Elizabeth Riaikkenen
Elizabeth Riaikkenen, also known affectionately as “Wizzie”, takes an interest and almost instant child- like obsession to any new interest or hobby she can find. Just as indecisively, has no idea what she wants to do in her career, as long as it leaves her easy access to sugar of some form.
She is 15 and still in high school, spreading out her subjects and time into as many facets so she can to leave her options wide open. In the space of a week she has gone from wanting to be an Australian Rules Footbal umpire, to a stage actor, to a concept artist, to an aerospace engineer, to a physicist, and to the pioneer of Unicorn Party activism. And the next week, she got just as many ideas.
She loves sports and comes up with many of her ideas on her daily jog. If she really thought about it, she could put up a case that exercise is detrimental to your mental health. All of that excessive thinking has certainly driven her insane, but it’s probable she never had any sanity in the first place.
Inspired by her induction into the skeptical community, she has realised a long- lost obsession with magic as an artform. She has also uncovered a tiny lump of brain sitting at the bottom of her cranium covered in dust and surrounded by empty bottles, sitting under a dim light and playing at a violin longingly, sounding like a screaming cat. This brain was reinvigorated by a new appreciation of academia, science, intellectualism and really long words.
Her successes in life include confusing innocent bystanders with dauntless and confident rants about profound topics that she has no idea about and being able to line up the perfumes on her shelf so they look nice. One thing she still has to achieve is actually using any of those perfumes.
Posts by Elizabeth Riaikkenen:
This is my biggest bone to pick. This is the issue that gets me going. This is the issue that makes me want to contract rabies and tear muscle from bone, juices from brain, and — despite my love for animals — chicken head…
This is where my opinion branches from many of my fellow skeptics. Alright, maybe not opinion, but my priorities are a completely different cookie flavour than most of the people in this community. I’ve been known to call myself atheist,…
So I was scrolling down Facebook, as the young‘ns do, and found an article which began pretty much as this one did. The author, like me, found a post on Facebook by some person they’ll never see, and has never…
So there’s this school. And there’s this lunchtime club at this school. And there’s a teacher who runs this club, whose lifetime validation comes from a bunch of rotten, juice-excreting, soft and squishy teenagers. It’s only recently come to my…
I’ve dealt with my fair share of disagreements over empirical questions. I’ve debated over the nature of logic, I’ve made little babies cry with my fantasy-bashing points of view, I’ve made myself cry when thinking about the non-existence of a…
I was initially going to talk about why you can’t prove unicorns don’t exist, but then I became aware of a situation that a friend very close to me is dealing with at the moment. And after doing my research…
We can get this out of the way nice and early: yes, I am being paid by the government to say this, we all are. Got it? Fantastic, moving on. The most pervasive misconceptions in Hollywood are not that people can…
It’s the epitome of false balance. The prime voice of unverified, unjust, unquestioning, unempirical, un-sane belief. It is the bane of skeptical inquiry and critical thought. The fear of many a debater. It’s where irrational and rational collide to form a…
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