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Eve’s Skepticamp Presentation: The Mythical Origins of Dirty Words
Me again. A few weekends ago, Eve delivered a talk at Skepticamp Atlanta about cunts, shit, fucking, and shit-fucking cunts. The Mythical Origins of Naughty Words from Atlanta Skeptics on Vimeo. Not...
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…And on the fifth and sixth days, God created dragons
Are you sitting comfortably? Good, then we’ll begin. In today’s lesson we’ll be discussing a wondrous book from the fine folks at Answers in Genesis. It’s Dragons: Legends & Lore of Dinosaurs, by...
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Shakespeare and Skeptoid Redux
Brian Dunning has dedicated his most recent episode of Skeptoid to the manufactured Shakespeare “authorship controversy.” The last time he discussed Shakespeare, I applauded his conclusions but...
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Skeptical Humanities Panel at Dragon*Con
We’ve been out of commission for a few weeks. I am working on another edition of the conspiracy theory round up this evening, but to tide you over, I’d like to direct you to a video that just went up,...
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Google Translate Fail
So, I have a subscription to The Dictionary of English A to G Online (because who doesn’t?), and I was using it on Chrome. Google Translate, noticing that I had stumbled onto something foreign-looking,...
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Bob on the BEASTcast talking about the Denver Airport
Last week I was interviewed by the BEASTcast about the Denver International Airport conspiracy theory, as well as a good bit about the humanities and skepticism. That interview is out today. Thanks to...
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Jesus H. Christ (Mrs.)
Adapted from my segment on Virtual Skeptics. That’s Virtual Skeptics, available now for all your skeptical needs on YouTube or virtualskeptics.com. Last week, Karen L. King, the Hollis Professor of...
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For the Love of Yeti, Bigfooters, Read a Primary Source!
Earlier this year, I wrote (twice) about an outrage to sense, science, history, folklore, grammar, punctuation and all that is good in the world, called Claws, Jaws and Dinosaurs by “Dr.” Kent Hovind...
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Review of Shakespeare’s Beehive, Part 1
George Koppelman and Daniel Wechsler. Shakepeare’s Beehive: An Annotated Elizabethan Dictionary Comes to Light. New York: Axeltree Books, 2014. Kindle ed. Last week, Shakespeare fans celebrated the...
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Review of Shakespeare’s Beehive, Part 2
Note: this essay is cross-posted at Skepticality. In my previous post about Shakespeare’s Beehive, the book in which antiquarian booksellers George Koppelman and Daniel Wechsler argue that they have...
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