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Weekly Roundup #5
Yes, time for another (not so weekly) weekly roundup. Pussy Riot Blog posts: Skepchick - Pussy Riot Is On Trial Today Skeptical Squirrel – A recap of posts on life on earth and evolution. Leaving...
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Curious about Curiosity?
Yes, Curiosity has survived the 7 minutes of terror and safely landed on Mars. The not so little rover is ready to start its journey across the dusty martian landscape, exploring Gale Crater and...
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Candy homeopathy?
One upon a time there were some homeopaths with a big, empty hole. The homeopaths spent years covering that hole with sticks and leaves, trying to hide its emptiness. Despite the emptiness of the...
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Weekly Roundup #6
Bit of a short roundup this week, been quite busy with art – drawing chibis takes up time. I’m thinking I might make these roundups fortnightly because I’ll be less likely to miss weeks then and it...
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Living with woo: cards that tell the future
Though it may seem sometimes that I have a hardline stance against all woo, that’s not true. I actually have quite a soft spot for tarot cards. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t believe for a second that...
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The internet, information and the sceptic community
The sceptic community seems almost synonyms to me with the atheist community. Not that all sceptics are atheists, or vice versa. Simply that there is a lot of overlap. Perhaps I’m being led by...
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Has it really been that long…
I really have been neglecting this blog. I can see that the last time I wrote something was…August. That is quite a while ago. I wouldn’t be surprised if no one even reads this. Still, I’ll try...
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Numbers and crime show psychic plots
So this is the first proper post from me as I try to get the blog back into action. I should warn you before you read any further: this post is a semi-rant about an episode of a TV program that I...
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Workplace Woo
Now I like the people who I work with, but sometimes conversations can be a little difficult to get through. Occasionally topics steer in the directions of woo and while I would very much like to...
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Book Review: The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson
Yesterday I picked up a copy of Jon Ronson’s The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry and began to read it. Less than 24 hours have passed since that moment of opening up the front...
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Living with Woo: my sister just bought an acupressure mat
Living with woo – my sister just bought an acupressure mat. Acupressure is an alternative medicine technique developed in Tibet before the development of Acupuncture. In acupressure physical pressure...
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Tales of religious education
Pointless setting of the scene: the other day I was in the kitchen, rummaging through presses and snacking on food as is so normal for me to do. My parents and one of my sisters were also there....
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[Book Review] The Church of Fear by John Sweeney
The Church of Fear: Inside the Weird World of Scientology by John Sweeney This is quite a good book and I would recommend it. If you want something that shows both sides of the argument as being...
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[Book Review] The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson
The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson The Men Who Stare at Goats is the second Jon Ronson book that I’ve read and so I can’t help but compare it to The Psychopath Test (read my review of it...
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[Book Review] Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks
Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks I decided to splurge and treat myself to Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks. I must say, it was well worth the whole £2 I spend on the kindle edition. Before reading...
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[Film Review] The Revisionaries
The Revisionaries is an interesting documentary (available on the US Netflix) about the Texas Education Board and their ability to influence the content of science textbooks. As a result, this has...
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The Scope of Skepticism by Kylie Sturgess
I’ll keep this review quite short – this is a great book. With over a hundred interviews conducted for the Token Skeptic podcast, one question remains open: what makes a skeptic a skeptic?...
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