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Monday, 31 January 2011

Seriously funny

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Bertrand Russell once said "people often mistakenly suppose that ‘humorous’ and ‘serious’ are antonyms. They’re not. ‘Humorous’ and ‘...
Sunday, 30 January 2011

Motherly love

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Couldn't resist this rdiculously anthropomorphic image!
Saturday, 29 January 2011

Discrimination in Afghanistan?

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A sign in a shop window read... ''WE WOULD RATHER SERVE 500 TALIBAN THAN 1 BRITISH SOLDIER'' Who says UNDERTAKERS have n...
Friday, 28 January 2011

Dyslexia

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Q.  How does it change many dyslexics to take a light bulb? (A.  Just read the question carefully this time and smile!  The smile is ...
Thursday, 27 January 2011

Burning the Qu'ran is out

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The only way to get the true meaning of the Qu'ran is to read it in Arabic.  So if you burn a copy of the Koran in English, does it coun...
Wednesday, 26 January 2011

Astrologers' predictions fail to impress

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The recent furore about Professor Brian Cox and Dara O'Briain being suitably honest and straight-forward about astrology leads me to ask...
Tuesday, 25 January 2011

Burns night celebrated with a sign

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To celebrate Burns night, this is a real road sign from Scotland.  (Photoshop free zone!) Peiness is not far from Portree on the beaut...
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Monday, 24 January 2011

No smoke without mirrors

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I often wondered whether this is just silly. In many walks of life I think it is true to say that "There is no smoke without mirror...
Sunday, 23 January 2011

Fusion costs less than peanuts!

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To continue yesterday's theme here's a thought.  "Fusion research costs peanuts".  I have often heard people ask why such ...
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Saturday, 22 January 2011

All the World's Tokamaks

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Here is an impressive list of the tokamaks built all over the world during the last 50+ years! All-the-World's Tokamaks .  Note the c...
Friday, 21 January 2011

Motto for the French Navy?

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A l'eau, c'est l'heure! (Say it out loud to yourself.)
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Thursday, 20 January 2011

Medieval beliefs perpetuated

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In Holland, the cradle of the Enlightenment, the last execution for witchcraft took place in 1610; in England 1684; America 1692; France 174...
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The Baroness Warsi debate rages

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I heard 30 minutes of BBC Radio 4's (normally rational) 'Today' programme this morning. During that time, the only respite fro...
Wednesday, 19 January 2011

Allodoxaphobia

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This is a good word for someone starting on a new blog!  It means "the fear of other people's opinions" or "the fear of g...
Tuesday, 18 January 2011

Philosophy in the real world

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The wise and grandfatherly philosopher, Daniel C Dennett, joked about a philosopher saying "We know it is possible in practice.  We are...
Monday, 17 January 2011

Why would this bother a creationist?

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Christmas cracker joke

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Q.  What kind of cheese would you use to coax a bear out of its den? A.  Camembert
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Sunday, 16 January 2011

Platitude of the Day

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BBC Radio 4 programmes are typically full of intelligent discussion and in the UK it is a great source of news in the morning. One regular...
Saturday, 15 January 2011

Schumann resonances and anti-matter

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The Schumann resonances (SR) are a set of spectrum peaks in the extremely low frequency (ELF) portion of the Earth's electromagnetic fie...

A first!

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A first for me!  I managed to subscribe a new link to www.richarddawkins.net .  It is the one about the thunderstorms producing anti-matter.