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Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Universe: Stephen Wolfram: A New Kind of Science – or a Not-So-New Kind of Computer Program?
by David Naiditch

‘Twas Brillig…: Homeopathy, the French, Psychic Dreams, Testing Astrology & Numerology
by James Randi

Demon Haunted Times: Southern Bigfoot Convention
Draws Criticism
by Brandon Muller
Great Balls of Mystery!: Is the slow rotation of this massive granite ball paranormal or normal?
by Reza Saberi

Pious Fantasies: A review of Lost Discoveries: The Ancient Roots of Modern Science — from the Babylonians to the Maya, by Dick Teresi
reviewed by Norman Levitt
The Ghost of God: A review of The Ghost in the Universe: God in Light of Modern Science, by Taner Edisn reviewed by Ronald Ebert
From Scripture to Space Oddity: A review of Bible Code II: The Countdown , by Michael Drosnin
reviewed by Tim Callahan
Deus ex Machinas, Shamanism, and Gonzo Science for the Digiterati: A review of Rational Mysticism: Dispatches from the Border Between Science and Spirituality, by John Horgan. reviewed by Thomas Patton

: Roswell Holiday; Silver Fleece Awards; Steves Endorse Evolution
Dead Silence: Attending A “Live”
John Edward Seminar
by Brady J. Phelps, Elizabeth C. Wogen, and Scott C. Pedersen
What’s the Harm?: When Psychic Mediums
Serve as Grief Counselors
by Russel P. Freedman
Psychic Dodge Ball: The Sylvia Browne Chronology
by Russel P. Freedman

Science & the Media:
Can the Media Help Science?: by Henry N. Pollack
Mind Over Media: How the News Legitimized the Paranormal and Why it Matters by Shari Waxman

Mount Everest & the Savage Yeti! written and illustrated by Daniel Loxton: The English In Nepal; Naming Everest; The First Tracks!; What’s In a Name; The 1933 Flyover; A Nazi versus the Yeti; The Shipton Prints; Footprint Science; Legacy at the Top of the World; The Search for the Yeti; Scalps & Relics; The Hillary Expedition; International Yeti; The Quest of Reinhold Messner; Is the Mystery Solved?; Face off with a Grizzly
The Call of the Yeti: by Bob Friedhoffer

Can Science Explain the Jesus Miracle?: Science,the Resurrection, and the Ludicrous Leap; Persinger’s Passover Plot; Persinger’s Swoon Theory; Resurrection Poppycock; Skeptical of Persinger’s Skepticism; Persinger Responds to Tobin Crenshaw, Jeremy Genovese, Bradley Bowen, Jerry Kahn, and John Caporale
Time Travel Section: Time Traveling with Oedipus Rex; Skeptical of the Time Travel Skeptics; Michael Shermer’s “The Chronology Projector Conjecture;” Ted Dace’s “Days of the Future Past;” Andrew Bernardin’s “Einstein, Batman and the Surfer”
Letters: Rupert is Wrong; Rupert is Right; More “Open Mind” Quotes; Thought, Intuition, and Relativity; Sharpening Ockham’s Razor
How I Reluctantly Became a Skeptic: by Susan Kawa