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Photo from NASA Yes ladies and gentleman, it’s that that we all love, time for Jake to dazzle you all with an anecdote where something uncomfortable happens to me and I do my best to twist it into something more universal about all us skeptics in general. Admit it, you’re excited. As I’m sure all of you know, this past week a devastating earthquake rocked Haiti. Two days ago, the country’s Interior Minister said that they’d already found fifty thousand bodies, but they expected the final death toll to be between one and two hundred thousand people. The people are trying to recover, but there’s only [...] Israeli archaeologists have just found their first burial shroud from about 2000 years ago. I thought that would be cool enough, but apparently, National Geographic thinks no one will read the story unless they make it about Jesus and the Shroud of Turin. It’s not all bad news, they’re actually saying that this find makes [...] Jews praying in a synagogue on Yom Kippur, painting by Maurycy Gottlieb. Yesterday began Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement. All over the world, Jews are fasting, and though I am a proud member of NYC Skeptics, I am among them. By spending the day fasting, I do not feel that I am cowing [...] |
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