Ouija Boards

I have to say, this Derren Brown clip uses a pretty clever trick to test a Ouija board.

I liked Penn and Teller’s test as well.

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Ghost in Disneyland?

My guess? It could be a hoax, or it could be that the video recorder is re-using old videotapes. The recorder isn’t completely writing-over and old recording, so an old image is bleeding-through the new one. (Kind of like if you record over an old cassette tape and [...]

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The Ghost of the Rue Jacob

I occasionally hear ghost-stories from people I know. I actually don’t believe in ghosts, and on the few occasions where I have attempted to investigate these types of things I’ve always ended up with only two results: either no unusual phenomena happens, or I discover that people are misattributing something normal to a ghost.
Even [...]

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Ardipithecus Refutes Darwin’s Theory

Okay, not really. But, that’s what Al-Jazeera is saying:
“Ardi Refutes Darwin’s Theory,” Al Jazeera announced, in an Oct. 3 article not available on the English version of the website. “American scientists have presented evidence that Darwin’s theory of evolution was wrong,” the article opened. “The team announced yesterday that Ardi’s discovery proves that humans [...]

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Judaism’s War Rabbis

A lot of people who read the Bible have trouble combining the war-like tendencies of the Old Testament God with the softer New Testament teachings. The God of the Old Testament kills millions of people (the global flood, the firstborn of Egypt, inhabitants of Canaan, etc).
What if you didn’t have the New Testament? [...]

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Tom Tomorrow Comic

In related news, Obama’s reputation is on the way up at FOX News. Instead of comparing him to the anti-Christ, Stalin, or Hitler, they’re comparing him to a 1920s-style mobster. (Wait, if Obama is a 1920s-style Chicago mobster, does that mean that Glenn Beck has to stop comparing himself to holocaust Jews?)
FOX News [...]

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Scientology’s Tommy Davis Dodges The Question

There’s a new ABC News report on Scientology.
I liked this clip. At 3:40 minutes (about 60%) into this video, Tommy Davis (spokesperson for scientology) gets evasive and feigns indignation to avoid questions he doesn’t want to answer.

He has all the credibility of Balloon-boy’s father -
Mr Heene [Balloon-boy's father] bristled when [...]

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Lies and Slander

This is totally untrue. Pay no attention to the lies.

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Pollution in China

China is well known for having bad pollution. Smog, heavy metals in drinking water, sewage dumped into rivers, bad worker safety – it seems that, in their zeal for industrial development, the environment gets ignored. Some recent pictures show just how bad some of the industrial areas are.
Hebei Province Shexian Tianjin Iron and [...]

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Capuchin Monkeys using Tools

[via Cynical-C]

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