• EXSMELLYARMPITS!

    I just tweeted “If I was Harry Potter I’d just do a spell instead of washing. EXSMELLYARMPITS!” which is funny because it’s a pun on a Potter-world spell, you see. Honestly, it’s funny. Anyway, it made me think of one of my favourite tweets by my bro-in-law @stubarb1 posted a few weeks ago: I’m not trying to point the finger…

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  • Girlgasm

    Ladies, all the ladies, gather round, I would like to talk about…sewing. Dressmaking is like cooking – in the domestic world it’s perceived as the domain of women, but in the professional world the top tailors have traditionally been men. No idea why that is. I myself come from a long line of tailors, and one of my favourite joys…

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  • The end of NHS homeopathy?

    Amazing news, or almost. Early reports from the Commons science and technology committee indicate that the taxpayer will no longer have to foot the bill for homeopathic treatments on the NHS. This has always been the biggest issue for me – private sales are annoying and misleading, but spending the cash-strapped NHS’s budget on sugar pills to the tune of…

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  • AI: Dar wins!

    Dead simple question today, as it’s Friday, Darwin day, and art day! Earlier, Rebecca posted the Darwin Day art that some of us had mine (I would say MINE is the best but they are all brilliant. DC Turner’s interactive musical beard is my favourite but only because it features Chuck Norris). You might remember last year Richard Wiseman created…

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  • Placebo Effect Explained

    Ben Goldacre just tweeted this great video commissioned by the NHS of him explaining the placebo effect in layman’s terms. Not aimed at me, but absolutely perfect for, say, my mum, I’m going to find a lot of use for this video. Nice one Ben (and the NHS).

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  • AI: Hypothetically speaking

    It’s Friday and I’m feeling frisky, so I’m going to ask those hypothetical questions that can actually inspire quite interesting debate. For example, the first interaction I ever had with Rebecca, some four million years ago, was an argument over such a question, one I’d posed on the JREF forum. Just goes to show what can come from the smallest…

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  • AI: Take me to a gay dar

    You can ‘tell’ when someone is gay. How? You just can! Maybe it’s some subtle external signal, like noticing that his eyes linger slightly longer on your boyfriend’s rear than on yours. Maybe when he’s drunk he gets a little more camp. Maybe he’s giving off some sort of musk or hormone, or simply a ‘vibe’. Your gay best friend…

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  • Emergency de-bunking! Vatican City

    The Twitterverse is suddenly agog at the news that the age of sexual consent in Vatican City is 12. That’s because Catholic priests are all pedos, right?! And yet, how can such a thing possibly be the case without having already been exposed? The problem started when this link started to get passed round: http://www.avert.org/age-of-consent.htm?12 It says the law of…

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