Connor Davidson

Censorship in the UK: Tom Six’s The Human Centipede 2 Banned by BBFC. A Criticism of Censorship

NOTES The following article may be disturbing to some readers. If you are easily disturbed by descriptions and discussion of horror films, then I would advise you not to continue. The piece is written with the intention of promoting critical discussion on film censorship. The article uses the Human Centipede as a current... (posted by Connor 236 days 15 hours ago.)

Professor Walter Lewin from MIT Open Courseware

Those who have been directed from a search engine will be familiar with Walter Lewin, the MIT physics professor, and his work. You probably think he is wonderful, you’re most likely full of praise for his lectures, you may even help cram his in-box with fan mail. Despite the fact that this man fails as a physics professor. Were physics professors not supposed to be the... (posted by Connor 283 days 11 hours ago.)

Witch Hunts Are Not a Thing of the Past: Witch Hunts In Africa and the Horror of the Video

Witch hunting conjures up images of dirty, smelly, plague infested, god fearing medieval peasantry living in a pre-enlightenment age. Whenever you read about witch hunts in history books you often read things like “ Many historians state that the final execution of a witch in Europe occurred in Switzerland on 17 June 1782 ”... (posted by Connor 1 year 41 days ago.)

Deception Inc – The Simplicity of Fooling the Brain and how to Prevent Being Tricked

The brain is the most complex computer like system that we know of. It’s made up of billions upon billions of neurons forming millions of connections. The brain carries out its enormously complex task of decoding the millions of items of stimuli we encounter and making sense of the ever changing nature of our surroundings. Our brain is... (posted by Connor 1 year 51 days ago.)

The Secret To Getting a Huge Twitter Following Revealed: My Tips To Get Loads of Pointless Followers

Just a quick little article for you all. I've not had much time to write lately. Hopefully I'll be back with longer articles soon. Two hundred and twenty three days ago I began an experiment. I decided to set up a twitter account that was absolutely dreadful, spammy and unbelievable dull. So bad that I won’t... (posted by Connor 1 year 157 days ago.)

Our Obsession with Now Or Then: Narrow Views of Music, Film and Television.

I suspect that you have probably noticed that the majority of people (yourself a possible inclusion) tend to watch films and television that are only a few years old. Younger people tend to listen to new music and older people tend to fall hopelessly behind by listening to the music of their youth sixty years on. The vast majority of people I have... (posted by Connor 1 year 179 days ago.)

Tips for Writers and Authors – Microsoft Word AutoCorrect Options for Predictive Writing in 2007

Yesterday I was flicking around some websites that have tips for authors. I found a fantastic one in the Guardian ( see here ) and one of the tips was to use AutoCorrect options to speed up typing. Naturally, I found out how to set it up and then, even more naturally, decided to hold up work on my book to write about it. That, I... (posted by Connor 1 year 198 days ago.)

Mark Twain has a New Book: One Century On His Full Memoirs / Autobiography are To Be Published

Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) is dead. Long dead in-fact . Just over one hundred years dead. So dead that only a handful of people alive today could have possibly heard the news on the day that he died. But he’s alive. His work clearly lives on: who has not heard of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn? Wonderfully, one... (posted by Connor 1 year 207 days ago.)