up on his twice-daily newscasts, a 5-minute morning version and a 15-minute noon broadcast. These newscasts consist of a combination of rip-and-read wire copy, with Harvey's patented pregnant pauses and unique inflections, along with a sprinkling of anecdotes passed off as news.
You receive an e-mail chain letter, and you know you shouldn't forward it to ten of your friends: they'll curse your name for clogging up their mailboxes and for wasting Internet bandwidth. But you don't want the bad karma that they say comes from breaking the chain...
At Chain Letters Anonymous, we understand the anxiety of breaking the chain. We want to help you overcome "forward-button addiction" and the superstitious intoxication that brings computer networks to a crawl.
Not everyone has the strength to quit cold turkey, and we fully understand. To help you gradually stop sending chain letters, volunteers at Chain Letters Anonymous are available 24-hours a day in case you "fall off the inbox" and really, really need to send a chain letter to ten of your friends.
Broadcast on CNN, the July 1, 2003 installment of "Larry King Live" was a sight to behold. The program, in King's words, explored "the incredible events of 56 years ago at Roswell, New Mexico." What most likely crashed at Roswell in 1947 was a government spy balloon, but the panel of guests assembled on King's show preferred a more lurid version of events. Jesse Marcel, Jr., son of a Roswell intelligence officer, claimed that just after the crash, his father showed him bits of debris that "came from another civilization." Glenn Dennis, who worked at a Roswell funeral home at the time, said a military officer called him to ask about the availability of small caskets (i.e., for dead aliens). Later Denis, obviously a UFO enthusiast, observed out of nowhere that the pyramids in Egypt had recently been "[shut down] for three or four days and no tourists going out there on account of the sightings."