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Kirby doesn't provide any details about the experiment, so a reader might misinterpret this claim as implying that this parrot did about twice as well as people did in the ganzfeld telepathy experiments. In those experiments, subjects in separate rooms were monitored as one tried to telepathically send information from a picture or video to the other. Typically, there was a 20% chance of guessing what the item was but results as high as 38% were reported in some meta-analyses. If the parrot scored three times better than chance, then he would have gotten 60% correct. The odds of a parrot randomly blurting out words that match up 60% of the time with pictures being looked at simultaneously in another room are so high that there is virtually no way that this could happen by chance. However, as you might suspect, Kirby's claim is a bit misleading.
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To help relocate honeybee swarms, the Gaston County Beekeepers Association (GCBA) maintains a "swarm list" of local beekeepers certified by the N.C. Beekeepers Association. When the call comes in, a GCBA beekeeper will respond to a swarm of concern and remove the queen and workers from an area where people and animals may be harmed and take them somewhere safe.
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Any alleged Christian who speaks generically of "people of faith" is speaking contrary to the clear teachings of the Bible. Aside from Jews, who ... worship "God the Father", (but do not acknowledge Jesus as the Christ) other religions such as Islam do not worship the same God. Speaking of "people of faith" perpetuates the error that other other faiths are also acceptable to God and Christians.
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Heagarty said that one of the reasons for doing the study was that he felt existing polling on the issue was not reliable. "Most of the surveys I have seen have short-changed this issue, asking questions such as 'Do you agree with giving politicians tax-dollars for their campaigns?', which you already know people won't agree with before you ask it. It's like asking 'Do you support a tax increase?' But if you give voters some context, such as 'Do you support a half cent increase in the sales tax to build new schools?' you might get a different answer."
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Why would the good people of Killington want to do such a thing? Taxes, pure and simple. Somebody up there figured out that Killington sends about $10 million in tax revenues up to Montpelier, and only gets back about $1 million. They looked east, saw lower taxes and smaller government, and decided they would rather be there.
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