Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
By my good friend, Dr Adequate. Donate to help out Haiti at Doctors without Borders – they have already lost many facilities due to the disaster. Unmysterious Ways Jehovah, as I understand, holds all creation in his hand: the Bible leaves no doubt. And yet he always intervenes with great economy of means, and takes [...]
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Congratulations to the Digital Cuttlefish for getting into the annual Open Laboratory for the THIRD time!! Announcing the posts that will be published in The Open Laboratory 2009! The Cuttlefish Genome project, by the Digital Cuttlefish. Very very well done to all the entries, I was really pleased to note quite a few bloggers who [...]
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Podcast on sports superstitions! People hiding cursed clothing underneath a stadium! Koalas entering the city in search for water before they take Manhattan and then Berlin! Okay, maybe not that last part. I make a special mention at the end of this week’s Token Skeptic podcast episode, a nod to Sean the Blogonaut who reviewed [...]
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Hat-tip to Bishtraining:
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Yes, getting back to work and slowly directing my energies away from reflecting on the sadness from the last few months and seeing if I can get back into the office by throwing myself bodily at the door and upending the piles of research papers from the stacks that have started to collect dust. Moments [...]
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From Stephen Law’s site - background info here “Contributor To Australian Skeptic Fighting For Justice In Nigeria” and here: The State Security Service has taken Uche with them away from his home supposedly to their offices. Leo has asked the person who lives with Uche to go to the offices and ask what is happening. [...]
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A less important finding online… here’s quite a different sort of achievement. Oh — the Perth Skeptics are hoping to hold a ‘White Wine in the Sun’ picnic — check out the details for January 16th, 1pm at Skeptics in the Park.
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UPDATE – new ChipIn Link. I’m somewhat familiar with the work of Tee Morris, even though we’ve never really met. When Richard Saunders told me that the TANK Vodcast/Skeptic Zone vodcast would become primarily a podcast after Dragon*Con 2008, I knew that we were in for a lot of work. My first response in such [...]
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