Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
Dangerous stuff. Will distract you from research… with research. Beware. It’s taken from the PubMed database of scientific abstracts. NCBI ROFL Real articles. Funny subjects. Exorcism-resistant ghost possession treated with clopenthixol. “BACKGROUND. An Indian man now in Britain explained his criminal behaviour as episodic ghost possession. Traditional exorcisms failed to help. METHOD. A ‘Western’ diagnosis [...]
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Welcome to the beginning of 2009 and the Guide to Postgraduate study at Praxis! Sometimes it’ll appear to be a carnival about careers in academia; sometimes it’ll seem like life lessons and the way your scholastic endeavors change your world and others. Here, the experts investigate, interrogate and enlighten with their wit and wisdom – [...]
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Hop on over to Thesis with Children! As one door closes, another one opens. Likewise, as one door opens, another one closes. Some great entries; I particularly enjoyed those by Faraday’s Cage is where you put Schroedinger’s Cat, Unbalanced Reaction and FairerScience – head on over and find what grabs your reading interest because there’s [...]
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Just a brief note for readers – you may have noticed that I’m working on a few additional ‘pages’ beyond the blog that is featured here. Avoid Scams – I’ve started organising my thoughts on scams and the issues involved when people get into supporting charities and finding suitable outreach projects to support. It seems [...]
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Thanks to the blog-masterpoet Digital Cuttlefish for the alert (by the way, you MUST check out his latest poem ‘Keep an open mind!’) There is a wonderful new book out, full of excellent writing on Academia, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Mathematics & Technology, Medicine & Health Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences… oh, yeah, and my [...]
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