Articles tagged with "october"

Talk with skeptics & rationalists around the World! We call it Global Skeptics in the Pub.

I hope you had an enjoyable Labour Weekend for those able to take some time off.

2021: A group called Doctors Stand Up For Vaccination releases an open letter to the New Zealand public stressing the importance of vaccination. The letter is signed by 6535 registered doctors. - 2022: After being closed for a 2-year renovation project and a few weeks of public tours, the Hamilton Mormon Temple is rededicated. Listen to the Yeah… Nah episode about Bronwyn, Craig, and Mark's road trip to tour the temple here!

1980: Colin Gardener and his neighbour Helena Bradley see a lioness near Gardener's home in Wellington. Which is notable because New Zealand has no indigenous big cats. A police search around the Meadowcrofts property turns up nothing. A few days later, Gardener and another neighbour, Maurice Bradley, catch another glimpse of the creature and determine that it is not a lioness but just an unusually big ex-domestic cat. - 2021: After 23 years, Christchurch City Council call time on paying The Wizard of New Zealand. The Wizard aka Ian Brackenbury Channell, was paid $16,000/year by the council for acts of wizardry and other wizard-like services. At the time, Channell has received $368,000 for his services.

Our annual NZ Skeptics Conference, being held in Wellington on 25th - 27th November is just weeks away now.

Hey, I know that there are some skeptics in Auckland. We're holding our first regular (monthly) Skeptics in the Pub this Tuesday night (4th October, 7pm) at Dice & Fork at Victoria Park Market. We'd love to see you there.

David Meade, who I spoke about last month as predicting the end of the world around the 20th of September, has given us all a reprieve. Obviously the world didn't end, but he now says that October the 21st is the real end of the world.

During the recent visit of Pope Francis to the United States, in every city he visited, (Washington DC, New York City and Philadelphia,) there were people at the fringes of the largest crowds wearing bright yellow shirts, often carrying large yellow signs, handing out literature proclaiming the end of the world for October 7, 2015 from eBible Fellowship, led by Chris McCann.

When Sensing Murder psychic Deb Webber announced on TV One's Breakfast show that missing Auckland toddler Aisling Symes was in "a ditch, hole" it raised eyebrows all over the place (NZ Herald, 9 October).