25 March 2013

Competition: Win Derren Brown: Svengali on DVD

To celebrate the release of Derren Brown: Svengali on DVD on April 1st, we have a great competition for you, and 2 copies on DVD to give away!

Synopsis:

Derren Brown presents the truly magical, award-winning theatre show that won him the 2012 Olivier Award for Best Entertainment.

The master persuader and entertainer extracts secret confessions from the audience, paints an extraordinary portrait, and has an audience member possessed by a two-hundred year automaton.


Win This:


For your chance to win just answer the following question... 

Which award did Derren receive for this show?

 

To enter Email us with your answer, along with your name and address. 

When the competition ends as indictated on this page, any and all entries received after this point will not count and emails blacklisted due to not checking this page first.


Winners will be chosen randomly and will be informed via email.

23 March 2013

The Randi Show - Coincidence

Randi tells the tale of a very coincidental elephant sighting and why it's so easy for laypeople to assign paranormal cause to random events that seem suspiciously contrived.

20 March 2013

Tim Farley - "Building Internet Tools for Skeptics" - TAM 6

Tim Farley, JREF research fellow and founder of WhatsTheHarm.net, talks at TAM 6 about using web 2.0 tools to promote and advance skeptical outreach.

7 March 2013

Nadia Sawalha Homeopath advocate!


I have always liked Nadia Sawalha, there is a couple of main reasons why, but I have always liked her.

And then out of nowhere she goes and makes a really really dumb admission on Twitter.

Now I have to add her to that list of dumb celebrities who have no clue what the real world is all about!

For anyone who still doubts the dangers of Homeopathy please check out the site of my good friends whatstheharm.net


28 February 2013

Neil DeGrasse Tyson - TAM 6

From The Amaz!ng Meeting 6 in Las Vegas, NV. Keynote address by Neil DeGrasse Tyson.




Neil deGrasse Tyson (born October 5, 1958) is an American astrophysicist and science communicator. He is currently the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space and a research associate in the department of astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History.

From 2006 to 2011 he hosted the educational science television show NOVA ScienceNow on PBS and has been a frequent guest on The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Real Time with Bill Maher, and Jeopardy!. It was announced on August 5, 2011, that Tyson will be hosting a new sequel to Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A Personal Voyage television series.