This is just a quick blog post to highlight the reasons for my continued absence from the blog, as my last post was more than a month ago, and I haven’t posted on a “regular” basis for several months. There are a few reasons for this,...
Topics: atheism, blog, blogs, forums, general, images, libertarianism, personal, university, websites

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Last night, Derren Brown promised to show a subliminal film that would glue a lot of us to our seats; we would literally not be able to get up. A lot of people watched, and over 500,000 of us were “stuck”, myself included. My friends Florian..
Topics: derren brown, general, humour, hypnosis, personal, science, subliminal, suggestion

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The main video event this week was dprjones‘ 24 hour blogtv charity drive in aid of Doctors without Borders. The target amount to raise was $10,000 and this was quickly surpassed during the show and reached a final total of $18,761.92. The...
Topics: belief, bible, charity, christianity, derren brown, doctors without borders, dprjones, general, humour, qualiasoup, videos, youtube thursday

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Image via WikipediaLast Wednesday, Derren Brown amazed the nation by predicting the National Lottery. On Friday night, he promised to reveal how to do the trick, and this resulted in an hour long show that demonstrated some nice mental gymnastics, but no.
Topics: bbc, derren brown, explanation, general, humour, lottery, national lottery, science, wisdom of crowds

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Well my flatmate and I are sitting astounded (still) that Derren Brown (a famous atheist skeptic & mentalist in the UK) managed to predict the National Lottery balls (all 6 of them). Here is the video:We flicked between the BBC live reading and the...
Topics: derren brown, general, lottery, national lottery, prediction, videos

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