June 2010

I’m really happy that this is featuring and will be zipping in more to the site very soon! Thanks CSI! Warren Bonett is the proprietor of the Embiggen Books Bookshop in Noosaville, Queensland, in northeast Australia. The bookshop, devoted to promoting rationalism and science, features videoed lectures by the likes of Andrew Doherty (The Quantum [...]

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Confused by the “vaccination debate?” Are you looking for information you can trust? The Telethon Institute for Child Health Research is hosting a free public information seminar on the latest scientific evidence surrounding childhood vaccination. It will be an opportunity to hear from and ask questions of the State’s leading experts in immunology, infectious diseases [...]

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You guessed it. Two days in a row and two podcasts. This time, it’s another interview – ‘Episode Twenty-Seven – On The Separation Between Scientific Truth And Belief – Interview With Dr Pamela Gay‘ If you’ve been reading Pharyngula, you’ll have read: Should Skeptic Organisations Be Atheist Organisations? Which is about this post, from Dr [...]

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I know, I REALLY have to get back to some serious science blogging… but while you’re waiting – here’s episode twenty-six of the Token Skeptic Podcast! This week I’m interviewing Joey Haban of the blog Newly Nerfed. Newly Nerfed is a blog about chronic illness and disability, science and skepticism, and geekery of all kinds, [...]

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I’m going to be podcasting on this matter later, thanks to two very kind people who have responded to my request, and I’ll see if I can transcribe it. But I just want to post a few links in response to PZ Myer’s ‘Should skeptic organizations be atheist organizations?’ which is in regards to Dr [...]

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Little Kitten – Cyber-Cat!

by podblack on June 26, 2010

Everyone is posting this and admiring it on Facebook — so, I can’t help posting it here. Thanks to everyone who has featured it! Do note — it might be initially disturbing (I mean — it’s a kitty. Serious surgery. Did anyone ask Oscar ‘You can haz bionic legs, yes?’ and so forth… I’ve had [...]

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Well, maybe Steve Martin needs to be told about George Hrab, Tim Minchin, and a few others, for a start… From another angle (and mid-way through song): And live in Merlefest:

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I would like my readers to notice this particular part in bold, from a blog-post by Dr Barbara Drescher on the Woo Fighters site: On June 10th I posted a solicitation for donations to help us raise $2800 to send four students to The Amazing Meeting 8… …In addition to a very generous donation, Kylie [...]

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