FedEx’s Bad Astronomy
My friend Phil Plait debunks the bad astronomy in the FedEx “moon office” commercial they ran during the Super Bowl.
Sylvia Can’t Stop Robert
A couple of weeks ago, Robert Lancaster was on my show to discuss his StopSylvia.com website, after he made public Browne’s remarkably wrong predictions in the Shawn Hornbeck case. Since then, CNN’s Anderson Cooper has done a couple of biting segments on her, including appearances by James Randi. Apparently, this has touched a nerve, as […]
Jamy Ian Swiss & Phil Plait
Here are two friends I stay in touch with mostly via e-mail, but we always get together once a year at The Amazing Meeting. One is astronomer Phil Plait, the other is magician Jamy Ian Swiss. On Saturday night, Jamy astounded a large audience with his new show, Heavy Mental (not an easy task with […]
James Randi, Still Amazing
James Randi was back on my show today to update my audience on some of the things we talked about this weekend at The Amazing Meeting, including revising his Million Dollar Psychic Challenge to make it easier to administer and weed out the claimants who can’t even explain what their paranormal ability is supposed to […]
Randi & Robert vs. Sylvia
I’m just back from “The Amazing Meeting” in Las Vegas, a fantastic annual event that I’ve attended many times. This year, much of the buzz in the room (aside from speakers like Adam Savage of “Mythbusters,” Christopher Hitchens, Julia Sweeney, Phil Plait, Jamy Ian Swiss, Penn & Teller, and Trey Parker and Matt Stone of […]
Moon-Less Millionaire
A contestant on the French version of “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire” is given this simple question: “Which of these orbits around the Earth: the Moon, the Sun, Mars or Venus?” The guy is stumped, apparently not aware of the simplest facts in our universe — but it gets even worse when he asks […]