NCAS Public Lecture Series
BIG–If
True
Adventures in Oddity
Adventures in Oddity
YouTube Live Event with Q and A
Presented by
Benjamin Radford
Research Fellow, Committee for Skeptical Inquiry
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The world is full of strange stories and marvelous mysteries, from crop circles to monsters, aliens to psychics.
Benjamin Radford is longtime deputy editor of Skeptical Inquirer science magazine, and a Research Fellow with the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, a non-profit educational organization. Over the past twenty years he has investigated dozens of mysterious and unexplained phenomena. He is author of a dozen books and thousands of articles on media and science literacy and co-host of the Squaring the Strange podcast.
There will be an online question-and-answer segment after
the presentation.
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The world is full of strange stories and marvelous mysteries, from crop circles to monsters, aliens to psychics.
Join folklorist and
researcher Benjamin Radford as he discusses his
latest book, Big–If True: Adventures in Oddity,
drawing on two decades of first-hand research that
separates fact from fiction using forensics, science,
psychology, folklore, and more. Among the many mysteries
examined are curses, Bigfoot, reincarnation, chupacabras,
Icelandic elves, conspiracy theories, UFOs, miracles, the
terrifying Texas Goat-Man, crop circles, subliminal
advertising, sea serpents, wandering trees, medical
mysteries, and hypnotist thieves—plus a 1990 Elvis Presley
sighting.
Benjamin Radford is longtime deputy editor of Skeptical Inquirer science magazine, and a Research Fellow with the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, a non-profit educational organization. Over the past twenty years he has investigated dozens of mysterious and unexplained phenomena. He is author of a dozen books and thousands of articles on media and science literacy and co-host of the Squaring the Strange podcast.
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January PhACT Lecture
Our skeptical neighbors to the north, the Philadelphia Association for Critical Thinking (PhACT), will host their next online event on Saturday, January 15 at 2 PM ET. Paul Halpern, professor of physics at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, will discuss his latest book, Flashes of Creation: George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate. Event details at http://www.phact.org/meetings.php.
Our skeptical neighbors to the north, the Philadelphia Association for Critical Thinking (PhACT), will host their next online event on Saturday, January 15 at 2 PM ET. Paul Halpern, professor of physics at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, will discuss his latest book, Flashes of Creation: George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate. Event details at http://www.phact.org/meetings.php.
February NCAS Lecture (Note Special Day and Time)
John Cook, a research fellow at the Climate Change Communication Research Hub at Monash University, will present "Protecting the Public from Misinformation: Using 'weakened misinformation' to inoculate the public against conspiracy theories and other misinformation." Wednesday, February 9 at 7 PM ET, live on the NCASVideo YouTube channel.
John Cook, a research fellow at the Climate Change Communication Research Hub at Monash University, will present "Protecting the Public from Misinformation: Using 'weakened misinformation' to inoculate the public against conspiracy theories and other misinformation." Wednesday, February 9 at 7 PM ET, live on the NCASVideo YouTube channel.
Confessions of Coincidence
By Scott Snell
Over the years, I've become a collector of
coincidences...last night (January 6) was my newest
addition to the collection.By Scott Snell
I was at a Giant
supermarket and saw "Count on Me" on the employees'
company shirts, so I started singing the Jefferson
Starship song of that name to myself.
When I finished
ringing up my order, I saw the total was $19.78.
The song "Count
on Me" was from 1978.
As I've written
in other Shadow columns about coincidences, "We're
surrounded by an incredible number of occurrences and
details, only some of which we even notice, so we should
expect some random 'alignments' of two to happen now and
then. We never notice the many misalignments, so when an
alignment occurs, it seems remarkable, and could be quite
affecting."
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