November 2016 Picture Puzzles – Answers
1. Freudian slip
2. hypotenuse
3. feminism
4. upset OR setup
5. mixed nuts
6. mortgages
7. poison ivy
October 2016 Picture Puzzles – Answers
1. From sunup to sundown
2. He’s off his face
3. delivery
4. recovery
5. appendix
6. gravy
7. nervous
September 2016 Picture Puzzles – Answers
1. cyclones
2. You are out of your mind
3. useless information
4. shop on line
5. What’s up Doc?
6. Fahrenheit 451
7. forensic
August 2016 Picture Puzzles – Answers
1. silo
2. happy hour
3. double or nothing
4. imposing OR impart
5. tokenism
6. high esteem
7. banjo
July 2016 Puzzles
July’s Picture Puzzles, “Mixed Bag” Questions and a new word puzzle called AddScrabble are at the top of the PUZZLES PAGE
July 2016 Skeptical Crossword features Famous Skeptics.
July 2016 Logic & Maths Problems is the 48th set in the series. If you’d like to try the other 47, they start in August 2012 – see PUZZLES ARCHIVE 3;
Enjoy!
July 2016 Picture Puzzles – Answers
1. long underwear
2. explain
3. wiring
4. encircle
5. back to back wins
6. furrows
7. belittle
2016 Australian Skeptics Convention – Latest
AUSTRALIAN SKEPTICS NATIONAL CONVENTION 2016
is at The Carrillo Gantner Theatre, Sidney Myer Asia Centre, University of Melbourne from 25-27 November,
https://maps.unimelb.edu.au/parkville/building/158/carrillo_gantner
with the annual Dinner at
The Leopard Lodge, Melbourne Zoo on Saturday evening 26 November.
Early-bird ticket sales will cease on June 30. View More 2016 Australian Skeptics Convention – Latest
July 2016 Adscrabble Answers
a. hamster
b. markets
c. ramjets
d. stammer
e. maestro
f. both armrest and smarter
A Skeptic’s Guide to Dowsing
This article first appeared as a Vic Skeptics discussion pamphlet and again here in 2010.
The full range of our discussion pamphlets can be downloaded from our USEFUL INFO page.
Dowsing, (also known as Divining) is widely practised in Australia. Dowsers claim the ability to detect useful substances in the ground using processes which are not able to be explained by current scientific principles.
The most frequently dowsed substance in drought-prone Australia is water. Many Australians can claim a friend or relative who is a water-diviner.
Australian Skeptics have long been interested in dowsing. It clearly lies within the range of paranormal activities which come under scrutiny. Australian Skeptics offer a sum of money, (currently $100,000) to anyone who can demonstrate paranormal ability of any kind. Our only stipulation is that candidates must pass a proper scientific test, the protocols of which have been agreed upon by all parties before the test commences. Most acceptors of this challenge have been water-diviners; probably because they are genuine people who believe in their abilities, and are as interested in being tested as we are to test them.