August 2012 Crossword – Solution
Gippsland Skeptics In the Pub – update
Gippsland Skeptics In the Pub now has two meetings a month, one in Sale and one in Morwell.
The Sale meetings happen on the Fourth Friday of the month at Relish At the Gallery http://www.menumate.com.au/relish-at-the-gallery from 6.30 pm.
The Morwell Venue is The Top Pub (Morwell Hotel) http://www.morwellhotel.com.au/ and meetings are on the Second Friday of each month, also from 6.30 pm.
Just turn up and ask for The Skeptics!
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Psychic Challenge 2012 – Update!
We’re halfway through the year, so it’s a good time to check in on the Psychic Challenge 2012, and see how everyone’s predictions are panning out.
The Psychic Challenge page has been updated with some commentary and links.
We’ve had a few hits, a few misses, and more than a few wait-and-sees.
Roughly speaking, the skeptics are slightly in the lead. But it’s still anyone’s game.
July Puzzles
Picture Puzzles and Mixed Bag Puzzles for July 2012 have been added to our Puzzle Page.
July’s Skeptical Crossword has the theme of Logical Fallacies and can be found HERE.
July 2012 Picture Puzzles – Answers
1. Side-Splitting Laughter
2. Free For All
3. Who’s In Charge?
4. Mixed herbs
5. Last minute rush
6. To – do list
7. Keep in touch
“Mixed Bag” Questions July 2012 – Answers
1. Ars Gratia Artis – Art For Art’s Sake
2. The Taming of the Shrew- Katharina; Julius Caesar – Calpurnia; The Tempest – Prospero; Othello – Iago
3. a. Enterprise; b. Rouseabout; c. Rudiments
4. Brazil
5. False; it’s just offshore of Antarctica, South of Tasmania
6. Margaret Court (1970)
7. Greek
8. Jamboree
9. Seaquest DSV
10. Scrambled Eggs
Happenings – June 2012
by Ken Greatorex
Nuns Fight Back! In last month’s Happenings, we reported on an attempt by The Vatican to rein in America’s fifty thousand nuns. Here’s the latest. Meanwhile, Australia’s last openly progressive Catholic bishop, Canberra’s Pat Power resigned, citing the Vatican’s inability to listen, clergy sex abuse and the shortage of priests as the biggest issues facing the church.
In Australia, a supreme court judge has forced Jehova’s Witness parents to allow their four-year-old daughter to receive a blood transfusion, without which she had a life expectancy of a few weeks. View More Happenings – June 2012
Australian Skeptics 2012 Convention
Bookings are now open
Information and bookings HERE