James Randi

Video Of The Quest For Houdini From WeirdThings.Com

by podblack on November 1, 2009

Recorded earlier today (well, late on Halloween) – here’s the seance that was conducted (love the waiter jokes by Randi!): Justin Robert Young and Andrew Mayne, along with help from Brian Brushwood, James Randi, Penn & Teller, the chat room and more.

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Thanks to glyphery for putting it up! Click on the picture to be taken to the site — download MP4. UPDATE -  A YouTube version by Matt Brown:

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‘The God Of Skeptics’ Article

by podblack on August 26, 2009

EDIT – the same article, with a slight title change, has now been syndicated in the San Francisco News as ‘The Demystifying Adventures of The Amazing Randi‘. I started to read a link that Richard Saunders (who you can follow on Twitter under the name @skepticzone) presented. It was an article by Michael J. Mooney [...]

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Whoot! Simon Singh taking part in our fundraising idea! Here he is after the talk he just gave at Uni Sydney, with the Skeptic Zone supporting. Now you can help too! The University of Western Australia’s Atheist and Agnostic Society are planning to celebrate Open Day by recognizing the contribution of rationalism. UWA happens to [...]

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Okay, whatever you may say? I still enjoyed the music. Or at least, the majority of it — and his family and kids will certainly need support over this. Yet, this is still the first thing that has me rolling my eyes in grim bemusement about the whole sordid business of having TMZ the first [...]

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I’ll be very busy and tied up with work and personal business for quite a while – so I will let you enjoy the following gem in celebration of Darwin, beyond Darwin Day! Michael McRae, CSIRO’s Science by Email coordinator, was interviewed earlier on this blog about Science Communication and Education. I had the opportunity [...]

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Pigasus Flies Again!

by podblack on December 16, 2008

The world’s first skeptic origami pig has a new fan-video out! This one is by vivoslibertos, for a student project, and I love the way he levitates off the screen: The creator, Richard Saunders (of the Australian skeptics, the Mystery Investigators show and the Skeptic Zone) has an Origami DVD out as well: Learn how [...]

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