Connor Davidson

A Brief Guide to the Best British Sitcoms

Keeping Up Appearances Best Episode: "Angel Gabriel Blue" Keeping up Appearances is the creation of one of Britain’s most prolific and beloved comedy writers: Roy Clarke. The sitcom is based around Hyacinth Bucket (pounced Bouquet, apparently) who is the biggest snob you could imagine. For example she will answer the phone by saying “the Bouquet residence, the lady of the house speaking”... (posted by Connor 111 days 18 hours ago.)

Psychics, Financial Astrology and the Stock Market: What if you Could Predict the Market?

Let’s cut to the case. We have two options: psychics are not psychic or they have the highest standards of morality with regard to finance and would not misuse their “powers” to make vast amounts of money. That’s my basic thesis with the article. Psychics should be rich; very rich. Just imagine if just one of the thousands and thousands of... (posted by Connor 154 days 19 hours ago.)

Though not Exactly Sweet; A Man did Eat a Plane Once...

This week’s writing assignment, “Sweet Ride”, just so happened to coincide with me reading an article on weird things found in the human body. So when I saw the writing assignment I instantly made a connection with the article. But before you ask, I know your probably wondering, all of the things in the article (including and especially the plane)... (posted by Connor 164 days 14 hours ago.)

Is it Rude Not to Pray?

As usual Steve Kovacs got me thinking. His latest article discussed a family praying in a restaurant and how everyone bowed their heads respectfully – including Jews and atheists. He goes on to finish by saying that what he observed was “a good thing”. I don’t know about that. The reason it got me thinking was that I wondered how I would have reacted in that group. I realised... (posted by Connor 202 days 14 hours ago.)

Matlab Tutorial: Basic Plotting, Multiple Plots, Multiple Trendlines and Plot Labels

The resources on the internet for this are terrible so hopefully this article will clear things up for you. I had to figure all this stuff out for myself so consider yourself lucky. If you know a better way than those explained here please post them in the comments section. This tutorial will teach you how to plot a basic graph with Matlab, plot multiple lines on the... (posted by Connor 213 days 13 hours ago.)

The Stupid Media: A Total Failure of Critical Thinking, Reason and Skepticism

One of the things I dislike about going to the barbers is reading the tabloid newspapers while waiting (though it is marginally better than sitting in silence). The problem I have with tabloid newspapers is that they miss reality by over simply issues or simply distort reality to create or artificially enlarge issues. When reading these papers you can see that they assume a... (posted by Connor 248 days 21 hours ago.)

Can Gays Choose not to be Gay? (In Defence Of Homosexuals Part 4)

Whenever some guy says that sexuality is a matter of choice the best response is simply to say “blow me”. They never do (I imagine). They could choose to but they choose not to. Why do they choose not to? They are choosing sex based on their sexuality. Yet they tell you that you can choose your sexuality. You see one of the fundamental failings... (posted by Connor 252 days 18 hours ago.)

Math Fallacies – Proof that Two Equals One and One Equals Negative One

Maths is fascinating and solving problems using maths can be enjoyable. One of the classic problems in maths is to look at a worked problem that comes up with a stupid and obviously incorrect answer and then try to work out why it is wrong. However, the reason why it is wrong is incredibly subtle. Try to figure out the subtle mistake before reading on. ... (posted by Connor 258 days 21 hours ago.)