Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
Due to a family health matter that looks like it’s going to continue for the next month and possibly beyond, blogging will be sporadic over the coming weeks. I’ve written previously about deconstructing one of my posts and that is still on schedule, but I’m not entirely certain how active I’ll be after that. This [...]
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Thanks to Daniel Loxton on Twitter for the alert!
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DO NOT MISS RADIO! ‘The coming of “The Singularity”…or not?’ Listen to it on All In The Mind on Radio National, 19th September at 1pm and repeated on Monday 21st September, 1pm. In fact, if you do miss it, I’ll be plugging the podcast of it. Endlessly. So you better be ready! Michael McRae has [...]
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I was alerted to the following comment on a blog site – a person I didn’t meet, but they also attended Dragon*Con – from Watching the Wheels: Personally I thought it was just as applicable to those of us either officially in journalism or riding the fence somewhere between journalism and entertainment (we know who [...]
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Great summary in the most recent e-Skeptic on Dragon*Con! Very pleased to see that Daniel Loxton picked up on many of the elements that make me support Dragon*Con as a skeptic conference. What I would have additionally added was how much you get out of volunteering and helping at a conference. It enables you to [...]
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I would say that Dragon*Con 2009 featured several memorable events for me. Seeing Patrick Stewart crash the photography line for Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner, screaming how he was their biggest fan as he snogged Shatner (Nimoy collapsed under the table with laughter, so he escaped the tonsil-hockey). The security teams went bonkers at that [...]
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I was very honored to be asked to attend the first meeting of the Auckland Skeptics — which started in the pub at the Horse and Trap. From here, just like it is in my town, it can become Auckland Skeptics in the Park, at the movies, at the rallies, at the press-release party, and [...]
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