• Guest Article #6 – Bruce Hood

    I’m extremely pleased and excited that Bruce Hood has agreed to write an article for Skepchick, because his book Supersense is my current number one must-read for skeptics. The reason for that is simple: it has much-needed insight into our sense of the supernatural and a position that skeptics don’t always acknowledge – that ‘woo’ thinking is innate. If you…

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  • Penguin Murder

    Can you murder a penguin? Really? The BBC news team seem to think so. Penguin Murders Prompt Sniper Aid, proclaims the headline. I don’t generally enjoy falling back on dictionary definitions of things, but as my own understanding of the word murder generally involves human beings, I had to go see what consensus says. Consensus agrees. The unlawful killing of…

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  • My really lazy review of Pixar’s ‘Up’

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  • Doctor Woo

    I don’t usually share my dreams, although I have vivid ones nightly. Dream interpretatation is pointless – the ‘see the future’ side is nonsense and the ‘insight into your subconcious’ part is…well, I don’t know if it’s meaningful but my dreams tend to be a jumble of things I’ve done and seen that day, mixed in with all the arts…

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  • “Medically” proven?

    I get an email every month about new beauty products from a spa I used to visit. I haven’t unsubscribed because it’s always a fun read and sometimes gives me fodder for Skepchick articles. However, today’s email is out of my league. Can someone please enlighten me about what this might mean? The good news is that there is really…

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  • Brittania Rules!

    Brits are making me proud at the moment. No, not because the members of our government have been fiddling their expenses (while we have a Royal Family, I can’t bring myself to care about some politician claiming for moat-cleaning. Drop, ocean). It’s because of YOU LOT. Skeptics. Actually, that’s ‘us lot’ because I’m one of ’em. These past few weeks…

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  • Excellent Wiseman Interview, and TAM London

    I haven’t posted in a few weeks because, amongst other things, I’m busy organising TAM London on behalf of JREF. The official website is now live at www.tamlondon.org, although registration is not yet open (join the mailing list for notification of when it is). Confirmed speakers include Richard Dawkins, Adam Savage, Jon Ronson, and many others, including of course Randi…

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  • Three Albums for the Moody

      Life is stressful and excellent in equal measures, and I realised recently that that also describes some of my favourite albums. I believe myself to be melodramatic, having extreme high joy times and equally extreme down days (a shade bi-polar perhaps, but I’m high-functioning and fun so I don’t think I need to worry). My mood can change at…

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