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‘Twas Brillig…: An Adventure in Asia, or, How a Cultural Gap Can Lead to Total Misunderstanding by James Randi
The Clicker Culture: How that Handy Little Gadget has Changed the Evening News by Teller
Teller Talks About Ghosts
The Day I Met the Wizard: Oz Comes to Kansas written and illustrated by Eric Nauert
“First of All, Do No Harm”: A Recovered Memory Therapist Recants — An Interview With Robin Newsome by Mark Pendergrast
Darwin’s Dangerous Disciple: An Interview with Richard Dawkins by Frank Miele
Love Thy Neighbor: The Evolution of In-Group Morality by John Hartung
The Question All Skeptics are Asking: Can a Cat Be Simultaneously
Alive and Dead? by Bernard Leikind

: Alien Autopsy Film; Skeptics on Oprah; Milk Miracle Makes Masses Mental; More Skeptical Award Winners; Scientology Loses Judgement in Internet Case; In Search of Feynman’s Van; Space Alien Gets 20 Years; “Alien” Professor Not Censured by Harvard; Skeptics Society Survey; Want to End Entropy? — Join the Extropians!

Bell Curve Letters: The Bell Curve Tolls For Round Three; J. Philippe Rushton Responds; The Pioneer Fund Replies; It's Always Good to Know Who's Buying the Drinks; Here's to the Pioneers!; Skeptic Bias?; Richard Lynn Replies; Halpern Replies to Lynn; On Halpern and Heritability; Halpern Replies to Lilienfeld; The Flaw in Sarich’s Ointment; What Is In a Definition?; Sarich Replies; Bell Curve Blaze a Little Fire; Revisionist Has A Somewhat Different Dream
Other Forum Letters: A New Age Battlefield Souvenir; Pseudoscience Kills; Schmoozing With Psychic Friends; Light Bulb Baby Food; Ramtha Speaks English?; Singapore Needs Skeptics; Born Skeptical; Hal Lindsey Not Representative; Loch Ness Photo Proof; Good Science and Bad; Duesberg Deserves a Hearing; AIDS Absolutes; Kudos to Harris; Conspiratorial Thinking Caused by Serotonin?; Revisionism Revised

Is There Really a Cosmological Crisis?: If the Stars are Older than the Universe Then We Have a Serious Problem
by Rick Shaffer
Velikovsky’s Believe it or Not: Some Basic Claims of Velikovsky
written and illustrated by Pat Linse
Velikovsky Still in Collision: by Ev Cochrane
An Antidote to Velikovskian Delusions: by Leroy Ellenberger
Velikovsky’s Place in the History of Science: A Lesson on the Strengths and Limitations of Science
by Henry H. Bauer
Can Science Prove God?: Frank Tipler’s The Physics of Immortality is the Latest in a Long Line of Attempts to Unite Science and Religion
by Bernard Leikind
A Cosmological Dialogue: Caltech Cosmologist Kip Thorne Discusses the Physics of Immortality with Tulane Cosmologist Frank Tipler
Hope Springs Eternal: Dr. Tipler Meets Dr. Pangloss
by Michael Shermer
Physics’ Balls & Schrödinger’s Kittens: Just Because our Treasured Theories of the Sub-Atomic World Work Does Not Necessarily Mean they are Revealing the Ultimate Truth About What Goes on Inside Atoms
by John Gribbin

Books on Physics & Cosmology Discussed in the Special Section on Cosmology: Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein’s Outrageous Legacy, by Kip S. Thorne; God and the Astronomers, new and expanded edition by Robert Jastrow; The Physics of Immortality: Modern Cosmology, God, and the Resurrection of the Dead, by Frank J. Tipler; The Big Bang Never Happened: A Startling Refutation of the Dominant Theory of the Origin of the Universe, by Eric J. Lerner; The Faith of a Physicist: Reflections of a Bottom-Up Thinker, by John Polkinghorne
Additional Books on Physics & Cosmology: Encyclopedia of Cosmology: Historical, Philosophical, and Scientific Foundations of Modern Cosmology, edited by Norriss S. Hetherington; In The Beginning: The Birth of the Living Universe, by John Gribbin; The Physics of Star Trek, by Lawrence M. Krauss & foreword by Stephen Hawking; Dark Matter, Missing Planets, & New Comets: Paradoxes Resolved, Origins Illuminated, by Tom Van Flandern
Books of General Skeptical Interest: Urantia: The Great Cult Mystery by Martin Gardner; Hitler and the Occult, by Ken Anderson; Morality In Our Age, An Audio Cassettes Series from Knowledge Products, narrated by Cliff Robertson and Robert Guillaume; A Celebration of Humanism and Freethought, by David Allen Williams; Artful Science: Enlightenment Entertainment and the Eclipse of Visual Education, by Barbara Maria Stafford