The Godless Spellchecker – @GSpellchecker it is not Athiest, it is #AthEIst

Should you find yourself in need of a bit of amusement in a dull moment while waiting for a train, plane or bus, then I can highly recommend the twitter feed of the Godless Spellchecker. Why? well because this bastion of non Divine Spelling Intervention is simply hilarious, and as testament to that fact, he has over … Read more

A short horror story for Halloween

Its Halloween, so lets take a break and enjoy a scary story. The following is not a professional movie, but is instead a nice little clip make for Halloween by a non-professional (it is the YouTube blogger Cristina Rad). I like it, it is well constructed suspense in a true Hitchcock style … the title tells … Read more

A bit of fun …Messing about with Gravity

There exists a very strange place on planet earth, so weird that gravity as we know it does not appear to work as we expect.

Here is a clip by well-known skeptic, Brian Dunning, illustrating this weird anomaly. It is located within Death Valley deep inside one of the hidden canyons (Mosaic Canyon) and caught my attention because I was in that exact spot a couple of months ago myself and was quite amazed by it. Anyway, here is Brian explaining …

OK, so what is going on here, is this credible or is there something else happening? Does gravity really behave like this?

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Tim Minchin-the good book

Tim Minchin at his best … enjoy. [No long post today … I’m on the road and off to QED in Manchester] If you liked that, then pop on over to YouTube and key in his name for more of the same. If you want to know more about him … His Wikipedia page is … Read more