Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
Personally? I’m sick to death of hearing about Power Balance Bands and the popularity of these particular dodgy products — I’ve even ‘unfollowed’ people off Twitter until they’ve stopped railing against them. Yawn. Because, to my mind, once Choice Magazine has pointed out the obvious: This so-called exercise-assisting “hologram” is nothing more than a pricey [...]
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I recently learned that I’m one of the few active-online skeptics (and honestly, I wonder even if I’m that much of a ‘skeptic’ anymore) – who can be named as having done primary research on assessing belief in the paranormal. Big thanks to Swoopy, Derek and Desiree for giving me a lovely shout-out on an [...]
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I’m at the Skeptic Track room — about to watch Prof. Barbara Drescher, Richard Saunders, Dr Rachael Dunlop, Donna Mugavero and Tom Merritt talk about skepticism, scams and consumerism! Apparently there are a lot of Australians following the Live Stream, which you can find at http://www.skeptrack.org/watch-live. This is about the fifth panel of the day, [...]
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Very clever marketing, have a look at the entire article featured at ‘Read Write Web‘: ‘How the Old Spice Videos Are Being Made’ Old Spice, marketing agency Wieden + Kennedy and actor Isaiah Mustafa are collaborating on the project. The group seeded various social networks with an invitation to ask questions of Mustafa’s character, a [...]
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Yes, he’s back. Oh dear… I’m certain there’ll be another interview with the people who made the ad online later (the interview they did with Craig Allen and Eric Kallman of Wieden + Kennedy discussed how they did it all in one continuous shot, very interesting!)
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Although this is a little delayed from when I first learned of their involvement — I do want to make this significant hat-tip to two local talents, who have done something wonderful. Thom Perry of TeePeeDesign (Chief Honcho, Supreme Being and Doubtless Ruler) and Rikki Burns (who I have already mentioned this month with her [...]
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22 Comments By Christopher Hitchens
by podblack on June 8, 2010
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