So, Austrian physicists have found an interesting property of water. Anyone care to guess how long until homeopaths try to use this research to justify the ‘memory of water’ effect? For a good overview of all the latest woo in the subject of the memory of water, this article at Homunculus is an excellent place [...]
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Texas Gunpowder
In the UK, pepper spray is classified as a firearm: In the United Kingdom, “Any weapon of whatever description designed or adapted for the discharge of any noxious liquid, gas or other thing” is classed as a section 5 firearm (Firearms Act 1968). The same act covers other prohibited weapons such as automatic firearms and [...]
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Marcus Brigstocke’s take on religion
I know I’m hopelessly — like a couple of months — late to post these things, so I won’t even try to come up with a clever excuse. Just treat them as my private bookmarks. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/UY-ZrwFwLQg" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]
I’ve got proof, ’cause I believe
Roy Zimmerman is a genius. Via Retrospectacle: [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/uIwiPsgRrOs" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] My added value? The lyrics are here.
New phone, new content
I just got my N95 today. I’ve set up the blog to automatically put up photos and videos I send it. Look out for some more multimedia in the future.
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Who needs Occam when you have Jesus’ razor?
Halfway There provides a wonderful commentary on the Research Challenge Contest ‘winners’. My favourite quote from one of the papers: Many evolutionists are recognizing the problems with these theories that attempt to explain cells’ irreducible complexity. An infinitely intelligent Designer must have created these cells. That Creator and Designer is Jesus. Let me paraphrase. I [...]
Mrs Postie is an idiot
You know how on the telly everyone in the village knows their postman by name? I’m getting really fed up with the Royal Mail. These days (and it’s not just after the strikes) I often get my mail delivered once or twice a week. On several occasions I have received domestic letters three weeks after [...]
Rise and fly ye English language
I was going to ask why the word exply doesn’t exist but, apparently, it does. Well, almost anyway. P.S. The title actually happens to be in trochaic tetrameter. That’s just as well as it’s a rough translation from Finnish.