Hello to the fellow UWA students who heard my lecture on Thursday! Here are a few links to some things I mentioned during my talk and that we discussed when it finished.
Firstly – activism and skepticism and how some people were wondering ‘what is being done out there?’
Check out the following: What Do I Do Next?: Leading Skeptics Discuss 105 Practical Ways to Promote Science and Advance Skepticism.” Daniel Loxton is the editor and overall-brilliant fellow who continually challenges and questions future directions – you should also check out the Skepticblog, where he sometimes writes too!
Australian Skeptics website – that is where you’ll find information on the forthcoming ‘Amazing Meeting Australia’. If you’d like to know more about what an ‘Amazing Meeting’ is like, you should head over to the official James Randi Educational Foundation site. There you’ll find information on previous and forthcoming conferences.
Podcasts that we mentioned during the lecture – the Skeptic Zone and the Young Australian Skeptics podcast called ‘The Pseudo-Scientists’. There was also Skeptoid and the Geologic Podcast mentioned – the Token Skeptic podcast was one that I briefly mentioned and you should also go through iTunes to see others.
Finally, if you’re interested in finding more information on the topics of superstition, belief and (since someone asked) cultural influences, I’d suggest reading the following blog-posts:
Women and Superstitions – Part One – The beginning of my ‘literature review online’ regarding sex, gender, superstition, age, current paranormal belief scales and their popularity.
Women and Superstitions – Part Two – Yes, there’s more! Getting into cultural differences, economic and social reasons to be into the weird.
Women and Superstitions – Part Three – Taking the study onto the beliefs of young people and the contribution of sports superstitions and 9/11 conspiracy theories and their popularity. What studies have been done?
Women and Superstitions – Part Four – In a response to a question about culture, I do some research.
BIG thanks again to Madge and Paul of the UWA Atheist & Agnostic Society and I hope to see you all again at the forthcoming conference next week. It was wonderful to have an opportunity to discuss the research and practice some of what I’ll be presenting.
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Thanks for the talk and the resources you have provided!
Y’welcome! Thanks for the review on your site too, I hope to catch up with the UWA scene more often this year!
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