I have to say goodbye for the moment. I am about to leave on a promotional tour of the book. When I first started this, the publishers asked me to keep a blog. For the life of me, I could not understand why I should do this. My first post was indeed entitled “The Reluctant [...]
Entries from March 2009
March 27, 2009
Did Charles Take Another Tinkle Before Blast-Off?
Billionaire software magnate, Charles Simonyi, took his second flight into space yesterday on a $35m trip to the International Space Station. He is likely to be the last space tourist for a while as they plan to increase the capacity of the space station and will not have enough room for paying passengers. One has [...]
March 26, 2009
SuperSense on Authors on Air
On April 7th (the day my book comes out!) at 3pm EST / 12 noon PST / 8pm GMT, I’ll be making a special appearance on the HarperCollins Author on Air TOP SHELF show.
For about 45 minutes I will take calls and questions from listeners– you can tune in through the web or call in [...]
March 26, 2009
First Major Review of SuperSense!
Over the coming weeks, I will not be able to blog as much as I would wish because I am off to the US to begin my promotion for the book. This has been an awful period of waiting with much grinding of teeth (I need to see the dentist) and sleepless nights wondering what [...]
March 23, 2009
A Master’s Degree In….. Creationism
Well, those of us in higher science education have long known that standards have been slipping for some time but this latest move from the creationists takes this beyond belief. Actually beyond belief and well into faith.
Texas State Representative Leo Berman has proposed House Bill 2800, which would exempt any private non-profit institution that requires [...]
March 22, 2009
Scottish UFO Confirmed
I am just working my way through Jon Ronson’s book, “The Men Who Stare At Goats,” which is all about the wacky side of the US military who invested millions of dollars into SuperSense soldiers. The ‘First Earth Battalion’ were hand-picked soldiers selected for their psychic abilities to remote view enemy installations and kill at [...]
March 19, 2009
German Blood Sausage
Two German Air Force sergeants are currently facing a court martial for preparing sausages made from their own blood based on one of their grandmother’s old recipes. According to the report, they had plans to develop a line of blood sausages using friends and comrades. Apparently the scheme only came to light when a fellow [...]
March 18, 2009
How the Hell Did They Do That?
I am just back from my Cambridge conference and learned many amazing things from some incredible minds. But it was this demonstration shown by philosopher Simon Blackburn as an example of seeing is not believing that left me astounded.
It will take me a few days to get back into the swing [...]
March 14, 2009
You’ll Never Hear This Again Without Thinking Tuna
I have to go and strut my stuff at the Beliefs and Reason conference that I have organized in Trinity College, Cambridge. It is a major event for me as I have invited some of my personal heroes and the audience has some heavyweight intellectuals. Daunting stuff. I will be gone for a few days [...]
March 13, 2009
Obama Warns of Alien Invasion
With Bush, it was Zombies, but we now discover President Obama is similarly warning of invasion but this time from aliens. Canadian speech recognition expert and former CBS radio producer Jon Kelly has subjected a recording of Barack Obama’s inaugural address on the steps on the U.S. capitol on January 20, 2009 to reverse speech analysis. This is [...]
