Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
Q.I – next Tuesday, 9.30pm on ABC1. Just saying… @RogueRouge – Kudos 2 #hungrybeast BUT could be better. Less pointing out the obvious. More actual analysis (not that I’m qualified 2 judge just my opin) Okay, confession first. I got (and very much unwarranted, I feel, since people commenting on my site have been less [...]
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Since I’ve had correspondence with two people now on this topic – here are my tips about the running of a skeptic quiz at a ‘Skeptics in the Pub / courtyard / lecture room / what have you’. I ran a quiz last month for the Perth Skeptics, but because we have our get-togethers from [...]
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Found a little late (dated August) but it looks like James Allan is practically inspired by Tim Minchin’s ‘Storm’ with this one! He’s talking on this very topic at the forthcoming Australian Skeptics conference – “Why Skeptics are Dinner Party Nightmares”. Here’s his article in the Australian newspaper: HOW many readers have gone to dinner [...]
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…and he’s so CUTE too! BBC News: The regulation of hypnotherapists in the UK is so lax that even a cat can become accredited, the BBC has found. Chris Jackson, presenter of Inside Out in the North East and Cumbria, registered pet George with three industry bodies. Each one accepted a certificate from the non-existent [...]
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Sorry — this is just one of those things that you ‘see once, remember and then spend a wistful amount of time wishing you wrote down more details so you could find it again.’ I just found it. Go back and read the blogpost called ‘Is This All You Got In This Size?’ and the [...]
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Thanks to Daniel Loxton for the find!
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I’ve been hideously busy and this will continue for a while, especially since I seem to have two battling email systems that eat all my important documents. Today I even ended up contributing a little time towards someone else’s PhD (no, I don’t have one; yes, it’d be nice to have one!). Anyway. Some days [...]
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Breaking News About Simon Singh Court Case!
by podblack on October 14, 2009
I’ll let the Twitter-power of Jack of Kent tell you the story as it happened! Head to his site at http://jackofkent.blogspot.com to learn more from here on. Please use today’s success to encourage others to sign up to support libel reform. There is also a brief summary at the site of Crispian Jago (who does [...]
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