Hey, whoever is searching the internet and coming across my site with the terms ‘essay on Zara by Mary Hooper’ -- let me know? I seriously want to talk to your teacher… or help you out!
In the meantime, I might blog if I can from Adelaide. Whilst travelling, I choose to take with me:
Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks by Christopher Brookmyre -- he can tell you about it himself…
Counter-Knowledge: How We Surrendered to Conspiracy Theories, Quack Medicine, Bogus Science and Fake History by Damian Thompson:
‘The few hours it will take you to read this passionate, angry, wise and witty book will be well spent. You will have a lot of fun and at the same time be armed to the teeth against the many modes of quackery that are abroad today and the ethos that has permitted them to flourish.’ Raymond Tallis
‘This excellent book should be put in the satchel of every secondary school child, in the pigeonhole of every undergraduate, and in the hands of every officer of every quango called Ofsomething.’ A C Grayling, New Humanist
Superstition: Belief in the Age of Science by Robert L.Park:
From uttering a prayer before boarding a plane, to exploring past lives through hypnosis, has superstition become pervasive in contemporary culture? Robert Park, the best-selling author of Voodoo Science, argues that it has. In Superstition, Park asks why people persist in superstitious convictions long after science has shown them to be ill-founded. He takes on supernatural beliefs from religion and the afterlife to New Age spiritualism and faith-based medical claims. He examines recent controversies and concludes that science is the only way we have of understanding the world.
Take care, will write another time, and see you there if you’re going!
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The Park one seems very interesting, and a topic on my mind a lot lately.
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