Page 1 of Connor Davidson's writing

1. Spider Myths: We Eat Eight Spiders a Year, Lisa Holst and PC Professional Magazine This is an interesting fact for the simple reason that it is not a fact. It is total nonsense. Whenever you hear an extraordinary fact like this you should automatically think how do they know this? Firstly, do you reasonable expect that a... (posted by Connor 3 days 12 hours ago.)

2. Two Solutions to the Mirror Reversal Problem: Why Does a Mirror Reverse an Image? If you are sufficiently observant and inquisitive you will have noticed that when you look in a mirror right and left are reversed but up and down are not. For example look at Groucho’s raised hand. His hand is on the right but in the mirror... (posted by Connor 8 days 17 hours ago.)

3. My Current Philosophy of Philosophies Part 1: Civility and Offense with Regard to Atheism. You may be wondering why I titled this essay “My Current Philosophy” and not “My Philosophy”. The reason for this is that I know my views are dynamic. Since I am constantly leaning I am forced to constantly revise and... (posted by Connor 18 days 12 hours ago.)

4. How Judge Judy Works: Who Pays, is Judge Judy a Real Judge and How Does Arbitration Work? Judge Judy is among the most successful television programs of all time and has been repeatedly cited as attracting around 10 million viewers daily in its international syndication. At one point (season 4) Judge Judy was beating Oprah. But how... (posted by Connor 25 days 21 hours ago.)

5. Geek Math Clock Explained with Cheat Sheet and How To Read a Binary Clock For several years I’ve puzzled over the famous Geek clock (pictured below) slowly trying to work out what all of the symbols mean and how they correspond to the time they point to. As I moved up in maths and started out in engineering it... (posted by Connor 40 days 14 hours ago.)

6. Advice for your First Time Drinking: Alcohol Myths Debunked, Stories, Units and General Musings Let me take you back a while to the first time I had a proper drink. At this point I’m 18, just starting University and standing in the alcohol isle in Tesco. I am clearheaded, sober, and thinking perfectly clearly. I pick up a bottle of... (posted by Connor 51 days 9 hours ago.)

7. Innie or Outie? The question of whether I am an Innie or an Outie is a surprisingly complex question. It would be a ludicrous over simplification to simply say introvert or extrovert. I will say with absolute certainty that I am somewhere between JD Salinger and... (posted by Connor 96 days 12 hours ago.)

8. 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... (posted by Connor 344 days 21 hours ago.)

9. 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... (posted by Connor 1 year 26 days ago.)

10. 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... (posted by Connor 1 year 149 days ago.)

11. 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... (posted by Connor 1 year 159 days ago.)

12. 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... (posted by Connor 1 year 265 days ago.)

13. 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... (posted by Connor 1 year 287 days ago.)

14. 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... (posted by Connor 1 year 306 days ago.)

15. 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... (posted by Connor 1 year 315 days ago.)

16. How to Travel Back in Time Without a Time Machine Oh, the exuberance of viewing an age gone by. The wonder of turning back the sands of time and watching the pyramids being built. Witnessing the rise and fall of great civilizations, great armies, great leaders and great thinkers. What a romantic... (posted by Connor 1 year 341 days ago.)

17. Proof that the Earth is not not Billions of Years old and Young Earth is Wrong Please dont leave me! Wont you please stay for a proverbial cup of tea as I present my case? I promise I will be niceish and wont force anything on you - I would just like a minute of your time to present the scientific case for the age of the... (posted by Connor 1 year 360 days ago.)

18. Yet Another Anti-Gay Leader is accused of being Gay. George Rekers' Rent Boy: The Ironic Hypocrisy I would like to start this article off in the words of Roy Zimmerman: " Ted Haggard is completely heterosexual and Larry Craig is completely heterosexual and Mark Foley is completely heterosexual and Bob Allen is completely heterosexual and Jim... (posted by Connor 2 years 9 days ago.)

19. Eccentrics and Eccentricity: Definition, Famous Eccentrics, Benefits and Characteristics Let's start with: what on Mars or any other bodies of mass, which are not the Earth (can't have clichs now can we?), is eccentricity and what the duck is an eccentric? Well, Wikipedia has a lovely list (which being, Wikipedia, they won't smite me... (posted by Connor 2 years 25 days ago.)

20. It’s Not About Why you Should Vote for Us it’s Why you Shouldn’t Vote for Them this Election Oh isn't it exciting? The general election date has finally been set for the 6 th of May and politics is really getting tough. This year is really going to be good. Has labour been in power too long? Have we recovered sufficiently from The... (posted by Connor 2 years 48 days ago.)

21. Smoking and Drinking while Pregnant – the Science, Risks and Dangers. Don’t do it! This week I decided that I would do some science writing. I'm a physics and maths man but I know quite a lot of biology. I decided that this article would probably have a much greater appeal than long calculations. Therefore I came up with this.... (posted by Connor 2 years 61 days ago.)

22. Embarrassing Bodies on Channel Four – Can They Show This on TV? Too Far? Do People Watch This? Ah, Friday nights don't we just love them? The one day in the week that most people can justify lying on the floor and the day that gives your brain time to replace the fuse you blew on Monday. Friday nights have now taken on a whole new... (posted by Connor 2 years 68 days ago.)

23. Reflections on My First Year Writing for SearchWarp Writing for SearchWarp has taught me many things. One of which is the importance of being accurate in writing even more important than being Earnest! Thus I would like to make an admission: I have actually joined SearchWarp one year and nine days... (posted by Connor 2 years 76 days ago.)

24. The Council Is Really Beginning To Get This Recycling Thing - Easy is the Word There are very few things more tediously boring than sorting through mountains of waste to be recycled, reading bin literature (Huckleberry Bin anyone?), heaving heavy bags filled with catalogues down the drive and having binmen attacking your... (posted by Connor 2 years 81 days ago.)

25. British Gas Profits Soar, Gas Prices Drop Yet Prices Don’t. People, People Why all the Shock? You've probably heard the news that Gas and electricity giant British Gas made a pretty penny last year. Perhaps, a pretty penny is an understatement: they made 600 billion of them or - in other words - 600 million pounds (about $915 million).... (posted by Connor 2 years 89 days ago.)