(Slightly pre-emptive) Happy New Year, yous guys. I’m not really one for resolving things, especially when we’ve just had Christmas and it’s nearly my birthday, but if I were going to have a resolution for 2009, it’d probably just be “More words”. I actually did pretty well in 2008 in most regards, not least finishing [...]
Archive for December, 2008
8 Lessons and Carols for Godless People
Posted in anecdote, news, random, tagged christmas, richard dawkins, robin ince, science, twitter, writing on December 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Lights in the sky
Posted in skepticism, skeptictionary, tagged aliens, astronomy, paranormal, phil plait, skepticism, ufos on December 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A lot of people think that aliens have come visiting us and have all sorts of dastardly and/or sexy plans for us. Often, people think this because they reckon they’ve seen these aliens, in the sky, whooshing around in ways that definitely looked like a spaceship and not like anything else. Some skeptics say that [...]
Astrology
Posted in science, skepticism, skeptictionary, tagged astrology, astronomy, magic, science, skepticism on December 7, 2008 | 4 Comments »
It will probably surprise very few of you that I don’t believe in astrology. I don’t think there’s any significance to what sign I’m born under, but then, I’m a “Give way to oncoming traffic”, and that’s typical of us. What’s The Score-pio? Astrology is the idea that the positions and movements of the stars [...]











