Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
You would think that making iconoclastic comments about pretty much every Hollywood star in attendance might as well get people sniffy about his performance (as hilarious as some of them were) — but as I’ve learned, it’s the comparatively innocuous closing quip, “Thank God I’m an atheist”, that got everyone outraged about Ricky Gervais at [...]
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Yes, I’m third author. On a journal article. My very first. It’s with Martin Bridgstock, my dear friend and author of ‘Beyond Belief: Skepticism, Science and the Paranormal‘ and my supervisor at UWA, Ida Marais. I’m proud of the chance to work with them and proud this result, for several reasons. The structure of superstitious [...]
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This one is for Jack and Milton. The stairs are in Odenplan, Stockholm. There is a set of stairs, with a moving escalator next to it …. both of which lead to the same spot on the floor of the upper level. At first no one took the stairs, almost 97% of the people took [...]
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For those puzzled about episodes 51-2 of the Token Skeptic – they’re on their way. Again. It’s just a matter of getting the internet to behave itself and upload them onto Libsyn. Absolutely annoyed, but nothing can be done until things are fixed here. Should be fixed by tomorrow – and I’ll see about getting [...]
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I think this has been passed around online so often, that everyone has already seen it — but then I remembered I hadn’t sent it to T. So, this is for T. Work for ‘everyone else’ starts next week. I’ll be working on the last of a few projects, tidying up the website, seeing what [...]
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Used in promoting the forthcoming Richard Wiseman book — download your own copy of the illusion at www.paranormalitybook.com.
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A quick update of forthcoming Token Skeptic podcast episodes (including the re-release of last Monday’s one, which seems to have suffered a glitch – really sorry about that!) and what I’m up to in the UK in early February. Tomorrow’s show will be an interview with the inspirational Alan Conradi of the Western Sydney Freethinkers, [...]
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Was privy to a conversation tonight regarding confusion about ‘which video for which song’ — so this is for G, who knows why — MJ music!
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