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Review – Lie To Me

by podblack on February 1, 2009

Lie To Me? Well, I’m enjoying it. Right now I’m watching the second episode, where it begins with lie detectors and how they’re little better than holding a West African Egg. In West Africa anyone suspected of a crime was made to hand a bird’s egg to another person. Anyone who broke the egg would [...]

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1) You are: a) A klutzy-dipsy high-school student who seems to be destined for a life in cardigans and Ivy League postgrad-degree pursuit (possibly to escape the fact that your mother seems to have more of a teenage lifestyle than you); b) A klutzy-dipsy coffee-house baker who seems destined for a life in cardigans and [...]

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Found on ABC’S At The Movies: if you head there, there’s a preview video. MARGARET: …A few years ago he was just another performer with ambitions, with a working wife who supported him and then he got a gig at the Melbourne Comedy Festival and that’s where life started to change. From Melbourne to Edinburgh, [...]

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Got Tim Minchin Australian Tour Tickets Yet?

by podblack on October 14, 2008

Well? Have you? I admit, I’ve been flat out with Philosophy and Ethics meetings and work (Monday – PD training course; Tuesday – consultation meeting; Wednesday – touching base for the next leg of research; Thursday – see if friends remember I’m alive and Friday – graduation for my former students!). But I’m not missing [...]

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Plait’s Death From The Skies – Want A Copy?

by podblack on October 4, 2008

Yes, it’s been released. Here’s a photo I got of Michael Stackpole enjoying his copy – but mine has been edited, ha ha ha! And I’m thinking I might just donate my copy that I got (ah, Amazon.com, you are so nice to send on zippy post!) mine to whoever wants to send in what [...]

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Sorry, This Made Me Laugh…

by podblack on September 26, 2008

Review in the Guardian of a certain show that just came out: I feel cheated by Extraordinary People: The Million Dollar Mind Reader (Five). This was a film about a man called Derek Ogilvie who says he can communicate telepathically with babies. And he’s prepared to be tested scientifically, which is rare for people like [...]

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My fellow Translucent Science bloggers, who have long been keeping a keen eye on the Dore developments whilst I’ve been busy travelling for research purposes, have all the buzz for you on what’s going on with the British Chiropractic Association vs Simon Singh. But first – there’s a brand new review out in the Wall [...]

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Look, I didn’t see ‘Lady in the Water‘. After ‘The Village‘, I felt that things were clearly on a downward-spiral towards ‘released straight to dvd and even then only spends a week in the new release section – if must view, then use the free-if-you-get-one-new-voucher’. I have, however (and you may hate me if you [...]

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