Tim Minchin
I love the way this tune roles of the tongue. Made me laugh (and speaks so much to the horrific non-believer inside me).
Internet Addiction
For those of you who spend way too much time at your computer, can’t stop spending on ebay or have the bizzare requirement to email us up to 75 times a day with your personal problems we would like to point you to THIS site. P.S. Derren is not available to cure any addictions at any price.
BBC radio interview
This is an pre-blog / old interview from May 08 but a few of you won’t know this. It’s about Derren’s online habits.
Smiles and scowls ‘in our genes’
The facial expressions we make to show or hide our emotions are hardwired into our brains rather than learned during life, a study has concluded. Blind and sighted athletes made the same expressions when they won and lost, US researchers found.
This, the study reported in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology study suggests, meant the expressions were not picked up by watching others. The researchers believe they could be remnants of evolutionary history. However, the study at San Francisco State University provides some of the strongest evidence yet to support it.
BBC. (Thanks Katherine)
7 Tips for dealing with Derren Brown
This is old but I have been sent it many times now so I’ll repost for those of you who haven’t seen it before.
(Thanks Michelle)
Brain trainer toilet roll
for people who really take their time. (Thanks Greetje)
Thor available for home security systems
An intruder received a taste of divine reckoning as he was chased from the Edinburgh flat he was breaking into by a man dressed as the Norse god Thor.
The housebreaker leapt from the first-floor window of the building to escape Torvald Alexander who was dressed-up for a New Year’s fancy dress party. Mr Alexander, 39, said the man may have been intimidated by the costume he made of the god of thunder out of tin foil. The intruder did not manage to take anything from the flat in Inverleith.
HAPPY NEW YEAR
Hope you have all had a delightful one. Just wanted to let you know that we’ve just been told the transmission date for ‘Evening of Wonders’: it’s Tuesday 13th January, 10pm, C4. I hope you enjoy it: it was very nicely filmed.
My home Internet has a habit of dying every night and needing a complete re-set, so this is from my iphone: I shall post more when all is up and running again. But happy New Year.
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