A Stephen-Haunted World
In keeping with my recent embrace of the Skeptical movement, I've stumbled upon this little who's-who rubrick, which, for the sake of my forever unplacated ego, I will fill out.Occupation:StudentCurrently Residing in:Peterborough, OntPast Residences: Midland, LondonLikes:guitar, piano, singing, debate, beer, whisky, Super Mario, my catDislikes:
people who wear shirts with pithy sayings, when its so cold my nosehairs freeze, stepping bare-foot in cat vomit, people who reek of cigarette smoke and then sit next to me in lecture
Favorite Food(s):
pork chops, pizza, chicken, and all things pasta
Favorite Book(s):
Slaughterhouse Five, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, God is Not Great, the Lord of the Rings, Horatio Hornblower, Hocus Pocus, Childhood's End, Demon-Haunted World
Favorite Movie(s):
Lord of the Rings, the Godfather, L.A. Confidential, Bullworth, Star Wars
Favorite TV Show(s): Mr. Show, Arrested Development, Futurama, The Daily Show, The Colbert ReportFavorite Music:
Eric Clapton, The Beatles, B.B. King, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, We Are Scientists, Tom Waits
Drink/Smoke:Yes/cigars, rarelyMost respected scientists/skeptics: Living: Eugenie Scott, Steven Novella, Stephen Hawking. Dead: Stephen Jay Gould, Carl SaganBest Scientific Discovery: cloud of anti-matter 10,000 light-years in diameter at the centre of our galaxyMost interesting area of science: Cosmology, nanotechnologyMost disliked pseudoscientific/paranormal claim: Astrology, psychicsMost disliked pseudoscientific/paranormal proponent: Kevin Trudeau, Sylvia BrowneSpace Travel, Humans or Robots? humans....duh.Favorite website: www.theonion.com, www.skepdic.com Podcasts you listen to:
The Skeptics Guide to the Universe, SModcast
Dumbest thing you've ever heard:
"Its Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve"....that says a lot more about these douchbags than I ever could make fun of them for.
When and how did you become a skeptic:
Like most people, I stumbled upon it. Having been "skeptically-minded", I naturally gravitated towards like-minded activites/books. Eventually I realized there was a massive community of people who passionatley care about the same things I do in a way that I just don't see at university. It started with an early-university atheist interest, and the dominos just kinda fell easily after that: creationism, intelligent design, pseudo-science, astrology, psychics, psychic healing, faith healing, homeopathy, naturopathy.....the sequence is quite logical really, how I came to loathe these practices.
What you would like to see science achieve before you die:Humans setting foot on Mars.What would you like to accomplish before you die:
Publish a book (then set foot on Mars)
And that, my friends, is for my ego.
people who wear shirts with pithy sayings, when its so cold my nosehairs freeze, stepping bare-foot in cat vomit, people who reek of cigarette smoke and then sit next to me in lecture
Favorite Food(s):
pork chops, pizza, chicken, and all things pasta
Favorite Book(s):
Slaughterhouse Five, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, God is Not Great, the Lord of the Rings, Horatio Hornblower, Hocus Pocus, Childhood's End, Demon-Haunted World
Favorite Movie(s):
Lord of the Rings, the Godfather, L.A. Confidential, Bullworth, Star Wars
Favorite TV Show(s): Mr. Show, Arrested Development, Futurama, The Daily Show, The Colbert ReportFavorite Music:
Eric Clapton, The Beatles, B.B. King, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, We Are Scientists, Tom Waits
Drink/Smoke:Yes/cigars, rarelyMost respected scientists/skeptics: Living: Eugenie Scott, Steven Novella, Stephen Hawking. Dead: Stephen Jay Gould, Carl SaganBest Scientific Discovery: cloud of anti-matter 10,000 light-years in diameter at the centre of our galaxyMost interesting area of science: Cosmology, nanotechnologyMost disliked pseudoscientific/paranormal claim: Astrology, psychicsMost disliked pseudoscientific/paranormal proponent: Kevin Trudeau, Sylvia BrowneSpace Travel, Humans or Robots? humans....duh.Favorite website: www.theonion.com, www.skepdic.com Podcasts you listen to:
The Skeptics Guide to the Universe, SModcast
Dumbest thing you've ever heard:
"Its Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve"....that says a lot more about these douchbags than I ever could make fun of them for.
When and how did you become a skeptic:
Like most people, I stumbled upon it. Having been "skeptically-minded", I naturally gravitated towards like-minded activites/books. Eventually I realized there was a massive community of people who passionatley care about the same things I do in a way that I just don't see at university. It started with an early-university atheist interest, and the dominos just kinda fell easily after that: creationism, intelligent design, pseudo-science, astrology, psychics, psychic healing, faith healing, homeopathy, naturopathy.....the sequence is quite logical really, how I came to loathe these practices.
What you would like to see science achieve before you die:Humans setting foot on Mars.What would you like to accomplish before you die:
Publish a book (then set foot on Mars)
And that, my friends, is for my ego.