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I’m assuming that we all know that for the Celts (as for Jews and Muslims) the day starts and ends at sunset. And, that the Celtic calendar starts with the dark half of the year which is marked by a 24 hour festival from sunset on 31st October to sunset on 1st November in which the forces of reality are at their thinnest. This New Year festival is Samhain (or similar) and was here a long time before Pope Gregory III shifted All Saints Day from May 13th and dumped it on top of the Celtic festival… Continue

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QAvkFS_cgk

In case you missed the fuss and wanted an update.

Me and Robert Fergusson
Thanks to Stewart Attwood

1% of the population have bipolar affective disorder, (the rebranded manic depression) and I‘m one of them, as was my dad and his dad before him. Statistically, there are 13 other people with bipolar on 38 minutes. I don’t know who they are and wh… Continue

The strangest thing about ASIMO – the world’s most advanced humanoid robot, courtesy of Honda– was that it filled the McEwan Hall (capacity 2,000) in Edinburgh ten times in two days.

In a preamble to ASIMO’s performance, the team (TV presenter and Professor boffin) showed film of a brie… Continue

I don’t make TV – not a boast, just a clarification of my producer/consumer credentials. I don’t have a BARB box so my viewing habits are of no direct interest to the industry. My views don’t matter, overwritten by a statistical extrapolation and left on the sofa. I do wat… Continue