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I'm puzzled by the "both sides do it" take. On the global warming issue, the big money is all on the anti- side. Global warming (and the measures needed to deal with it) would be a major impediment to business-as-usual. On the other hand, as a left-liberal person I certainly don't feel that if...

If economic growth really will be limited by global warming and/or resource shortages, the politics becomes much more difficult. The less well-off will no longer benefit from "a rising tide lifts all boats". The pressures for redistribution of wealth and income (e.g. your dreaded "socialism")...

My grandfather used to invite them in and argue with them. Drove my grandma nuts.

More OT -- my understanding is that currently there are quite a number of automatic cameras photographing the sky for various reasons, day and night. You'd think these would be a rich source of UFO photos. So could it be that there aren't very many UFOs, or that photos of UFOs are being ignored...

Colin Bennett on his website has mentioned having health problems. His website hasn't been updated since April either (previously it was updated almost daily) so I too am inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt. So far I've only listened to part of the interview. But based on his website...

They have to pursue any violation that comes to their attention, or they could be open to allegations that they haven't done their legal duty or are only enforcing rules selectively. Either of which could land them in court -- as defendants.

I don't know anything about Greer and his business, but from a government perspective it's a lot easier to just have a blanket ban on private business in public parks than it is to always be explaining in court why one business was allowed and not another. We run into the same kinds of issues in...

Very far from the first time this has happened. AIDS probably came from monkeys. Influenza lives and recombines in pigs and birds before reinfecting humans every year. Interestingly, it hasn't been all bad. Cowpox (an animal variant of smallpox) apparently conferred immunity to the much more...

Yes, historically some sort of religious belief has been the human norm. The really interesting question is why that has (to some extent) changed. I've never been satisfied with the usual "rise of science" answer. The death of a child is far more devastating evidence against (say) a loving God...

A long answer (or maybe just more questions): Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero

I have several of Bennett's books (including "An American Demonology" which is subtitled "Flying Saucers over the White House"). I generally enjoy reading him, but he could be accused of having a small number of good ideas which he sort of beats to death. Er, I guess none of this is a question...

I agree it looks like space junk. The irregular flashing indicates something that's tumbling. You can see things like that from the ground too if you watch from a location with a fairly dark sky.

Maybe a "Roswell Rod" (flying insect caught in a weird way in the video)? Anyway, it's a leap to already be thinking in terms of a "craft".

Thinking about it more, an ancient Greek might be able to figure out most of the technology we had up until about 1880 or so. Much of it would be recognizable to him, if maybe more complicated and precise than anything he would have seen before. Even steam engines wouldn't be completely...

"Regardless of the mechanism, it [alien technology] will function as an expression of the basic laws of matter, functions which we understand better now than at anytime in our history." I'm not arguing that we (at least specialists) don't understand the basic laws of matter better than...

Alien technology might be based on physics that we don't have a clue about. We really can't guess what discoveries will be made in the next 10 years, much less 100, 1000, 10000, 1 million... On the other hand, we might be able to make use of alien technology even if we don't understand its...

I generally enjoyed the show. I did think that Beckley often talked over Swartz (not maliciously, but from over-enthusiasm) and that it would have been better to interview them separately as you did in an earlier show.

I had never heard of Persinger before, and I know little about the human brain or the Earth's magnetic field. BUT, my BS detector started screaming the second he started talking. An immediate gut reaction. My other reaction was that being directly aware of everyone else's thoughts would be...

Any chance the first light you and your brother saw was a helicopter or small plane, maybe with a spotlight or landing light? One night a few years ago I was out on the street with my dog and we got lit up by a police helicopter. I guess something had happened in our area and they were flying...

Here in Hawaii our internet service is slow today. Some of us think it's because of all these birther bozos looking for Obama's b.c.