Thursday, May 10, will have a brand new Mystery Solved! strip ready for you thanks to a quick assist from super friend, Allen Gladfelter!
Shortly thereafter, there will be two brand new Mystery Solved! stories, the first of which will feature the art of Meg Sevyrud!
Thanks so much to everyone for their patience as I made a sudden, drastic, positive career change. It put me further behind than I had hoped, but I am excited about where things are going!
I know that this video is old, but I was cruising through YouTube this morning and I came across it again. It’s James Randi’s TED presentation from 2010, and it’s wonderful. It’s a basic primer on Randi’s brand of skepticism and is a lot of fun….it even has one of my favorite bits: Randi ingests an entire bottle of homeopathic sleeping pills demonstrates their inefficacy. Anyway, if you’ve never seen it, enjoy! It’s fun stuff.
I know this song is a few years old, but I had it stuck in my head this morning thanks to crew over at Mad Art Lab. I LOVE They Might Be Giants as it is, but this entire album is just great.
I’ve been listening to A LOT of Zappa lately as well. There’s just something exciting about songs that carry with them a message of rationality and anti-mysticism. Zappa’s album, You Are What You Is, has been in constant rotation for me over the past several weeks…which also helps explain the title of our current story arc.
Anyway, that’s today’s non sequitur. Enjoy the music below!
This past weekend, one of my personal heroes celebrated his 83rd birthday. If you’ve read any of my older blog posts, you’ll know that Randi is and was a very important figure early in my adult life. Through his work and his books, he taught me a lot and thereby built a reasonable critical thinking base into a skeptical and scientific worldview.
I’ll spare you any more gory details and just encourage you to peruse the old “How I Became A Skeptic” blog posts from late Summer/early Fall 2010—grammatical errors and all.
The first book I ever read by Randi was The Faith Healers. So in honor of The Amazing Randi’s birthday, and that book, I thought I would share one of my favorite Randi moments:
Happy birthday Amazing one!
