Gah. Okay, I admit it. I do most of my blogging and podcasting work between the hours of 5am and 8am. It’s quiet, it’s relatively cat-free and I can catch up on friends who happen to be in different time-zones (e.g over in the Eastern states, where it’s about three hours ahead, or in the USA or UK, where it’s the day before). It also frees me up to focus on everything else that’s work or study-related in other times.
What I’ve discovered recently? 5am and 8am also appears to be crunch time for internet access too! Crunch, splat and squish-time. Nothing happening and nothing can get online, certainly not blog-entries or podcast eps. Argh.
Perhaps it’s the modems that get replaced… perhaps it’s now the phone-lines… perhaps it’s the non-existent gremlins now! I have no idea and won’t until later in the week – so my apologies if the blog goes into somewhat-hiatus until things are sorted out. If I’m lucky, I’ll get another two episodes out ASAP, to make up for it!
This week for the Token Skeptic podcast, I’m interviewing Warren Bonett of Embiggen Books. We also discuss some great science books and I hope will be a regular feature in forthcoming shows.
Warren’s bookstore, Embiggen Books, is in Noosaville on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland Australia. Their website is www.embiggenbooks.com.
The books reviewed for this episode are:
- Michael Specter’s Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms The Planet and Threatens Our Lives
- Deirdree Barrett’s Supernormal Stimuli – How Primal Urges Overan Their Evolutionary Purpose.
You’ll also hear us mention in passing The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot and Bruce M. Hood’s Supersense: From Superstition to Religion, the Brain Science of Belief.
If you’d like to suggest some books for us to look at or make some recommendations, please feel free to contact either myself or Warren about this episode.
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Sorry to hear that!
It’s funny how losing the internet can really make the modern person realise how connected we have become (no pun intended!)
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