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Luck Of The Irish And Other Reasons To Avoid The Pub Today

by podblack on March 17, 2009

In the past, I’ve ‘somewhat’ celebrated St Patrick’s day by seeing an Irish film. Over the years, I’ve seen ‘The Snapper‘ and ‘The Commitments‘, both based on novels by Roddy Doyle. This is usually because the pubs are just too busy around here, there isn’t a parade or any such big celebration in this town [...]

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Women and Superstitions – Part Four

by podblack on October 24, 2008

Welcome to my 1000th blog entry! You wonder why ‘part four’? Educate yourself, the same way I’ve been doing for the past year as a part of my Masters degree in Education, looking at what very well may be the biggest sample of Australians on paranormal, pseduoscientific AND conspiracy theory beliefs yet! Part One; Part [...]

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Women and Superstitions – Part Two

by podblack on April 27, 2008

Following on from Women and Superstitions — Part One. I’d like to first return briefly to Dr Michael Shermer’s book ‘Why People Believe in Weird Things‘. You may have even seen the TED talk of the same title — here’s part one of two: From the book: For a variety of reasons related to the [...]

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