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Monthly Archives: January 2015
Merely Burble – I Am Just Showing My Working Out, But I Am Not Sure What the Question Is
this is not really a blog post, just some sentences I am using to try and work something out. You may want to leave now. Merely Burble. When I was young and hair my was lustrous, did I imagine that … Continue reading
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Fade To Doubt – on the final few months of touring
I am relieved that the touring is almost done. Just under 6 months to go, then I will be an annoying obstruction in my house. The first few gigs of January were sold out, then came another rejection from the … Continue reading
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Serendipity Led to a Rambling Monkey Cage on Luck and Judgment
For the first time in its recording history, we have finished recording the final episode of The Infinite Monkey Cage before the first of the series has even been broadcast. Let’s hope all the paradigms of science don’t change in … Continue reading
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Noises in Buckets – Why A Free Fringe is Important for Us All
Writing articles about the Edinburgh fringe gets earlier and earlier every year. This one is even more premature as I won’t be doing a show at this year’s festival (well, I might be up for one day and I’ll try … Continue reading
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Still Learning To be An Alien – on the stand up as stranger
Have you got to be alienated as a stand up, or merely be an alien? Not in the David Bowie/Thomas Newton, beautiful, being makes a million, becomes an alcoholic, is investigated by the secret service, and eventually has his illusory … Continue reading
I Emptied My Mind in Greenwich, but Still Couldn’t Find the Thoughts I Wanted, They Must Be Kept In Someone Else’s Head
I unpacked my head in a Greenwich pub, but still couldn’t find the thoughts I wanted, they must be kept in someone else’s head Nothing makes me believe free will is an illusion more than doing talks at Skeptics in … Continue reading
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The Rarefied Air of Savoury Curd Alternatives – a vegan blog (?)
Bored of Michael Legge viewing me from his Olympian Heights as an increasingly diminishing speck, I have decided to try to be a vegan. I will follow in the footsteps of my heroes, such as Ed Begley Jr, Weird Al … Continue reading
The Monkeys Found Themselves In Many States, and some were in Super Positions
Tonight’s Monkey Cage recording was about Quantum woo. What is woo? When does woo get quantum? When does quantum get woo? In the afternoon, we sat in the office being frivolous and facetious and and acting tomfools. As sometimes happens … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Goldacre, Brian Cox, deepak chopra, Jeff Forshaw, Sare Pascoe
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Quantum Entangled in Mangled Language
“We have been subjected to a word salad of scientific jargon”, that is what I wish I had called this blog post. The words of Richard Dawkins while debating Deepak Chopra. Earlier today, I was watching What The Bleep Do … Continue reading
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Tagged Brian Cox, Daleks, deepak chopra, Doctor Who, genesis of the daleks, quantum, Richard Dawkins, Richard Feynman
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As The Sabre Cleaved Brain from Body, He wished he’d paid more Attention to MR James
I decided not to walk through the dark woods, not because of some irrational fear of malevolent ghosts or voracious zombies, but because I might fall into a mud hole or maybe be bludgeoned by a very real axe murderer, … Continue reading
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