The Skeptics Guide #1004 - Oct 05 2024 (Ad Free)
Added 2024-10-05 15:27:44 +0000 UTCQuickie with Bob: Lunar Mantle Partially Molten; News Items: Heart Function in Space, Schizophrenia Drug, Wood Vaulting, AI Finds Nazca Lines, LISA Gravitational Telescope; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Religious Skepticism; Science or Fiction
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I am a skeptic first, a humanist always, and atheist by association. As a skeptic, I have no religious beliefs (skepticism helped free me from religious leanings). As a humanist, I understand that religion provides comfort for many people. There are many problems with religion, that's a different conversation. When dealing with people that have religious beliefs, I follow the advice of James Randi when he was asked how to deal with family members that believed in woo: "Be kind." Because empathy and compassion are important traits. I've never found the "fire-brand atheism" to be anything except an attempt to be a professional atheist.
Asymetra
2024-10-09 15:09:47 +0000 UTCWooden buildings Sweden 14 stories
Don Kinnell
2024-10-07 12:57:23 +0000 UTChow much fuel will it take to chop down and move the wood into the clay? i guess if it was solar powered machinery it would be a net positive
Milan Pintar
2024-10-06 00:20:16 +0000 UTCI live in Southern Arizona where we have surprising difficulty with clay soils, including clay soils that become concretized (known as caliche). Our native plants (which I’m a huge fan of and have been converting my homes yard to) have workarounds for our dry climate, our alkaline soils and the clay and caliche. Is this also the type of soil that could become a wood vault?
Donna Treadaway
2024-10-05 18:34:44 +0000 UTC"Not all wood floats..." Then by the transitive property, not all witches float.
Scott A Bakkila
2024-10-05 16:47:33 +0000 UTC"Peanut butter is just not a thing" - correct!
Christer Jansson
2024-10-05 15:41:22 +0000 UTC
