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Retrospectacle – Going Backwards #AtheistCon

by podblack on March 16, 2010

A few people might be interested in the science behind the short hymn I posted at the Global Atheist Convention and the point I raised about how even a room full of atheists can be fooled by an audio illusion. Enjoy!
I’ve attended lectures by skeptics at a few conferences by now; one of the more [...]

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Little Kitten – Know Your Meme: Autotune With Weird Al

by podblack on November 13, 2009

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Retrospectacle: Looking Good – Scientifically

by podblack on July 28, 2009

What is Retrospectacle? This series of posts are a kind of Thomas Dolby-inspired ‘retrospectacle’ of earlier popular entries from my site, which will fill in during the time that I am busy working for the rest of this month. I also hope you check out the MiniBlog entries that feature on the sidebar too. Women’s [...]

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Looking Good – Scientifically

by podblack on January 11, 2008

Women’s Wear Daily raises the question – are glasses just plain stylish rather than necessarily functional?
The social swirl these days is looking less like a scene out of “High Society” and more like something straight from “Revenge of the Nerds.” Actresses Cate Blanchett, Amy Sedaris and Dana Delaney have all hit the red carpet bespectacled [...]

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Going Backwards

by podblack on December 28, 2007

I’ve attended lectures by skeptics at a few conferences by now; one of the more popular presentations involves mentioning the funny side involved in the phenomenon of ‘backmasking’.
Certainly Weird Al finds it funny too, when he ‘remembers Larry’, although he deliberately hides those messages. It’s when our minds make meaning of genuinely garbled reversed songs [...]

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