July 2009

Help out the show! The Skeptic Zone Survey is to help us touch base with our demographic and learn more about what you like about the show and what we can improve for your listening enjoyment. It’s not a very long survey, promise! Just three quick demographic questions and a short overview of what we [...]

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http://www.shavemyyeti.com/

by podblack on July 21, 2009

I think it speaks for itself, really… Shave My Yeti is an advert, but kind of cute.

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Ask Podblack – What Is Podblack Anyway?

by podblack on July 21, 2009

Heh. In case you don’t know, I have a dedicated Twitter account for people asking questions which I’ll answer on this site – Podblackblog on Twitter. There’s also the option of my About Podblack Cat – Contact Me link in the banner at the top of the page and you can subscribe via the Subscribe [...]

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Jimmy Carter in The Guardian: The same discriminatory thinking lies behind the continuing gender gap in pay and why there are still so few women in office in Britain and the United States. The root of this prejudice lies deep in our histories, but its impact is felt every day. It is not women and [...]

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Oooh, yes I Iove new data, yes I love new data, dah dah dah dah *boom* dah dah dah dah *boom* – thanks to Skeptical Teacher for this one! British Council Press Release: A British Council poll into awareness of Charles Darwin and attitudes towards evolution has found that there is a broad international consensus [...]

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Love this guy. Since I’m going over some older Skeptic Zone episodes, you might like to hear him being interviewed on: Potholder54 interviewed — The Skeptic Zone #9 — 19.Dec.2008. He’s Australian! Yay! Potholer54debunks- The Grand Canyon is such an icon of the Earth’s geological history, of slow and steady uplift, erosion, submergence and deposition, [...]

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From Skeptic Blog – TAM 7 – Miscellaneous mumbling: There is one observation I would like to share with you – and that is the noticeable absence of attendees and panel participants of Asian descent.  This is not the only skeptics movement events where I have noticed this dearth of Asian (especially Chinese and Koreans) [...]

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George Hrab’s “Far” Now On Fark!

by podblack on July 19, 2009

If you’re a contributor to Fark – get voting for it!! If you haven’t checked it out before, go give it a view and a vote on YouTube! Speaking of which, another Geologic Podcast comment contributor will be featuring on the 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast very soon – well done to Peter Sosna who [...]

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