April 2010

I’m sorry, but if you know of the Skeptic Zone podcast? You’ll know how both insulting and yet hilarious this is. This is a screenshot from an anti-vaccination group, who are bitter that there’s a parody of the AVN on Facebook. Many thanks to Dave the Happy Singer, who alerted us with “#StopAVN are the [...]

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Little Kitten – Tim Minchin’s Pope Song

by podblack on April 30, 2010

LANGUAGE WARNING! Definitely not safe to be played at work…

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Okay, colour-changing-card-me confused about the combination of a new paper and a much older report on the benefits of magic tricks for children! Questioning something that even I find rather palatable upon first reading isn’t unusual, particularly if it involves education claims. I guess I like to question even my own fervent hope that an [...]

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DJ Grothe’s Keynote Speech At NECSS 2010

by podblack on April 29, 2010

NECSS 2010 – Keynote – D. J. Grothe from Maggie McFee on Vimeo.

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Vale Jef Clark Of Hunting Humbug Podcast

by podblack on April 28, 2010

This is a very belated response – because although I have ‘Hunting Humbug‘ in my podcast directory, it hasn’t been updated in my feed since last year. I wasn’t sure why, and it was only today that I learned of the circumstances as to why. I first met Jef Clark at the 2006 Australian Skeptics [...]

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Very nice fellow, ‘Non-Stamp Collector’ — great talk at the Global Atheist Convention.

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Colbert Report On Boobquake

by podblack on April 27, 2010

The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Boobquake Day Causes Earthquake www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Fox News

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Review Submitted for Embiggen Books Trouble is, I’ve cleaned up my office over the weekend but I know I have a copy of ‘Science: The Definitive Visual Guide‘, edited by Adam Hart-Davis, somewhere in the house. Lovely surprise, this book – I won it in a competition for making a quirky comment about inventions for [...]

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