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Category Archives: Saturday chit-chat

The quintessential brains trust

May 12, 2012 – 6:28 pm

… Marie Curie: the only person ever to win two Nobel prizes in two sciences. I am currently in examination hell, hence my diminished substantive contributions to the blog. I will be out of gaol on May 24 (last exam) and will then take a week or so off, but I’m afraid not much more than [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in Science, Skeptics | Comments (19)

When storage gets awkward

April 28, 2012 – 6:05 am

  You know you have too many books when this starts to happen. I have been there. Judging by the literate comments from our readership, so have you. By the way, this is the weekend chit-chat thread, so feel free to natter, engage in linkitude and so on and so forth. Murdoch at Leveson, Rangers [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in Books | Comments (27)

‘Fascinatingly ugly’

March 24, 2012 – 5:38 pm

I stole this from a friend in the Australian Skeptics (thanks, Jayson!) on Facebook, but it comes from a US zoo. Which means the original image has a decent number of comments underneath where people are guessing what they are. Everything from bats to snakes to ‘some sort of weird hybrid’ until someone turns up [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in Animals, Australia | Tagged | Comments (31)

Simon Cowell’s next recording star…

February 19, 2012 – 2:32 am

… Alaska’s got talent. Mind you, I strongly suspect that Mishka the husky’s owner has fed her through Autotune, an ingenious piece of audio processing software that blends pitches to the nearest true semitone (to the exact pitch of the nearest tone in traditional equal temperament). While huskies are among the most tuneful of dogs (in part through [...]

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A-ha? Uh-huh

February 11, 2012 – 5:51 am

All the way from Pyongyang, where the hep cats of North Korea are at it again. According to Tom G. Palmer — who visited last year – they like accordion playing there, it seems. Everyone who visits gets to see a room full of girls playing the accordion, with a photo of the Maximum leader and [...]

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The Midwich Cats

January 21, 2012 – 6:44 am

On the bonnet of the damned…

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in Animals | Comments (14)

We’re on the radio…

October 15, 2011 – 5:59 pm

This week, we published Lorenzo’s cracker of a guest post on the slow demise of the Euro, and someone at ‘Aunty’ ABC must have noticed, because he’s been interviewed on the strength of it. The show in question is called ‘Counterpoint‘, and airs on Monday October 17th. The show itself starts at 16:05; Lorenzo’s segment [...]

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One view of the world…

October 9, 2011 – 2:55 am

Discuss.

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in Funnies | Comments (25)

David Cameron’s Iron Law of Twitter

October 1, 2011 – 6:15 am

In light of revelations that yet another public figure has made a twat of themselves on Twitter, here is a joke at Twitter’s (or should that be twitterers’) expense. David Cameron’s Iron Law is outlined in this video (amusing but mildly vulgar). Please feel free to chat away amiably.

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One Nation, Under CCTV

September 10, 2011 – 12:36 am

I forgot to put one of these up last week (as in, a chit-chat thread), which meant that the previous week’s Saturday chit-chat thread got rather long and out of hand. Bear with me, I am trying to get into the habit… Since this weekend is the 10th Anniversary of 9/11, rather than do a [...]

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