Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
Just in from Orlando Sentinal! You can’t keep a shaggy dog story down… especially when it’s one that ends up having people put in jail unfairly – wha? Hang on? News item from Central Florida, where apparently people were being convicted of violent crimes, based almost exclusively on the “testimony” of a police dog – [...]
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Oh — click on the links here too. Clicky click! And give the vid some stars. George Hrab of the Geologic Podcast takes the Olympus LS-10 to the Easton School of Rock and captures these talented kids in action. Performers (Easton School of Rock): – Nikki Palar Vocals – Anthony Zucchero Guitar – Paul Ermlich [...]
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Great new site, great new idea! RESURCH+ORG is (merely, humbly, sporadically) my personal collection of links, references, insights, and inspirations that I have compiled while writing The Skepdad Blog. These are sites I read, books I reference, documents I consult, or information I find otherwise useful and interesting. I’ve put it here specifically to be [...]
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Appears the Mark Wootton / Shirley Ghostman / UK comedy shows Little Duke Productions / Verses story has some additional legs, with quite a few people being drawn into being filmed without realising that they’re part of a project… that has more in common with ‘Borat’ and John Saffran than a Scorsese or Spike Lee. [...]
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Great song – great video. Thanks to Heidi for this one, the band Riki “Garfunkel” Lindhome and Kate “Oates” Micucci are “Garfunkel and Oates”. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXPcBI4CJc8
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Confession — I used to be a member of BowieNet, the fansite for David Bowie. Duncan Jones would occasionally pop in (and so did his dad, although he went by the name of ‘Sailor’. Funny chap, he was). So it was via BowieNet that I heard about Jones’ work on an advert for Kodak — [...]
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..and then I go and find a cool YouTube video to show you… gah. Anyway. Enjoy. Inexplicable Acts was a series of events at Wellcome Collection delving into the science behind the sideshow act. Featuring a contortionist, extreme juggling and an Ignobel prize winning sword swallower and presented by Richard Wiseman, the events were a [...]
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Dear Readers (of which there’s an average of about 500 a day, so hello x 500!), There’s a lot of features on this blog. Some links to the lengthier essay-style blog posts called Skepticism – Gender, Activism and Education… which I admit contains information that could be better utilised elsewhere or reworked to be more [...]
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