Our August 2017 Skeptical Crossword is about Telling the Future.
or
84 Aug 2017 Crossword (Telling the future) [pdf version].
Our
AUGUST 2017 LOGIC & MATHS PROBLEMS [HTML version]
Logic and Maths Puzzles 61 August 2017 [pdf version] is the 61st such monthly set of ten puzzles with solutions that we’ve published.
Seven new Picture Puzzles and twenty “Mixed Bag” trivia / general knowledge questions are at the top of the Puzzles Page
Enjoy!
There’s a General Skeptical Issues Crossword Puzzle this month, or
[pdf version]
a new set of Logic & Maths Problems or [pdf version]
Picture Puzzles and “Mixed Bag” questions are as usual at the top of the Puzzles Page
Enjoy!
by William P. Hall
william-hall@bigpond.com
http://www.orgs-evolution-knowledge.net
( based on a presentation at Vic Skeptics Café, 19 June 2017 at the Clyde Hotel, Carlton, Vic)
Today we are living in a world of Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and blogs where anyone (even President Trump) can instantly post their ideas to the world for essentially no cost. We are also living in dangerous times where exploding human populations and technologies are affecting the planet’s climate and natural resources where extreme concentrations of wealth and power, warfare, epidemics, climate extremes, ecological collapses and famine threaten humanity’s survival. Unsurprisingly there are often conflicts between vested interests seeking wealth, power and control versus those concerned with the futures of our descendents and of humanity in general. Both are heavy users of the new media. View More Staying Rational in a World of Tweets, Fake News, Alternative Facts and Sound Bites
Prominent Vic Skeptic Dr Ken Harvey has been awarded the AM (Member of the Order of Australia) in the 2017 Queen’s Birthday Honours List.
Read all about it HERE
More on Dr Ken Harvey
https://skeptics.cafe/2015/09/13/dr-ken-harvey-on-the-radio-chiropractic-advertising/
https://skeptics.cafe/videos/dr-ken-harvey-chiropractors-abcrn-10915/
https://skeptics.cafe/2012/04/02/dr-ken-harvey-awarded-choice-consumer-champion/
https://skeptics.cafe/2012/03/06/tga-dr-ken-harvey-and-sensaslim-news/
https://skeptics.cafe/2011/06/11/the-sensaslim-libel-action-against-dr-ken-harvey-how-did-it-happen/
https://skeptics.cafe/2010/06/26/dr-ken-harvey/
We are saddened to report that Eric Fiesley died earlier this month, several weeks after a road accident in Mildura.
A retired TAFE teacher, Eric was well-known to the Skeptical community, as a good friend and as contributor to and administrator of on-line Skeptical and social chat groups, and an enthusiastic supporter of campaigns. We also remember his devotion to caring for his sick wife Pam over many years.
Eric played euphonium with the Mildura and District Brass Band. He was also an administrator of both the Ulysses Social Club (for motorcyclists over the age of 40) , and the Mildura Working Man’s Club.
He will be missed.
1. A small hotel or boarding house
2. Accept Morris Mini OR Mini Cooper
3. Bugsy
4. Ladybird/ladybug
5. To Kill a Mockingbird
6. Two (Freshwater and Saltwater)
7. Dame Judy Dench
8. The Goon Show
9. Rolls Royce Merlin
10. 10CC
HARDER:
11. Had its genome (DNA) mapped
12. Canoe / Kayak
13. Kenneth Williams
14. The Wise Men visiting the baby Jesus
15. D. They hanged him anyway
16. Burning
17. Sweden
18. Whitney Houston
19. Taff
20. Clouds
1. Two hours (108 minutes)
2. Moonies
3. Perspective
4. Sting a.k.a. Gordon Sumner
5. Over eyes, bridge of nose, etc (they are eyeglasses that sit on your nose)
6. False. He was actually once a criminal on the FBI Ten Most Wanted List.
7. Beauty and the Beast
8. Halley’s Comet
9. Marni Nixon
10. 50%
HARDER:
11. 1937
12. Timor Sea
13. Pride
14. Ogee
15. Toni Collette. The film was Spotswood
16. Little cords
17. Portmanteau words: (Two or more previously existing words run together)
18. Dusty Springfield
19. Guinea-Bissau, Nauru, Peru, Tuvalu, Palau, Vanuatu
20. Regina
1. Eat them (little cakes)
2. They go out in the midday sun
3. Bob Fosse
4. The Righteous Brothers
5. Glenn Close
6. Motor home, motorised caravan etc.
7. Brother Cadfael
8. London
9. A butt (barrel) of wine
10. Ripley
HARDER:
11. Gerald Ford
12. 1970s
13. Walk
14. 5 (Diana, Randolph, Sarah, Marigold, Mary)
15. 3
16. Lightning
17. 200
18. Tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, icosahedron
19. Panama
20. John Paul I
