Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
A Blog Around The Clock posted it — here it is! “The Open Laboratory — The Best In Science Writing On Blogs, 2008 Edition”. The book itself should be out soon… I’ll have to see about getting some copies to Dragon*Con so they can be sold off as a fundraiser or something? Speaking of cool [...]
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Thanks to Evolving Thoughts: “David Chalmers and his student David Bourget at the Australian National University have developed a new resource: PhilPapers. This is a hot list to online versions of (so far) over 188,000 items in current philosophy.”
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The third day of the Lunar New Year is traditionally regarded as unlucky to visit other people’s homes. So people turned up in droves at the Che Kung temple in Sha Tin to spin the wheels and bang the drums in the hopes of gaining good luck in the Year of the Ox. Police estimated [...]
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Neener! I did an online unit! I’m going to get this framed! That is my Certificate of Completion for the Introduction to Parapsychology Course, run by the Koestler Parapsychology Unit at the University of Edinburgh! This new short course (commenced September 2008) is taught entirely online and is open to anyone regardless of geographical location. [...]
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The official ‘nine minute beat’ poem — Storm. As authorised by Tim Minchin, nice and clear. Live at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, December 2008. As suggested by commentator (hello!) Gib — I am re-posting the ‘lyrics’ (or should that be verses? It is a poem, not a song…) from the post called ‘Lyrics To [...]
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Many, many thanks to Swoopy of Skepticality for this find!! BBC News: Red Dwarf voyages back to Earth Cult comedy Red Dwarf is returning to TV, 21 years after its initial launch. The show has been resurrected by digital channel Dave for a two-part Easter weekend special, which sees the cast finally return to Earth. [...]
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Today a news item popped up, which didn’t really surprise me. I’d heard of accounts of similar sorts of behaviour as ‘warnings’ to me, when I tried talking about how interesting and educational it would be to talk about the paranormal and pseudoscientific topics in the high school classroom. What should a teacher do in [...]
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I’m quite busy today! Which is why I’m posting at about 6am. This used to be standard practice, being up at this hour, when I was working on completing one M.Ed, writing a proposal for another and doing a Grad Dip by distance ed… oh, and WORKING FULL TIME. But thankfully things have changed, but [...]
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