Puzzles for June 2020
New Puzzles for June are on the PUZZLES PAGE.
Last month we gave you a link to puzzles and diversions of various kinds (not specifically Skeptic-related).
Here are some more:
Science Talent Search – 2020 Style
The Science Talent Search of the Science Teachers Association of Victoria will continue to run in 2020, celebrating its 69th consecutive year of operation in 2020. Planning around The Covid – 19 situation
requires that the usual Judging Day will not proceed; instead ALL student projects will be electronically submitted and judged remotely this year.
The Science Talent Search has been enthusiastically supported by The Australian Skeptics for many years now.
Here are some letters of thanks that we received from students whose cash bursaries we funded last year.
Puzzles for May 2020
May’s usual Picture Puzzles, Mixed Bag Questions, Crossword Puzzle and Logic & Maths Questions are at the top of the PUZZLES PAGE .
This month’s crossword is about General Skeptical Issues.
In addition, here are twenty sets of puzzles and diversions of various kinds (not specifically Skeptic-related) which you might find helpful if you are stuck at home.
ATTENTION! Skeptics Café via Zoom
We are having our first virtual Skeptics Cafe TONIGHT (Monday 20th April) at 7.30.
From Vic Skeptics President
Hi everyone,
Tonight Clem Stanyon will be giving us a great talk about his work in the biotech industry and the GMO crops that he is involved in producing.
We will be trialling this event on zoom.us. You don’t need to create an account, you should be able to follow the link below.
Cheers,
Chris
Patents and Portents: In Insider View on the Production of GMOs
Born to English migrants from the war generation, English teachers both, I have lived and worked in 5 cities in 3 countries on 3 continents: Perth and Melbourne here in Australia, Detroit and Seattle in the US, and Lyon in France, in which work I have been consistently employed to create DNA constructs for making genetically modified organisms. I currently work in the Victorian government agricultural sector, for the first time making GMOs that are not for research purposes only, but for commercial purposes, working mainly on constructs for canola and wheat.
Clem’s talk starts at 7:30pm sharp.
We encourage questions to be posted on the Q&A chat.
Follow the zoom link:
https://unimelb.zoom.us/j/95223630701
Or join by phone:
Dial (Australia): +61 3 7018 2005 or +61 2 8015 6011
From The Vault
Videos produced with, for or by Vic Skeptics
2009
The Bed of Nails – Faith or Physics? 1 min 15 s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXj24tYimOI
2011
Great Ocean Road Skeptics – 10:23 Homeopathy Challenge Bells Beach Australia 2011 3 min 55 s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhDA07jYncU
10:23 Campaign Against Homeopathy – Melbourne, Australia 2011 4 min 53 s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvgRMcfo0Yk View More From The Vault
Puzzles for April 2020
New Picture Puzzles, Mixed Bag Questions, Crossword Puzzle and Logic & Maths Questions have been placed, blog-style, at the top of the PUZZLES PAGE .
This month’s crossword is about Internet Scams, and as Scamming is a crossword theme we frequently visit, links to several earlier Crosswords about scams, frauds and hoaxes are supplied.
Dont forget, we’ve got nearly ten years worth of puzzles in our archive.
https://skeptics.cafe/puzzles/puzzles-archives/
Enjoy!
“Skeptics Got Talent”
One of the great spin-offs of hosting a Skeptics Convention is that it provides an opportunity to showcase the talents of “local” presenters and performers to a wider audience. View More “Skeptics Got Talent”
Picture Puzzles July 2020 – Answers
- Ring-Around-a-Rosie
- Able Seamen
- Piano tuner
- Detailed
- (a) bluebell
(b) anemone
(c) buttercup
(d) phlox
(e) rose
(f) hydrangea
Picture Puzzles June 2020 – Answers
- politics
- arcane
- bandy
- terminate
- seasonal
- Day In and Day Out
- beseech
Picture Puzzles May 2020 – Answers
- setback
- Noah (or Banner)
- The Purple Rose of Cairo
- Formal occasion
- inclusive
- Cauliflower
- plagiarise