Skeptical Spoon Bending
Posted by Greg at 01:14, 09 Jan 2009Skeptic Michael Shermer shows a few non-telekinetic ways of bending spoons and other items of cutlery.
Capt Disillusion at TAM
Posted by Greg at 23:37, 12 Oct 2008Captain Disillusion heads to 'The Amazing Meeting' to find out more about the skeptics.
Carl Sagan - A Thousand Years of Darkness
Posted by Greg at 04:17, 06 Jul 2008Carl Sagan warns that "submission to ethnic, religious or national identifications" could lead to a second Dark Ages.
Captain Disillusion: Gas Station Ghost
Posted by Greg at 02:30, 14 Mar 2008Captain Disillusion gives a good breakdown on the media whoring of the "Gas Station Ghost".
Expelled - No Intelligence Allowed
Posted by Greg at 13:29, 29 Nov 2007Extended trailer for the controversial documentary on Intelligent Design, Expelled.
The Enemies of Reason (Part 2)
Posted by Greg at 09:51, 30 Aug 2007Richard Dawkins looks at how health has become "a battleground between reason and superstition."
The Enemies of Reason (Part 1)
Posted by Greg at 23:09, 21 Aug 2007Richard Dawkins confronts what he sees as an epidemic of superstitious thinking, in his latest polemic against 'irrational thinking'.
Religion - Marcus Brigstocke
Posted by Greg at 01:29, 10 Aug 2007Marcus Brigstocke's take on fundamentalist religion. Pictures compiled and sequenced by Alien8ted.
TED Talk - Michael Shermer
Posted by Greg at 08:32, 23 May 2007Skeptic Michael Shermer giving a talk at TED, on the topic of why people believe weird things. According to Shermer, humans tend to convince ourselves to believe: We overvalue the "hits" that support our beliefs, and discount the more numerous "misses."

