Psychic Sally? She’s no BCA

For something that involves so much lying down and making sympathetic faces, looking after a girlfriend with glandular fever can be surprisingly tiring and time-consuming. So, apologies that I’m still not very present here. However, although I’m not going to comment at length about Sally Morgan today, it’s worth mentioning that Simon Singh is one [...]

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Apocalypse Harder

Or possibly, Rapture II: Die Rapturer. Anyway. Tomorrow is Harold Camping’s second attempt to correctly predict the end of the world (this year). But it might surprise you to learn that his first attempt was, in fact, entirely successful. It turns out that May 21st, when everyone was holding their breath and excitedly awaiting the [...]

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Practise Safe Teeth

I wrote a whole post for tonight on some head-scratching moral analysing of questionable situations, then realised I’d been really boring. So here’s another thing. I liked this quote from Dr Marty Klein in a recent post on abstinence-only education: We know how we would describe a parent who’s uncomfortable about his own teeth, and [...]

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Police State

So, here’s a thing. Imagine there’s this privileged subset of society who are allowed to break into your home with impunity. Let’s call them the “overlords”. There’d probably be certain rules about exactly when the overlords get to enter your premises against your will. But imagine too that, if some particular overlords broke these rules [...]

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Flashbulb memory

Here’s a video that’s kinda fun if you know what’s going on:     Maybe I should explain what’s going on. Penn & Teller do a regular magic show in Las Vegas, several times a week, and have been doing so for years now. The show changes constantly, with some tricks being retired once they’ve [...]

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Abhorrent dreck and untrammelled rage <3

My lovely nursey girlfriend’s gone and done a blog thing, about abortion and idiots. She rants good. Have a read.

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The Power of Prayer

One thing that’s important to remember is that I’m a total wuss. Okay, so in the spirit of combating the stigma surrounding mental health problems, maybe I should use less accusatory language, and not sound like I’m browbeating myself for my sporadic psychic troubles. But you know what I’m getting at. I often get myself [...]

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Harry Potter, Paul Daniels, and Scotland

Greetings, people of Earth. I am no longer in Scotland. Posting is still going to be a bit irregular for a while, but there’s a lot to discuss when I find the time. Here’s Richard Dawkins talking about magic.     The title of his new book, The Magic Of Reality, is an excellent summation [...]

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