romance

The Moon Got Your Libido?? Reflections On SciTech’s Science Of Attraction

by podblack on October 10, 2010

You’re going to have to excuse me for taking so long to write this blog-post about what I did on Saturday night – Academic Database Journal Search isn’t being very helpful at the moment: Search terms – ‘moon’ and ‘libido’ and ‘human’ = NO RECORDS IN SET. On Saturday night I attended Perth Scitech’s “Very Sexy [...]

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An Indian Romeo And Juliet

by podblack on June 21, 2009

I don’t think I link to the blog of Digital Cuttlefish enough, but if you’re seriously looking for excellent verse that has recently been published in the recent Australian Skeptic and is regularly lauded for appearances in some of the best science and skeptic blogs out there – head to their site. You can even [...]

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What’s Cooler? Matt Smith As Young Doctor Who? Or ME In Open Lab Anthology??!!

by podblack on January 4, 2009

Seriously, I cried. I’m now waiting on the poem and cartoon as well, because this looks like such a great line-up of writers. I am so honored – Podblack Blog is in the Open Laboratory Science Blogging anthology for 2008!! I know many of you are trembling in anticipation: “Did I make it this year?”. [...]

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Skeptical Movies? Three You Might Have Missed

by podblack on October 6, 2008

Flicking back through my records, I noticed a list that was first started by Daniel Loxton on Facebook, recommending some good films for skeptics. He suggested: Leap of Faith -  with Steve Martin, loosely based on the Peter Popoff faith healing scam. Fairy Tale: A True Story — which he pointed out has an excellent [...]

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Romance By Numbers

by podblack on April 14, 2008

The NY Times has turned me poetic… an article about a man who publishes ‘niche-texts’, with the help of computers, Phillip M Parker: …Mr. Parker has generated more than 200,000 books, as an advanced search on Amazon.com under his publishing company shows, making him, in his own words, “the most published author in the history [...]

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Smart Bitches, Not Meerly Sex

by podblack on January 19, 2008

I have to admit, since it’s only the 19th of January, it’s pretty cool to see the ‘sexiest plagiarism scandal of 2008′ erupt so soon! And all because of animal sex and romance fiction! Hawt. I’ll admit upfront and proudly that I’m a fan of romance novels. Yes, from the trashy ones to the ones [...]

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