Space invaders, Eclipses (or is it Eclipsii?), nutters, threats to silence Members of Parliament, Lego, a quiz, threats to silence authors, history, success, failure and Pi the musical; this week's round-up has it all and much, much, more. Don't take my word for it though, read on:
- We all know the incredulous sceptic and the alt med nutter; well @noodlemaz turns her attention to the well-meaning person that foists the latest ‘miracle cure’ on their sick relative out of concern in this insightful blog post.
- @hapsci doesn’t like the term ‘Scientist’, why could that possibly be I hear you ask? Luckily, she explains all here.
- Director of the Society of Homeopaths takes legal action against author of book charting the rise of the anti-vaccination movement resulting in sentences having to be removed from the book, grrr!. @lecanardnoir tells us all about it.
- The BBC says a quarter of 14 year-olds can’t tell the difference between Marie Curie and Mariah Carey, they ask if you can do any better in this scientist quiz.
- Wirral NHS had an open meeting discussing funding of homeopathy in the region. Some of the Merseyside Skeptics attended, and so did some homeopaths. They got on swimmingly.
- The Head of the Research Council UK (RCUK) Strategy Unit gave a presentation on RCUK strategy post Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR). Here’s an overview by @beck_smith.
- Do not question the Murdoch press, it won’t be forgotten. According to Chris Bryant MP, MPs were "warned off" pursuing the phone-hacking scandal in Parliament as part of a cover-up. Read about it here.
- “Can you warn the audience there will be real maths and fast talking in my presentation?” Oliver Humpage - A Beautiful Equation
- From the Guardian, the history of Microbiology...in lego.
- ‘Space invader stairway’ Nice bit of pareidolia from the Faces in Places blog. @faces_in_places
- A partial solar eclipse on March 4, 2011 as seen from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory! Watch as the Moon slips in front of the face of the Sun then appears to turn round and go back.
- The one and only @kashfarooq wrote a post for our humble blog about the Framing effect and bad decision making. Is he really going to let the bankers off the hook and blame evolution for the financial collapse?
- Birmingham Skeptics' very own in house God, @paddyrex, presents Songs from the Scientific Cabaret
“The most impressive way to not get laid”
See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.
That was this week, the same week that Matt Lodder (@mattlodder) came to The Victoria in Birmingham and presented a sceptical look at Western Media Perceptions of Tattoos. The same week that Adam Kay from the Amateur Transplants (@amateuradam) sang some songs and made us laugh. What will next week have in store?
This was put together by Paul Bryant (@thebigyeti) with lots of help from Chris Richardson (@ChristHenEck).
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