New Picture Puzzles, “Mixed Bag” Questions, Skeptical Crossword Puzzle and Logic & Maths Problems have been placed at the top of the PUZZLES PAGE.
The Crossword Puzzle this month returns to the theme of General Skeptical Issues.
Previous puzzles going back to May 2021 may be accessed by scrolling down through the puzzles page. Hundred of earlier puzzles are available from the archives links at the bottom of the Puzzles page.
Enjoy!
We’ve uploaded the now-traditional monthly Picture Puzzles, “Mixed Bag” Questions, themed Skeptical Crossword Puzzle and Logic & Maths Problems to the PUZZLES PAGE.
The Crossword Puzzle this month is about Alternative Medicine. It’s a big one, running to six pages of .pdf file which you will have to print off and complete using the primitive technology of a pen or pencil.
Previous puzzles going back to 2010 may be accessed by scrolling down the puzzles page or using the archive at the bottom of the page, now expanded to include puzzles to April 2021.
Enjoy!
July’s Skeptical Crossword Puzzle dabbles in Cults and Sects.
Then there are the usual Picture Puzzles, “Mixed Bag” Questions (Trivia and General Knowledge); and Logic & Maths Puzzles.
All previous puzzles are easily found by scrolling down the puzzles page or accessing the archive at the bottom of the page, now expanded to include puzzles to April 2021.
All on the PUZZLES PAGE.
Enjoy!
The 2021 Australian Skeptics Annual National Convention – Skepticon for short – will be held this year on November 20-21. As a first, it will be held simultaneously by Aust Skeptics from Sydney, Australia; the NZ Skeptics from Wellington, New Zealand; plus online participation from everywhere else. There will be face-to-face presentations in Sydney and Wellington, the Sydney event being held at the University of Technology and the Wellington event to be announced.
This year attendees will be able to participate in a truly international event, mixing with those speakers who will be physically present in one of the two main venues (COVID willing, of course), and interact with speakers in other cities and countries .
Details of the speakers and ticket prices will be available soon.
June’s Skeptical Crossword Puzzle is (almost) all about Greek and Roman Mythology.
For our seven Picture Puzzles this month we’re trying a slightly larger format. There are twenty new “Mixed Bag” Questions (Trivia and General Knowledge); and June’s Logic & Maths Puzzles have the usual format of ten questions of various types and degrees of difficulty. These sets include not just the answers but also a step-by-step worked solution for each question.
All previous puzzles are easily found by scrolling down the puzzles page or accessing the archive at the bottom of the page, now expanded to include puzzles to April 2021.
All on the PUZZLES PAGE.
Enjoy!
May’s Skeptical Crossword Puzzle has “Strange Notions” as its theme.
We’re back to seven Picture Puzzles this month, and twenty “Mixed Bag” Questions (Trivia and General Knowledge).
Logic & Maths Puzzles for the month of May 2021 follows the usual format of ten questions of various types and degrees of difficulty. These sets include not just the answers but also a step-by-step worked solution for each question. All previous L&Ms are easily found by scrolling down the puzzles page or accessing the archive at the bottom of the page.
All on the PUZZLES PAGE.
NOTE: Puzzles from January 2020 to April 2021 have been used to create a new archive: PUZZLES ARCHIVE 9.
This archive includes both the usual monthly puzzles sets for that period, plus the special “lockdown” sets posted during 2020.
There are eight new Picture Puzzles this month.
There are twenty more “Mixed Bag” Questions (Trivia and General Knowledge); first ten “Easy”, second ten “Hard”.
The Skeptical Crossword Puzzle is a little pot-boiler based on a theme of “Religious Ideas“.
Our Logic & Maths Puzzles is the 105th such set. These sets now include not just the answers but also a step-by-step worked solution for each of the ten questions, enhancing their educational value. All previous L&Ms are easily found by scrolling down the puzzles page or accessing the archive at the bottom of the page.
All on the PUZZLES PAGE.
Enjoy!
Our Puzzles for March 2021 kick off with nine Picture Puzzles (rather than the usual seven).
Then scroll down to the “Mixed Bag” Questions (Trivia and General Knowledge);
and a Skeptical Crossword Puzzle which revisits Financial Fraud.
A set of ten Logic & Maths Puzzles concludes the batch for this month.
All on the PUZZLES PAGE.
Enjoy!
It’s now too late to announce that the annual Melbourne Darwin Day picnic has been cancelled due to the Victorian government’s decision to impose a five-day lock-down to counter a small but worrying spike in Covid-19 infections.
Bummer. It’s a high point in our social calendar, and many of us were looking forward to it and planning to attend.
So obviously, all that remains is:
(a) to CONGRATULATE the Victorian government in following the Science. Darwin would have been proud.
(b) to do a bit of value-adding to our virtual Darwin Day.
Here’s a presentation about Charles Darwin by Tina Hanigan at Skepticon 2019.
Here is an hour’s worth of interviews recorded by Adam Ford of attendees at a recent Darwin Day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IPNeEp_13k