February 2012 Crossword Solution
Month: January 2012
February 2012 Picture Puzzles Answers
1. Toothpick
2. Loitering Within Tent
3. Star Crossed Lovers
4. Overbearing
5. Room for one more
6. A Laugh A Minute
7. Split Second Timing
Mixed Bag February 2012 Answers
1. a. Kelsey Grammer / Cheers (note: the question says which show INTRODUCED the character. “Frasier” is a spin-off from Cheers, in which the character was a regular)
b. Bill Cosby / The Bill Cosby Show
c. Alan Alda / M*A*S*H
2. a. 9 Innings in a Baseball Game
b. 40 Thieves of Ali Baba
c. 90 Degrees in a Right Angle
d. 18 Holes on a Golf Course
e. 3 Sides on a Triangle
3. Maroubra, Sydney
4. Safety Dance
5. Geoff Hunt
6. Bolivia
7. Nelson
8. Chicago
9. 1994
10. Casca
Psychic Challenge 2012
Our post on Psychic Predictions for 2011 proved to be very popular, so we’re doing it again for 2012!
This time, instead of simply looking at the results of one psychic, we’re going to pit a self-identified psychic against a group of self-identified skeptics, and see who has the better result!
You can read more, and check out all the predictions here.
Darwin Day Barbecue 2012
You are invited to join us in celebrating Charles Darwin’s birthday with a Barbeque on Sunday, 12th February 2012 from about noon till ??? on the banks of the Yarra at Alexandra Avenue Melbourne.
Melways, 2G D11 Just west from the Morell Bridge and Anderson Street. Next to the Botanic Gardens.
All Welcome
Free BBQ facilities available
BYO food and drinks.
Since the early 1990s, Darwin Day has been celebrated around the world including in Melbourne. Every year we’ve said “this year’s celebrations will be the biggest party so far”, and we’ve been pretty much right. Come along and enjoy a summer BBQ by the Yarra.
TEACHERS: for our suite of Darwin Day Classroom Exercises, go here: http://skeptics.cafe/for-sale/stuff-for-teachers-education-resources/darwin-day-february-12-classroom-suite-of-exercises/
For a brief article about Charles Darwin, go here: http://skeptics.cafe/2007/11/27/about-charles-darwin/
2011 Psychic Predictions … Revisited
Early in 2011 we examined the Psychic predictions of Mr. John Gold, one of Australia’s most respected psychics.
Mr Gold was notable for making some quite specific predictions for the year ahead, which would have been sensational had they panned out.
Usually psychics will throw out a bunch of generic and non-specific “predictions” which can easily be retrofitted to reality later … but not Mr Gold. He went out on a series of impressive limbs with specific events and specific times.
If even half of those predictions had come true, we might have had a serious contender for the Australian Skeptics’ $100,000 challenge.
We are now one year down the track, and it’s definitely worth our time to examine the predictions and see how Mr. Gold did.
Results below the fold.