Douglas Adams on Parrots the Universe and Everything, a talk he gave on his trek all over the globe looking for interesting species . . . given at UCSB recorded shortly before his death. If you are reading this via a stream without the video, go to https://briandavidphillips.net/2010/03/adams.html to enjoy the full talk. From the…

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As his Dark Materials series of novels pretty much offended a whole bunch of conservative stalwarts of the Catholic Church, it's no surprise that Philip Pulluman's newest novel The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ is causing some controversy as well. The new novel, which explores the scifi dark doppleganger motif by telling a…

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So, as anyone who has read this blog for any amount of time is aware, hypnosis can't be used to instantly and easily change a mild mannered milquetoast into a hardened criminal . . . governments spent a lot of money on finding out that as a Manchurian Candidate Maker, hypnosis really doesn't stack up…

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