Michael L Schmicker's Blog

• The Dying of the Light

  June 24, 2009

  • Ready for some scientific heresy? First, the orthodox sermon:  In a January 19, 2007 article entitled “The Mystery of Consciousness,” Steven Pinker,  Johnstone Professor of Psychology  at Harvard University, assured readers of Time magazine that “Consciousness does not reside in an ethereal soul that uses the brain like a PDA; consciousness is the activity of the brain.” Scientists ...
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• Maverick Author, Maverick Science

  June 10, 2009

  • How old is Egypt’s Great Sphinx? Controversial author Dr. Robert Schoch, Yale-trained geologist and professor of natural sciences at Boston University, is famous for re-dating its construction to 7000-5000 B.C. His well-researched conclusion, resting on the known physics of limestone weathering, enraged establishment Egyptologists who adamantly proclaim Pharaoh Khafre’s subjects carved the ...
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• William James, Ghost Hunter

  May 30, 2009

  • I have a good friend who earned his Ph.D in chemistry from Harvard. He’s a college dean and professor of oceanography at a name-brand U.S. university. He’s authored textbooks in his field of research. In short, he’s the very model of a modern, major-league scientist. He tolerates my membership in the Society for Scientific Exploration  and our interest in scientific anomalies, but has no ...
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