Don: Mighty As Apple Pie Thank you for running Beth Moore-Love’s fascinating and thought-provoking letter in last week’s issue [“Temporary Insanity,” Feb. 7-13]. The vast majority of the [...] Alibi \ Feb 14, 2008 Read More
Convincing Yourself—And Others—You Talk To The Dead [Extended Web Version] On Jan. 31, 2008, I woke up bleary-eyed. My beauty sleep had already been interrupted several hours earlier by my aborted appearance on [...] Benjamin Radford \ Feb 14, 2008 Read More
Odds & Ends Dateline: England– A British businessman is offering motorists the opportunity to get even with England’s much-hated speed cameras–by running over them in a [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Feb 14, 2008 Read More (Eric J. Garcia)
Warp Speed The snowflakes came down fast, Council President Brad Winter talked even faster, and city councilors cleared the Feb. 4 agenda in two hours, [...] Laura Sanchez \ Feb 14, 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
Therapy Dogs A Heartening Dose Of Four-Legged Medicine Quince pushes his wet nose into a patient’s room at Albuquerque’s Heart Hospital. Valerie Peyton is on her back recovering from a heart [...] Jim Scarantino \ Feb 07, 2008 Read More
Odds & Ends Dateline: Croatia– Hundreds of Croatians painted themselves blue and wore silly white hats in an attempt to break the world record for dressing [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Feb 07, 2008 Read More (Eric J. Garcia)
Got A Light? Businesses Open Cigar Bars To Allow Smoking Patrons Indoors. But Is It Legal? At least one bar is trying a new tactic to bring its smoking customers out of the cold. Billy’s Long Bar converted one [...] Simon McCormack \ Feb 07, 2008 Read More (Tina Larkin)
