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JKH

A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven. [Jean Chrétien]

About Me

Originally from Sydney, Australia - now living in Montreal, Quebec.

The REAL Dr. Phil

The very cool Penn & Teller ...

THINK!!!

One video - two of my heros (RN and PJ)
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From Crackle: Penn Says- Nixon's Mistake

My Interests

Sabrina, skepticism, SETI, quantum mechanics, cosmology, military and political history, history of science, ice hockey (Montreal Canadiens!), jazz music, money, techology

I'd like to meet:

An intelligent extra terrestrial, Phil Plait, Tom Waits, Stephen Fry, Stephen Hawking, The SGU Rogues, Arthur C. Clarke, Albert Einstein, Thomas Jefferson, Penn & Teller, Stanley Kubrick, Abraham Lincoln, Richard Feynman, John Dalton, Carl Sagan, Someone living on earth 1000 years from now.

Music:

    Tom WaitsStacey KentNat King ColeItzhak PerlmanLouis ArmstrongDexter GordonAl JolsonBillie HolidayElla FitzgeraldVince JonesTommy EmmanuelCole PorterShostakovichJoseph HaydenJ.S. Bach

Movies:

    SidewaysCoffee and CigarettesPaths Of Glory2001 A Space OdysseyDoctor Strangelove Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The BombContactPiSin CityWall StreetApollo 13Inherit The WindRopeThe English PatientGroundhog DayHamlet (Ken Branagh's version - 1996)The Jazz Singer (Al Jolson)

Television:

    The UniverseBlack BooksMythbustersThe HourPenn & Teller's Bullshit BlackadderA Bit of Fry & LaurieYes MinisterNova (PBS)Alfred Hitchcock PresentsStar Gazer (Jack Horkheimer)

Books:

Biocosm, The Demon-Haunted World, Sock, The Fabric of the Cosmos, E=mc2, The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, American Ceasar, The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Visions of Glory, Broca's Brain

Heroes:

    Carl SaganStephen HawkingStephen FryDouglas MacarthurWinston ChurchillEd WittenAlbert EinsteinJames RandiBill GatesLeonardo Da VinciStanley KubrickMaurice RichardSaku KoivuBenjamin FranklinHenry CavendishMax WilliamsIsaac NewtonGalileo GalileiChristopher HitchensNicolaus CopernicusCharles DarwinPenn JilletteDr. Richard DawkinsJohn DaltonRichard FeynmanNorman BorlaugDr. Pamela GayDr. Phil Plait

My Blog

Einstein and God... or lack thereof

This is for all those nuts who keep trying to contort the words of the great Dr. Einstein to ludicrously suggest that he, the soundest of sound and brilliant minds, had s...
Posted by JKH on Tue, 13 May 2008 07:01:00 PST

11 years of waiting... yes, it was worth it

I finally got my hands on Kenneth Branagh's HAMLET on DVD. The film was made in 1996 and legal squabbles have kept it from being released on DVD until just this month. It is over 4 hours long, but eve...
Posted by JKH on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 06:18:00 PST

Quote of the week #4

"I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road." Stephen Hawking...
Posted by JKH on Sat, 02 Jun 2007 06:07:00 PST

Quote of the week .3

"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear o...
Posted by JKH on Sun, 27 May 2007 09:42:00 PST

World's Best Podcasts (according to me)

For those who share my view of the world, here are some of my favourite podcasts (in no particular order). You can find them all in ITunes. New Scientist Podcast SETI: Science and Skepticism: Are We...
Posted by JKH on Fri, 25 May 2007 06:38:00 PST

Quote of the week .2

"I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy." Tom Waits...
Posted by JKH on Fri, 18 May 2007 02:05:00 PST

Quote of the week .1

"The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness." Pierre-Simon Marquis de Laplace | 1749-1827...
Posted by JKH on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 02:56:00 PST