Archive for June, 2010
Question of The Week: What Woo Would Make Someone Undateable?
Posted by Colin H in Fun Stuff, Question of the Week on June 4, 2010
In the second to last episode of Skeptics With a K we asked you, our loyal listeners, to suggest some Questions of The Week for us. You might think that we were just being lazy, and you would probably be right, but it doesn’t hurt to have a bit of interactivity with all of you unseen listeners out there. It makes us feel loved and needed.
The best suggestion we received was from regular listener Stoko, so without further ado here is this week’s Question of The Week, courtesy of Stoko:
What Woo Would Make Someone Undateable?
What level of woo would it take for you to refuse to date someone? Does it bother you at all? Maybe it’s just particular areas of woo: belief in psychics might not bother some people, while belief in god might send them running the other way. Maybe your partner pops homeopathy pills on a regular basis and it’s just an adorable quirk. At what point on the scale of woo would someone become undateable to you?
Whatever your answer, let us know.
Don’t forget, our call for your suggestions for future Questions of The Week is still open. Feel free to leave your suggestions here, or send them to podcast@merseysideskeptics.org.uk. If it’s a good suggestion, we’ll use it.
Skeptics with a K – Episode #023
Posted by Mike in Podcast, Skeptics with a K on June 3, 2010
Acupuncture in Vietnam, ghosts and homeopathy, psychic pet detectives and the Man with the Golden Nose. Plus the horrors of the Evian factory, Ice Cream Man Lawyers and the Blessed Virgin Mary.
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Bad PR: The Huge Weekend That Never Was
Posted by Marsh in Bad PR, Flat Earth News, Media on June 2, 2010
Put aside those petty squabbles in the pub, lay to rest your arguments about tiny flags and sportswear bans and stop worrying about how it’s Political-Correctness-gone-mad-next-they’ll-have-us-all-speaking-bloody-Muslim-or-something, because it’s now officially official – England is the most ‘footie’ mad country in the world. It’s true, we’re number 1. We love the whole footie thing, we do. Can’t get enough of it. Mad for it. Footie and England, sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G and all that. It’s official.
Well, The Sun says it’s official, anyway:
Official: England Is Footie Mad
ENGLAND is the most football-mad country in the world, a study has found.
Research revealed English blokes spend more time watching, playing, reading and talking about the beautiful game than anywhere else on the planet. – Source: The Sun
Yep, they’ve got research to back that up. Probably research done by boffins. Probably zany boffins, who have formulas for the perfect cup of tea, or the perfect shave, or the perfect cliché involving zany boffins.
The study found a typical soccer fan watches football — including highlights — for two hours and 22 minutes every week.
They also spend 28 minutes each day chin-wagging about the latest results, tackles, goals or transfer gossip.
In second place was Thailand, where men spend three hours talking about the sport, followed by three-time World Cup winners Brazil in third. - Source: The Sun
Now, I know you lot. You’re a skeptical lot. And this is BadPR, so I know what you’re thinking – who benefits from this? Well, damn you and your cynicism, I’ve no idea what you could possibly mean. Read the rest of this entry »
What Is It? #13
Last week, we asked you what this picture was:
We got some interesting answers for this one. Gittins suggested it was the design for a pair of socks that he had bought from Primark. It isn’t, although I think I have a pair of the same socks he’s talking about. Nigel put forward that it was an aerial view of a field of genetically engineered plants, while Rob thought that it might be a piece of tribal art, the bit on the right being a hand, the left being the side of a face.
All wrong, I’m afraid, although I like the tribal art answer. Closer was Jon D’s contribution, which suggested it was a nano-motor of some kind. Closest of all though, close enough in fact to call it a win, was Michael Gray’s answer:
“An etched silicon circuit.”
The picture is of a silicon tower complex at a height of 100 nm. It is a test piece for new semiconductor designs. So there you go! If we had a prize, it would go to Mr Gray.
Right, we’ve another off the wall offering for you this week. It’s quite a different picture from the last one. We like to keep things fresh!
You all know the game by now: what are we looking at in the picture below?
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