The latest in my ‘Learn Something New Every Day’ series – taken from The Great Courses’ “Trails of Evidence: How Forensic Science Works” (Lecture 27 – Profiling) File this one under “You can tell I’m not American…” Ted Kazinski, aka the Unabomber, was called that because he targeted universities and airlines to bomb. (UN=university, A=airlines). UN-A-Bomber. […]
Profiling the profiler
The latest in my ‘Learn Something New Every Day’ series – taken from The Great Courses’ “Trails of Evidence: How Forensic Science Works” (Lecture 27 – Profiling) Serial predators ‘profile’ their victims in much the same way that behaviourists profile them. Ted Bundy faked an arm or leg injury and then visibly struggled getting something […]
Profiling a killer
The latest in my ‘Learn Something New Every Day’ series – taken from The Great Courses’ “Trails of Evidence: How Forensic Science Works” (Lecture 27 – Profiling) Offenders get broken down into two main behavioural groups: organised/disorganised Organised offenders are prepared and usually plan their attacks meticulously. Disorganised killers are impulsive: they don’t plan their […]
Five things you may not have known about offender profiling
The latest in my ‘Learn Something New Every Day’ series – taken from The Great Courses’ “Trails of Evidence: How Forensic Science Works” (Lecture 27 – Profiling) Profiling only has one job – to reduce a suspect pool to a more manageable (ie: smaller) size. Trained profilers attempt to identify the characteristics of a perpetrator […]
What TV gets wrong: Interviews & Interrogations
I’m back (after a short Easter break from the icky stuff) in my ‘Learn Something New Every Day’ series – taken from The Great Courses’ “Trails of Evidence: How Forensic Science Works” (Lecture 26 – Interview & Interrogation) Here’s a good one for the crime writers. What TV gets wrong about Interviews and Interrogations: When […]
(No surprises…) Christian Allegory in The Chronicles of Narnia
The latest in my Learn Something New Every Day blog series. Something(s) new about CS Lewis and The Chronicles of Narnia (from The Great Courses’ “Life and Times of CS Lewis”) I guess this isn’t really a ‘new’ thing to learn but there were aspects of it that were new to me. CS Lewis made […]
CS Lewis and the Supernatural
The latest in my Learn Something New Every Day blog series. CS Lewis and his fascination with the supernatural (from The Great Courses’ “Life and Writings of CS Lewis”) As a young man, Lewis had a ‘ravenous, erotic lust’ for occultism but, ultimately, found it unsatisfying. He chose to convert from atheism to Christianity because it […]
Five things you might not have known about NARNIA
The latest in my Learn Something New Every Day blog series. Hooray! Narnia at last. Some interesting snippets about CS Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia (from The Great Courses’ “Life and Writings of CS Lewis”) Five things you might not have known about Narnia CS Lewis was adamant that he didn’t plan to write a children’s story. Chronicles […]
Why no-one really noticed CS Lewis had died (aka: Last five things you probably didn’t know about CS Lewis [11-15])
The latest in my Learn Something New Every Day blog series. Five more interesting facts about CS Lewis (from The Great Courses’ “Life and Writings of CS Lewis”) Last five things you probably didn’t know about CS Lewis (11-15) As a child, CS Lewis created an imaginary world with his brother, Warren, which included clothed animals. His […]
Five *more* things you probably didn’t know about CS Lewis (6-10)
The latest in my Learn Something Every Day blog series. Five more interesting facts about CS Lewis (from The Great Courses’ “Life and Writings of CS Lewis”) CS Lewis is best known in Christian circles for his theological writings. But everyone else knows him for the seven connected stories which he wrote between 1949 and 1954, ‘The […]