Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
Interesting discussion (and clearly, rather tongue-in-cheek) stemming from a post on the Derren Brown blog in response to Dr Chris French’s article (‘Spoon Bending For Beginners‘) in the Guardian. …Don’t panic. I believe this is a development to be warmly welcomed, although I should declare a vested interest. From September, anomalistic psychology will be offered [...]
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You may have noticed that the blog has pretty much been a string of videos, links to media items and plenty of ‘little kittens’. If you’re new to the blog, my ‘little kittens‘ are essentially fun and / or interesting finds. They also indicate that I’m probably under the hammer or under a pile of [...]
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Today a news item popped up, which didn’t really surprise me. I’d heard of accounts of similar sorts of behaviour as ‘warnings’ to me, when I tried talking about how interesting and educational it would be to talk about the paranormal and pseudoscientific topics in the high school classroom. What should a teacher do in [...]
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I was going to just pop this into the miniblog… but it got me thinking beyond the subject it talks about: teaching evolution in modern times and changes made to the education system in Florida to cater for this. Besides, I have about three hours to kill whilst sitting here at Gatwick airport, and I [...]
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On the news, as I write this, there is a protest. In fact, I’m certain I’ve just seen a teacher I know, waving a banner. Kind of makes me want to wave a banner about something that has bugged me for a while. Here in my state, “…after eight months of negotiations the Government has [...]
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