- Date – November 29th 2011
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Skeptic History Notes
- New age author & speaker James Arthur Ray was born November 22, 1957.
- Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species” was published November 24, 1859.
- The Piltdown Man fossil was debunked in a November 21, 1953 article in the London Times.
- The Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Epperson v. Arkansas on November 12, 1968.
- The “Lucy” specimen of Australopithecus afarensis was found November 24, 1974.
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- Scott Sigler book giveaway winner is Lathrop Preston (contact Derek on Facebook with your details!).
- Brian Thompson the new Field Coordinator at the James Randi Educational Foundation.
- Consider Helping Skeptical Thinking via The Season of Reason.
- Get JREF mobile apps and e-books.
- Get your cool Randi tree ornament now!
- Joseph W. Lazio is a project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope.
- The SKA will be able to do some pretty cool science.
- Radio telescopes are a bit different than normal 'optical' scopes.
- One famous radio telescope was seen in the movie Contact and Godeneye.
- The SKA will be using different types of antenna systems.
- You can get involved in the SKA and further exciting science!