I just recently learned about Tim Minchin. He has to be one of the best atheistic musicians out there. I still haven’t heard anything of his that I don’t absolutely love. Here is a YouTube video of his beat poem, Storm. Tell me that this isn’t absolutely brilliant.
Well, I’ve had several ideas mulling around in my head, and I think they’ve reached the point where I’m ready to start actually working on them. I’ve had two ideas for regular articles: a “What if?” column, and a column of “Maple for Mythbusters”. The first column will be articles where I look at different ideas and say “What if this idea were real? What would it mean?” The first one is going to look at homeopathy, and make the assumption that it is real. Starting there, what else do we have to accept, by logic, due to accepting that homeopathy is real. I’m going to look at a different idea for each article. The second column is going to look at different experiments that the Mythbusters have done and see how we can use Maple to do some scientific computations around those experiments. I really like Maple, and I think more people should be supporting a Canadian made product.
These two columns are going to run on alternate weeks, starting with “What if?” this Friday. If you have any ideas for either column, things you’d like to see covered, please let me know.
I don’t know if you’ve ever listened to the Skeptoid podcast, but Brian Dunning produces it. You can find it on iTunes and at skeptoid.com. He has recently produced a video called Here Be Dragons. This video is an amazing introduction to skeptical thinking, and ways in which thinking can go wrong. This should be mandatory viewing for everyone. You can get it from the skeptoid site, or from it’s own site at herebedragons.com. I hope everyone who reads this goes out and watches this video.
The latest episode of Skepticality is out and can be found at www.skepticality.com. Reviews of the new Ben Stein movie, Expelled, are discussed with Dawkins, Shermer and others. If you want to see more about the movie, check out www.expelledexposed.com. I think I may need to see this, if I can avoid throwing something through the TV.
Well, this challenge should have completely destroyed belief in Tantra. The most powerful Tantrik in India was challenged to destroy a skeptic. Of course he was an utter failure. But somehow, I predict that there will be just as much belief in Tantra as before. Check out this write up on it.