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Tuesday, 7 February 2012

Was Douglas Adams right about the mice?

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Cartoon mice might have been singing to us for a few decades. But a recent finding suggests that real mice sing to each other too and tha...
Monday, 6 February 2012

Jihad against dogs

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One of the things that I found most trying about Christmas Day last year was the presence of a Golden Retriever.  This lovely-natured dog be...
Sunday, 5 February 2012

. . . the 'he' is always lower case!

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Never having been a great fan of Steve Martin, I was surprised to hear this entertaining song. The link was kindly contributed by regular r...
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Saturday, 4 February 2012

Things Christians Say, Part 1 - The Fool

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A weekly series of responses to the things christians say to atheists, based on the video reproduced here on 30th January 2012 .  The aim is...
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Friday, 3 February 2012

Clarity about the Scots - and 1066

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The classic historical parody, 1066 and All That   carries an "Important Note" The Scots (originally Irish, but by now Scotch)...
Thursday, 2 February 2012

Everyone is searching . . .

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I run Google Analytics on the Something Surprising blog and it tells me a bit about how my visitors found me.  Strangely enough, I even bel...
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Wednesday, 1 February 2012

Don't be so negative!

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As a fellow skeptic, ( are you? ), have you ever been irritated by some supercilious twit telling you Don't be so negative! Usually i...
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Tuesday, 31 January 2012

Nobeliefs.com - worth a a visit

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Sometimes you come across a site that achieves many of the things that you always thought you might strive towards.  Although tempting to be...
Monday, 30 January 2012

Things Christians say

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I came across this video recently and found it both insightful and delightfully presented by a lady who should be a professional actress.  (...
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Celebrate honour among thieves!

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If you read Up with which WE will not put on Saturday, and even one of you signed the petition linked from there, then we can each feel jus...
Sunday, 29 January 2012

Chimps complain that their links are missing

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We have all heard the Victorian term ' the missing link ' used by anti-evolution campaigners and we have all heard it used as a puer...
Saturday, 28 January 2012

Up with which WE will not put!

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Following on from yesterday's dose of humorous prepositional pedantry , here is an example of one thing ' up with which we will not...
Friday, 27 January 2012

Up with which I will not put!

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First reported in Plain Words (1948) by Sir Ernest Gowers, it is said that Winston Churchill once made this marginal comment against a sente...
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Thursday, 26 January 2012

Cognitive Dissonance

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'Cognitive dissonance' is a term that I hear surprisingly often these days. It is sometimes described as the discomfort we feel wh...

Protection from ridicule

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Have you heard about the fuss that erupted in London a couple of weeks ago?  It was all about the use of a Jesus and Mo cartoon on a poster...
Wednesday, 25 January 2012

After Independence - civil war?

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Let's assume that Scotland does get independence from UK within the next few years.  That would be great from the English perspective.  ...
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Tuesday, 24 January 2012

Twenty Twelve

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At last the new millennium is establish in speech!  Ever since the beginning of the century people in England have been divided. Initially...
Monday, 23 January 2012

Every colandar is really a bowl

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Among the geological wonders of New Zealand, the Moeraki Boulders ( see Wikipedia article ) are surprisingly spherical in shape. See this ...
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Make your computer monitor into a mirror

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I happened across a silly question while surfing the web "Does anyone know if it's possible to use a background that would essen...
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Sunday, 22 January 2012

More about 'Asherah - wife of Yahweh'

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This is an unusual post today - drawing together some interesting feedback from an earlier article and a bit of a plug for the Reddit commun...
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