Each month we publish a themed Skeptical Crossword, a set of seven Picture Puzzles, a set of twenty Mixed Bag Questions (Trivia / General Knowledge) and a set of Logic & Maths Puzzles. They can be found, blog-style, at the top of the Puzzles Page.
There hundreds of earlier published puzzles. They can be found here:
The Skeptical Crossword for August 2018 is themed to Religious Ideas.
96 August 2018 Crossword Religious Ideas
Our Skeptical crosswords generally have two sets of clues, one “standard” and the other “cryptic”. These monthly crosswords are all available in archive, are all based on themes related to Skepticism, and go back to 2010.
Other crosswords, wordsearches and cryptograms specifically for classroom use are available here: https://skeptics.cafe/useful-info/
Our Mixed Bag Questions have a format of twenty trivia-type questions, (ten “easy”and ten “harder”), with answers supplied.
08 August 2018 Mixed bag questions
All of our previous sets of Mixed Bag Questions are available in archive.
Our Logic & Maths Puzzles consist of ten questions of varying levels of difficulty. Solutions are supplied.
Logic and Maths Puzzles 73 August 2018
There are now over seventy such puzzles available in archive
A new set of Picture Puzzles can be found each month at the top of the Puzzles Page.
Enjoy!
https://skeptics.cafe/puzzles/puzzles-archives/
After gaining his medical degree in 2008, Vyom Sharma completed specialist training and currently works in Melbourne as a General Practitioner. However alongside his clinical work, he has carved out a career in show business.
As a magician and mentalist, he has performed live stage shows at the Sydney Opera House, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, and was a grand finalist on Australia’s Got Talent.
His knowledge of medicine, combined with his experiences with the psychology of deception have afforded him a rare insight into the human experience of truth and persuasion. He explores the neuroscience of deception and beliefs as a regular Guest Lecturer at Monash University’s school of biological sciences.
He has debunked pseudoscientific therapies in the media, including Fairfax newspapers, Triple R radio and medical trade magazines.
Vyom Sharma will be our featured speaker at next Skeptics Café (Monday August 20)
He will also appear at Australian Skeptics Annual Convention in Sydney over the weekend of October 13 & 14
Fresh Picture Puzzles are at the top of the Puzzles Page.
Mixed Bag Questions, Skeptical Crosswords and Logic & Maths Puzzles now come in pdf form and can be reached from here or from the Puzzles Page.
For July:
07 July 2018 Mixed bag questions
95 July 2018 Crossword Famous Scientists
Logic and Maths Puzzles 72 July 2018
The PDF format requires the Adobe Reader for viewing. The Adobe Reader is free software and may be obtained at this website: http://get.adobe.com/reader/
Enjoy!
The usual seven new monthly Picture Puzzles are at the top of the Puzzles Page, Our Mixed Bag Questions, Skeptical Crosswords and Logic & Maths Puzzles now come in pdf form and can be reached from here or from the Puzzles Page
For June:
06 June 2018 Mixed bag questions
94 June 2018 Crossword Philosophers
Logic and Maths Puzzles 71 June 2018
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Enjoy!
We have much pleasure in announcing Sharon Hill as our June Skeptics Café speaker. Sharon is a Pennsylvanian geologist who researches the paranormal, pseudoscience, and anomalous natural phenomena.
As well as being a prolific columnist and speaker she is a co-founder of
and hosts the podcast 15 Credibility Street.
She is the author of Scientifical Americans: The Culture of Amateur Paranormal Researchers.
Skeptics Café is a regular monthly event and members of the public are welcome.
Monday June 18, The Clyde Hotel Carlton, 8pm (or join us for a meal from 6 pm)
We’re pleased to have been visited by Dr Pauli Ohukainen from Finland. He’s a cardiovascular research scientist from Finland working in Melbourne (Baker Institute) until June 1st. He’s also an avid skeptical activist with his own blog in Finnish with 7000 followers on Facebook, (which is not too bad in a small country of 5M), and he’s also active on Twitter, which is his international forum: https://twitter.com/POhukainen. He was keen to meet some skeptics while in Melbourne, and took “selfies” at May Skeptics Café with two of our distinguished members, Francesca Folk-Scolaro (L) and Elida Radig (R).
1. laminate
2. poppycock
3. dumbstruck
4. spellbound
5. flibbertigibbet
6. judicious
7. embolism