Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
Yay! Includes ‘The Interval Song’, which has always amused me. Review from Dean Love from the Fringe Festival about the show, from which this album comes from: “But the songs, oh the songs, are uniformly magnificent. They swing from clever through satirical all the way into silly, with an occasional diversion into parody. There’s less [...]
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Tim Minchin on Science and Comedy: A strange thing has happened to stand-up comedy recently: it has started to find science funny… But ubiquity doesn’t equal humour. On the surface, science is either dry, stats-based and academic or vast, monumental and awe-inspiring. How to turn that into jokes? It can be done, says Australian comic [...]
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Enjoy! The Colbert ReportMon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Neil Gaiman Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Mark Sanford NASA Name Contest
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Here’s some links for you to get reading whilst I get back to writing. Oh, here’s some books as well. You can’t actually get these. Well, you might understand the implication behind the images, they’ve certainly entertained me – check out the collections on Flickr! Click on either, you’ll head straight to the artist’s pages. [...]
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In the past, I’ve ‘somewhat’ celebrated St Patrick’s day by seeing an Irish film. Over the years, I’ve seen ‘The Snapper‘ and ‘The Commitments‘, both based on novels by Roddy Doyle. This is usually because the pubs are just too busy around here, there isn’t a parade or any such big celebration in this town [...]
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…don’t quite know what to say (apart from thanks to Naon for telling me about it!)…
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From I09 — I LOVE this!! What kind of self-respecting human would ever sell something so similar to the deadly zombie creating T-Virus? Doesn’t Avon have a undead consultant on retainer? Or are they secretly working for Umbrella Corporation? YouTube vid for one and then the other — compare!
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Tonight is the second ep of Lost In Austen that I’ve caught. It’s a TV show about a 21st century Austen fan who accidentally swaps places with Elizabeth Bennett at the start of Pride and Prejudice. I say ‘swaps’ in that she doesn’t actually get mistaken for Elizabeth — everyone assumes she’s a friend of [...]
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