Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
BMGMartin – #hungrybeast was confused, lacked direction and mixed pisstakes which didn’t hit the mark with a serious i/v with grieving war widow. Fail. I did have my hopes up initially for this first episode, because I know of one reporter’s credentials as a science communication / Science Circus graduate from the prestigious ANU course. [...]
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If you would like to see all of the Skeptic Zone vodcast films — head to the official Skeptic Zone Facebook page where you can see all of the films we created with the team.
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Hi to all the Guardian readers / fans of Tim Minchin out there! Yes, there are quite a few Tim Minchin blog-posts with lots of information on this site, since I was one of the first skeptic podcasters to interview him (for the TANK Vodcast, back in 2008). After that, we had a four-part lengthy [...]
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Bruce M Hood reports on the Australian story with his personal insights as both a researcher of beliefs and a father (with a tip-o-the-hat to our very own Richard Saunders – we spoke to Prof. Hood for his very first podcast interview in Skeptic Zone episode #30) – A Tragedy of Homeopathic Ignorance: …It was [...]
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I enjoy chatting with the multi-talented and insightful Reed Esau on a number of topics and it was a thrill to see him again at Dragon*Con this year (I now have two, TWO shirts with SkeptiCamp on them! I is happy Australian!). Today on Twitter, he raised a concern about a quote which was being [...]
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I love being in NZ – I use Air NZ when traveling and have stopped off in Auckland a number of times when heading to the USA. This, however, is a brand-new find for me and I seriously hope that other conferences will follow the New Zealand Skeptics example! They just had their conference, held [...]
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Just a quick note – I’ve just updated the permalinks to the site (e.g: instead of http://podblack.com/?p=1202 it now reads http://podblack.com/2009/01/tim-minchins-storm-now-featured-online/ and so forth). There’s also a few other plugins that I’m playing around with, but if you have any major 404s, zip me an email or just pop in a comment? Purrrrrrr….
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Following on from Skeptical Movies? Three You Might Have Missed “And he tells me he loves me… and then he’s not there anymore.” “And then how do you feel?” “Okay, fine. Well, I feel looked after, I suppose. I feel watched over. You see, he never says anything profound or earth-shattering — you know, he [...]
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