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This Is Your Brain On Juggling

by podblack on October 10, 2009

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. [...]

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Homeopathic Ignorance – Leads To Death In NSW

by podblack on September 28, 2009

Bruce M Hood reports on the Australian story with his personal insights as both a researcher of beliefs and a father (with a tip-o-the-hat to our very own Richard Saunders – we spoke to Prof. Hood for his very first podcast interview in Skeptic Zone episode #30) – A Tragedy of Homeopathic Ignorance: …It was [...]

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Science, Critical Thinking And Children In Need

by podblack on July 10, 2009

Firstly — here’s two films that I made for the Skeptic Zone podcast and only recently got uploaded. They were first filmed for the TANK vodcast; now they are edited for easier viewing. Thanks to Richard Saunders for getting me more time to show them in full. Interview with Professor Jeff Malpas — Dr Jeff [...]

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Dungeons And Dragons – Or Mazes And Monsters?

by gazza666 on July 14, 2008

The following post is for On The Shoulders of Giants — if you’re interested, my earlier entry is here! Traditional board games (such as chess, checkers, Scrabble, Parcheesi) have involved no role-playing on the part of the players, and some have involved a very minimum amount of role-playing within a board setting (such as Monopoly, [...]

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A Coffee Shop In My Town

by podblack on March 17, 2008

I don’t go to the coffee shop Gloria Jean’s often. Usually on a Saturday, I’ll go past it and if I have spare change, I get a cappuchino. Most of the time, I’ll do a drive-through on the way to work, if I feel like a coffee. They have a box, next to the till. [...]

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Little Kitten – Penn Jillette On Incorporating Magic

by podblack on March 16, 2008

I blogged about juggling, magic, brain research and doing the tango earlier, if you’re interested! Anyway, apparently you can vote in the USA on the Dancing With the Stars Show? The voting details should be up on the official site. Since I’m overseas, I’m just going to bop around to this instead:

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Juggling The Tango

by podblack on February 20, 2008

By now, you’ve all seen it, yes? Penn’s going to do ‘Dancing With The Stars‘. And it seems that everyone goes – “Well, he’s a big guy, will he be able to dance?” I haven’t seen him take to the dance floor, no. But I have seen this: Certainly a bit of dance required in [...]

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