Hugh Laurie

Tell Me More About This Australian Thing Called Rooting

by podblack on March 5, 2009

The first question I have is – did you join in on the #fisting recently on Twitter? Secondly – do you know the guy in the photo that Scott Hurst photographed? By the way – if the title isn’t a warning enough, yes, this post is the sort that will get me firmly registered on [...]

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Little Kitten – Fry and Laurie Rational Smorgasbord

by podblack on December 15, 2008

Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie give their thoughts on science, religion and their own beliefs in various TV & radio clips.

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Another ‘One’ Bites The Dust – The Finale Of ‘The One’

by podblack on August 10, 2008

Channel 7 — a thought: If you’re going to pre-record all three psychics responding to the claim that they ‘won the show’, don’t you think that perhaps one of them could have said something in their original predictions? “Daddo — it’s kind of pointless us writing in sooper-sekrit envelopes about who really is the winner. [...]

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Bad Tricks Are For Kids… Variety Review Of Psychic Kids

by podblack on June 14, 2008

This summer season, the official Psychic Kids website outlines their own puzzling and disturbing ‘concept’ of what they think they’re doing: PSYCHIC KIDS: CHILDREN OF THE PARANORMAL, profiles children who live with an incredible secret: they have psychic abilities. Feeling scared and isolated, these kids have nowhere to turn…until now. Help is on the way in [...]

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Little Kitten – Podcasting Gems

by podblack on February 21, 2008

First, I have to point out that Michael McRae, profiled in this blog earlier – is himself interviewing Dr Karl Kruszelnicki for Skepticality! This week on Skepticality, science educator and skeptic Michael McRae interviews one of Australia’s most recognizable scientists, Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki, who is known to most Aussies simply as “Dr. Karl.” Dr. Karl [...]

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