For this month’s skeptical crossword puzzle, we return to a favourite theme of Greek & Roman Mythology, together with the usual Picture Puzzles, Mixed Bag Questions and Logic & Maths Puzzles. They’re all at the top of the PUZZLES PAGE. Scroll down for earlier recent monthly puzzles, or use the ARCHIVE links at the bottom of the page to access puzzles going back to 2010.
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June’s Puzzles are at the top of the PUZZLES PAGE, where you’ll find seven new rebus-type Picture Puzzles, followed by links to twenty Mixed Bag (Triva / General Knowledge); a Crossword puzzle, based on Frauds and Scams.; and a set of ten Logic & Maths Puzzles, with worked solutions provided.
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Puzzles for the month of May 2022 are at the top of the PUZZLES PAGE.
The Crossword puzzle is themed towards General Skeptical Issues.
Scroll down the puzzles page to find previous puzzles from May 2021. For earlier puzzles go to the archives links at the bottom of the PUZZLES PAGE..
Picture Puzzles, Mixed Bag questions, Logic & Maths Questions and Skeptical Crossword for the month of March 2022 have pride of place at the top of the PUZZLES PAGE.
The Crossword puzzle delves into Cryptids and Mythical Creatures (acknowledging that one person’s cryptid IS another person’s mythical creature).
Scroll down the puzzles page to find all previous puzzles from May 2021. Earlier puzzles going back to 2010 are available from the archives links at the bottom of the PUZZLES PAGE..
Skeptics, Rationalists, Humanists and other like-minded people world-wide have gravitated towards February 12 as an annual opportunity to celebrate the things that unite us. This year, that date marks Charles Darwin’s 213th birthday.
We invite you to visit Darwin-related material already on this website:
Charles Darwin Articles
“About Charles Darwin”
https://skeptics.cafe/2007/11/27/about-charles-darwin/
Darwin – A Great Scientist by Rosslyn Ives https://skeptics.cafe/events/darwin-a-great-scientist/
Darwin Day 2022 – Musings on the Voyage https://skeptics.cafe/2022/02/10/darwin-day-2022-musings-on-the-voyage/
For Schools: – The Darwin Day Suite of Classroom Exercises
https://skeptics.cafe/2019/01/22/for-schools-darwin-day-february-12-2/
Charles Darwin Crosswords
by Ken Greatorex
As a former teacher of evolutionary biology and subsequent enthusiastic promoter of Darwin Day, it is perhaps surprising that actually reading On the Origin of Species only recently made my bucket list. View More Darwin Day 2022 – Musings on The Voyage
February’s Picture Puzzles, Mixed Bag questions, Logic & Maths Questions and Skeptical Crossword are at the top of the PUZZLES PAGE.
The Crossword is fairly modest this month, with allusions to Science vs Pseudoscience.
Scroll down the puzzles page to find all previous puzzles from May 2001. Earlier puzzles going back to 2010 are available from the archives links at the bottom of the PUZZLES PAGE..
We kick off the new year with the usual mix of Picture Puzzles, Mixed Bag questions, Logic & Maths questions and a Skeptical Crossword with Astrology as its theme. They’re at the top of the PUZZLES PAGE.
Lower down the puzzles page you’ll find all 2001 puzzles from May. Earlier puzzles going back to 2010 are available from the archives links at the bottom of the Puzzles page.
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Belgian authors, Patrick Vermeren (56) and Bart Van de Ven (37) have won an action in the Appeals Court in Belgium. “Business Coach” Carl Van de Velde had previously unsuccessfully sued them for defamation in the Court of First Instance, but chose to appeal. At that stage the two author’s legal costs already stood at about A$85,000.
The Belgium-based Skeptical society SKEPP stepped in to support the authors and to seek international support for their on-going legal battles.
Patrick and Bart had written an article for SKEPP’s magazine about two highly successful companies that used dubious theories such as NLP (Neurolinguistic Programming) and characterization of people based on their skull (phrenology) and physiognomy (interpretation of outward appearance, in this case of face and hair). One of the companies was the Carl Van de Velde Training Institute. The authors had criticized the content of its pseudo-scientific master classes as well as the marketing strategies it used to attract participants.
Paul De Belder, President of SKEPP writes: “It has taken quite some time but today the Appeals Court in Belgium judged that free speech and well-founded criticism are more important than the perceived wrongs of the commercial organization being criticized.”
Although additional legal defence costs of over A$100,000 have been generated by the Appeal process, SKEPP considers that its own “war chest” together with awarded costs and international support of over A$70,000 should enable it to cover its costs.
Vic Skeptics is proud to have contributed and to have publicised the issue locally. Apparently much of the money raised internationally by SKEPP’s fundraiser came anonymously via PayPal and bank transfer from small organisations and individuals in Europe, the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
The last word goes to Paul De Belder:
“Thank you so much for your support. If ever one of your organizations gets in trouble, we will stand by you.”
A new crop of Picture Puzzles, Mixed Bag questions), themed Crossword and Logic & Maths questions and a Skeptical Crossword are at the top of the PUZZLES PAGE.
This month’s Crossword is appropriately themed “Holidays and Festivals”
Scrolling down the puzzles page will get you all this year’s puzzles since May. Earlier puzzles going back to 2010 are available from the archives links at the bottom of the Puzzles page.
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