Science and romance

This song is great; it does a good job of pointing out the foolishness that is the whole “one twoo wuv” thing while not downplaying how important our relationships with SOs can be. This is a good example of positive atheism. While there are some pokes taken at annoying tropes and the style of the song is clearly a parody of insipid pop songs proclaiming undying singular love, the song still comes across as deeply romantic.

Admittedly, I do think ‘You’re not special – I mean, you’re special but you fall within a bell curve’ to be a great line, so I might be falling into one tail of an entirely different bell curve.

Tim Minchin Movie!

So, those of you in the skepticism community have likely heard of Tim Minchin, a comedian/musician. His piece ‘Storm’, a 9-minute beat poem, is being turned into a short animated film. Here’s the trailer.

For those of you unfamiliar with the original, here’s the poem.