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Okay, colour-changing-card-me confused about the combination of a new paper and a much older report on the benefits of magic tricks for children!
Questioning something that even I find rather palatable upon first reading isn’t unusual, particularly if it involves education claims. I guess I like to question even my own fervent hope that an introduction [...]
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A news story that was printed in the New Humanist back in May/June 2008 has been revived in The Times today. It’s not exactly a ‘catching up’, but I’d say it’s a revisit to how rationalists in India continue to challenge superstitious and claims by gurus.
Sanal Edamaruku wrote about Death on air – the night [...]
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“Opera” Card flourishes. Thanks to Alejandro Portela and the clearly very talented Dimitri Arleri of the site “thecuso” for pointing out this link!
One for Andrew Mayne, who sent me a very nice email!
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Since Q.I has finally (finally!) reached Australian TV, I thought I might mention an earlier TV show which features Alan Davies – Jonathan Creek.
I began watching this years back when it featured on ABC TV, when I didn’t even know that there was such a thing as ’skepticism’. What I immediately liked about this show [...]
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Great looking headline at BBC News – “Juggling Increases Brain Power“, about a forthcoming study in Nature Neuroscience, where results indicated a 5% increase in white matter – the ‘cabling network of the brain’.
The scientists studied a group of 24 healthy young adults, none of whom could juggle. They divided them into two groups.
One [...]
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