Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
Are Violent Video Games Adequately Preparing Children For The Apocalypse? Now that you have checked out whether you’re adequately prepared for that (and I have your attention!) – the 2nd of March should be in your blogging schedules – as that’s the date for Encephelon, the the bi-weekly neuroscience blog carnival – hosted here at [...]
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Check out the Death in the Skies cartoon! She also features on TED.
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From the very vigilant Holford Watch on the continuing Dore saga: …We were therefore surprised when somebody looking to research Rutherford’s work contacted Sheffield Uni and learned that Rutherford is no longer a PhD student there: he was registered as a part-time student from 2003-5 but “withdrew without completing any substantive research”…
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An essay on Walt Whitman that has to be seen to be believed… or maybe it’s just a funny hoax… …I quite like his take on religion too… Peter Nguyen on the Stations of the Cross.
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Remember how I blogged about doing a great online unit in Parapsychology? Now listen to the great lady of the course herself, Dr Caroline Watt, on the latest Skeptic Zone podcast! Richard Saunders interviews Dr Caroline Watt – member of the Koestler Parapsychology Unit at the University of Edinburgh. Excellent show, well worth putting aside [...]
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Submission for March Scientiae – ‘Who inspires you or motivates you? Who would you call your role models, at any stage of your career?’ “I wanted my cancer to mean something. When I heard about a clinical trial testing a new treatment for breast cancer that offered better chances of survival with less of the [...]
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Just a quick one here — Richard Wiseman recently posted yet another one of those Carmina Buranda parodies, which if you checked A Blog Around The Clock in January, you would have seen a distinctly squidy-version already. Whilst I’ve written about audio illusions before, with a more academically-minded post called Going Backwards, which talks about [...]
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