Sara E. Mayhew, who recently featured on a fantastic episode of the Skepticality podcast! Here’s the first of three videos on her lecture. Part Two and Part Three here!
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Lovely fellow, we had a great chat after everything was over about our common career-choices as English as a Second Language teachers. Because embedding is disabled, click on it to head to the YouTube video and give him some nice ratings!
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If there’s anyone out there who isn’t already familiar with the current smack-down-oh-you-phat-pharmaceutical-shill-bitch-oh-I-don’t-mean-my-cuddly-customers-I-loves-youse that has been ongoing on Twitter… …and has rightfully taken prime-blogpost-place on every classy and reputable pro-skeptic site out there (which means it’s naturally lead by trendsetter Sean the Blogonaut and then that Orac bloke and someone from some not-Australian podcast and [...]
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And soon… the Skeptic Zone podcast will be available for your listening pleasure… in the meantime, enjoy the visuals! This music video was shot for Sour’s ‘Hibi no Neiro’ (Tone of everyday) from their first mini album ‘Water Flavor EP’. The cast were selected from the actual Sour fan base, from many countries around the [...]
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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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Two quick announcements before I get back to some solid nose-to-grindstone work for the next few weeks (excuse the absence, but it’s for a good cause). First — hope you’re going to be tuning into the very next Skeptic Zone podcast, because we interview Dr Richard Wiseman! He also has a quirky blog. Secondly — [...]
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From Pink Tentacle’s “Rice paddy art in Yamagata”: In the Yamagata prefecture town of Yonezawa, an image of 16th-17th century samurai Naoe Kanetsugu has appeared in a field near the Onogawa hot spring. The samurai, whose image is based on a portrait housed at the nearby Uesugi Museum, appears along with a pair of fireflies [...]
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When you’ve done with your glorious grand tour of the Continent, I’ve got something to share with you. Well, I’m going to get a hold of some of this first, then share it when we meet again – A Tiny Fruit That Tricks the Tongue from the NY Times: The miracle fruit, Synsepalum dulcificum, is [...]
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