Who's the biggest pimp?

Not bad for a 64-year old man. It looks like he's still playing the game.

The Amazing Randi Exposing Fraudsters

Watch as the Amazing Randi exposes Uri Geller for the charlatan he is.

Here you can see him exposing the supposedly telekinetic James Hydrick. Exposing Psychic Surgery The exposed psychic (cold reader) Sylvia Browne who wrongly predicted the death of a boy who was later found alive.

from wiki James Randi (born August 7, 1928), stage name The Amazing Randi, is a stage magician and scientific skeptic best known as a debunker of pseudoscience. Born Randall James Hamilton Zwinge, in Toronto, Canada, Randi is the creator of the James Randi Educational Foundation's million dollar challenge offering a prize US$1,000,000 to anyone who can demonstrate evidence of any paranormal, supernatural or occult power or event, under test conditions agreed to by both parties. More...

Many more exposed frauds, hoaxes and paranormal events can be found at the James Randi Educational Foundation — Home Page

Configuration of the Arteries of the Head and Brain

Body Worlds Exhibition The exhibition features approximately 200 authentic human specimens, including whole bodies, plastinated individual organs and transparent body slices that have been preserved through the process of Plastination, a technique that replaces bodily fluids and fat with reactive plastics. I had already heard of and seen some pics of this exhibition some time ago, but it's still amazing. They should bring it to Holland one day!

Spotting Emotional Manipulation

This might come in handy in a world full of manipulators. Eight ways to spot them.

What is emotional manipulation? Well, emotional manipulation is a method of using words, body language and behavior for the purposes of provoking a particular reaction, getting a desired response or to just plain ol’ screw you over. If the emotional blackmailer is any good, he’ll having you offering to bend over and be fucked one more time, "anything you want dear." Lets talk about how an emotional manipulator works and how to recognize the game (because it very much IS a game) so you can reset your bullshit meter and safeguard against possible attack.

Imagine the Tenth Dimension

Yes, I know I'm fucking up the lay-out. Does it matter?

The real Das Experiment

I haven't seen this yet, but post it anyway as a bookmark and for other people who are interested. The movie Das Experiment is based on The Stanford Prison Experiment. The Stanford prison experiment was a landmark psychological study of the human response to captivity, in particular, to the real world circumstances of prison life, and the effects of imposed social roles on behavior. You can now watch a (crappy quality)report of the The Standford Prison Experiment on youtube, here. And here a better one on googlevideo, thanks to cybrbeast.

Getting Our Priorities Right

Bjørn Lomborg, the controversial author of The Skeptical Environmentalist, representing the Copenhagen Consensus.

The idea is simple, yet often neglected. When financial resources are limited you need to prioritize your effort. Everyday, from policymakers to business leaders, at all levels, priorities are made between investing in one project and not another. However, many times, and particularly at the political level, decisions on priorities are made not based on facts, science or calculations but on which issue gets the most media coverage or is most politisized. The Copenhagen Consensus approach works to improve the foundation of knowledge, to get an overview of research and facts within a given problem, so that the prioritizing of efforts to solve this problem is based on evidence and is comparable with solutions across problems.

Global warming appears not to be the highest priority.