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Retrospectacle – My Mascot Only Gave Me Sex Appeal

by podblack on August 13, 2009

What is Retrospectacle? This series of posts are a kind of Thomas Dolby-inspired ‘retrospectacle’ of earlier popular entries from my site, which will fill in during the time that I am busy working. I also hope you check out the MiniBlog entries that feature on the sidebar too.
So, Amnesty International are doing a bit of [...]

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My Black Cat’s Superstitions Are Sexier Than Yours – You Can Has Podcast!

by podblack on February 13, 2009

You can find out if that’s true by subscribing to the special Friday the Thirteenth edition of the Skeptic Zone podcast!
That’s hosted on iTunes – Skeptic Zone on iTunes
That’s found on the website – Skeptic Zone
That’s found on the blog – Skeptic Zoners
That’s found crossing your path, smashing your mirrors and laughing at your luck [...]

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Year Of The Ox – Charming Tradition Or Load Of Bull?

by podblack on January 30, 2009

The third day of the Lunar New Year is traditionally regarded as unlucky to visit other people’s homes. So people turned up in droves at the Che Kung temple in Sha Tin to spin the wheels and bang the drums in the hopes of gaining good luck in the Year of the Ox. Police [...]

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Five Leaf Clovers!

by podblack on November 10, 2008

Blog entry featured on Encephalon #58 – at ScienceBase.com: It’s just a mutation, like the four-leaf clover, of course. The four-leaf mutation is quite rare occurring once in about 10,000 specimens. Five is rarer still. But, according to this site: Five-leaf Clovers bring extra good luck and attracts money.

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Women and Superstitions – Part Four

by podblack on October 24, 2008

Welcome to my 1000th blog entry!
You wonder why ‘part four’? Educate yourself, the same way I’ve been doing for the past year as a part of my Masters degree in Education, looking at what very well may be the biggest sample of Australians on paranormal, pseduoscientific AND conspiracy theory beliefs yet!
Part One; Part Two; Part [...]

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Little Kitten – Dr Wiseman Talks To Cris Gardner

by podblack on September 30, 2008

Takes a while to start (I think the person who edited it might have included the opening screen twice) – but this is Dr Richard ‘Quirkology‘ Wiseman in a car advert (Volvo).
He’s having a chat to the man who inspired the film The Pursuit of Happyness: Cris Gardner, a millionaire, philanthropist and motivational speaker who [...]

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