May the (Police) Force be With You!
You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video More Jedi news - eight police officers serving with Scotland’s largest force listed their official religion as Jedi in voluntary diversity forms. All this after some guy taught the UK’s first Jedi course at Queen’s University, Belfast. Why do these people do it? Is there any reason to take Star Wars so...
Read MoreStar Wars Goes To Work
On December 9th (Belfast) and 10th (Dublin) I spoke at the Christmas Event of the Institute of Internal Auditors (Irish District Society). It was an exciting and challenging experience, since I’ve never done anything quite like it before. But the feedback from both events was excellent, with participants sending me emails of appreciation and request for more information. Like the...
Read MoreMind-tricks, Magic, and the Media
Interest in my Jedi ‘university workshop’ has, I think, climaxed. I’ve mentioned that I was interviewed on ABC Radio in Oz. The latest is an interview on Danish Radio Station DR, who were pretty into it. So it was comforting to learn that I’m not the only wacko innovative, lateral-thinking teacher around. Professor Richard Wiseman has told the British Association...
Read MoreJedi Workshop Goes International!
Well, kind of. I was interviewed this morning by Steve Chase of ABC Radio in Australia. Media coverage for this course has snowballed at an unbelievable rate in the last week. Dawn mentioned some of the radio interviews I’ve done in the last blog, as well as the inital exposure with the Newsletter and the BBC. This in addition to the national newspapers that were generous with their...
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