QED Squeeeeee!

Well, QEDCon was as amazing as ever this year. And the pressure was off for me as I wasn't speaking. In fact, the sum total of my involvement - apart from lots of drinking and meeting and greeting old friends etc. - was appearing on the InKredulous podcast panel show with Robert Llewellyn, Andy Zaltzman and Michael 'Marsh' Marshall.

Tremendous fun and hosted brilliantly, as ever, by Andy Wilson and his saxophone. You can listen to the episode by clicking here.

 

The event was hosted excellently by magician Paul Zenon and boasted a gaggle of amazing speakers including Professor Richard Wiseman and the aforementioned Mr Llewellyn. There were also a number of speakers I was less familiar with but they were all universally interesting.

The intro video to QEDCon is always a treat every year and, for 2014, the bar was set very high indeed. But judge for yourself ...



Roll on QEDCon2015!

Photos (c) by Dave Hughes and Rob McDermott. Lots more on the QEDCon2014 Flickr stream here.

Words to live your life by

I liked this a lot. This pretty much says everything about me and how I want to live my life. And how I would love others to as well. The last line in particular struck me as so true.



It was produced by Words Engraved. Visit their site and you can see the same words in a variety of languages and voices. Inspirational and, indeed, aspirational.

What's Luck got to do with it?

I'll be doing another talk for Skeptics in the Pub on Wednesday 28th March at The Bootlegger in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire at 8pm. I'll be telling you all about 2006 - the very odd year in which I set out to see if there is a way to prove or disprove the existence of Luck. It took me the whole year to gather enough results to form any kind of a theory and I found myself doing very strange things in the name of 'science':

If that doesn't draw you in (and, let's face it, it probably won't), then I could mention that The Bootlegger always has a good selection of gravity-fed real ales from the nearby Rebellion Brewery in Marlow and OVER 100 bottled beers from all around the world. Plus, it's right opposite High Wycombe train station (Chiltern Railways) and just 40mins from Marylebone! And there will be a great crowd there from the Wycombe SITP group.

That's it. Sales pitch over.