Who Cares About The Killer? Nobody knew it was coming. Nobody knew Stephen Kazmierczak was going to walk into that oceanography classroom and kill five people. Just like [...] Marisa Demarco \ Feb 21, 2008 Read More
Make It Longer Legislators Couldn’t Make Anything Happen In This 30-Day Session. Why Not Add A Few Days? It’s a good thing Gov. Richardson is dragging the Legislature back to work on his health care package. Too bad he couldn’t demand [...] Alibi \ Feb 21, 2008 Read More
Making Sausage Here Are The Greasy Links Your Legislature Did—And Didn’t—Grind Out For You They say it isn’t pretty, making laws. A bill gets introduced, vetted in a series of committees, brought to the floor of the [...] Simon McCormack and Marisa Demarco \ Feb 21, 2008 Read More
Selling Health Care Reform Gov. Richardson is upset the Legislature didn’t pass his proposal for health care reform and is threatening to call it back into Special [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Feb 21, 2008 Read More
How I Became A Skeptic I was not always a skeptic. For much of my childhood, in fact, I was a strong believer in most things paranormal and [...] Benjamin Radford \ Feb 21, 2008 Read More
Answer Me This Hey, lunch lady, what’s this on my tray? Who got deported from Roswell? What pulled the plug on red-light cameras? How much do [...] Marisa Demarco \ Feb 21, 2008 Read More
More Than “Windowless Huts” As the executive director of the Cottonwood Gulch Foundation, I am grateful for the opportunity to respond to Mr. Scarantino’s incorrect and ignorant [...] Alibi \ Feb 21, 2008 Read More
Convincing Yourself—And Others—You Talk To The Dead On Jan. 31, I woke up to hear a man named Robert Baca on the 94 Rock Morning Show claiming to talk to [...] Benjamin Radford \ Feb 14, 2008 Read More (Eric J. Garcia)
Keeping The Faith—In Science New Mexicans For Science And Reasoning Sports A Long List Of Foes New Mexicans for Science and Reasoning racks up enemies. The group’s infuriated creationists, ticked off psychics and has alien believers convinced it’s part [...] Simon McCormack \ Feb 14, 2008 Read More NMSR’s Dave Thomas, left and M. KimJohnson make with the science gab during their radio show on Air America's 1350 KABQ. (Tina Larkin)
Still In The Pound City Misrepresents The Number Of Animal Adoptions Over The Holidays Albuquerque Journal subscribers woke up Christmas Eve morning, stepped outside and scooped up their daily papers. The headline on the bottom left-hand corner [...] Christie Chisholm \ Feb 14, 2008 Read More