Forthcoming shows from Skeptics on the Fringe:
Wednesday August 11th:
Dr. Charles Paxton, The Kraken, The Banshee Labyrinth, 6:00PM, 18:00
Thursday August 12th:
Matt Parker, Clutching at Random Straws, The Banshee Labyrinth, 18:00
Friday August 13th:
Professor Richard Wiseman, The Luck Factor, The Banshee Labyrinth, 18:00
Saturday August 14th:
Chris French, Anomalistic Psychology, The Banshee Labyrinth, 18:00
The full listing is available from http://skepticsonthefringe.co.uk
The following reviews of some of the other Fringe shows are courtesy of Ash Pryce, one of the organisers of Skeptics on the Fringe.
Giggidy Giggidy Gigerenzer
There are many who would question whether basing a fringe comedy show on statistics and mathematics would work. Particularly one that focuses on death. Maths is generally a subject many recoiled from at school and still perhaps find boring or incomprehensible. Death is generally a subject most tend to find a little less than funny. This makes Your Days Are Numbered (Matt Parker and Timandra Harkness 11.25 Assembley@George Street) an even more remarkable show in that it makes the statistics of deaths fun.
Find out why canoeing is like taking ecstasy, how more dangerous than aliens a bee is and learn about the differences between absolute and relative risk while rolling in the aisles.
A must see for all geeks and non-geeks!
3D picture show
Mould and Arrowsmiths’ Fringe show is funny. It’s hard to review it without over exuberantly blurting out things that are probably integral to the show! Suffice to say – if you rotate this review it will look like it is spinning.
Mould and Arrowsmith invite you into a comic landscape peppered with geeky references, clever wordplay and cunningly constructed tomfoolery. You would be well advised to join them at the Pleasance Baby Grand at 4:30pm
Keen and Khan: Starstruck 21.45 Voodoo rooms (10th and 11th)
But two nights remain of this show where Helen Keen and Dr Sophia Khan tell us ten things we didn’t know about NASA. You at highly advised not to miss it! Helen Keen is excellent as co-host but it is Dr Khan who stole the show. I’m not sure what more I can say about this but you really must try and see it.
