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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 [...]

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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 estimated [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Number’s Up For Luck And CNN School Haunting Hysteria

by podblack on August 8, 2008

Good news — looks like this really wonderful beach view will indeed be a feature for much of my travels next week! But I’ve only just got back from a six-hour round trip for the first part of the research in the region, so I’m essentially shagged out at the moment. I’ll see how I [...]

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My Mascot Only Gave Me Sex Appeal

by podblack on May 21, 2008

So, Amnesty International are doing a bit of a phone-around recently, getting a friend to sign onto their charity. They’re doing some awareness-raising about the situation in China, with a goal to construct huge yellow ‘walls’ all over Australia to represent the Chinese internet censorship regime known as the Golden Shield or the Great Firewall [...]

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