Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
Really proud to see Bec Crew of the Save Your Breath for Running Ponies! blog has won the Best Australian Science Blog prize for Australia’s Science Week!! (Not just because I’d said that I’d dye my hair if I won, and now I don’t have to! Wahoo!) Ms Crew, who is based in Sydney and [...]
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Have a good weekend!
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Today I headed into Curtin University, after getting rather lost in the maze of building-works that is happening around the science and technology sector of the campus (getting lost – not so bad. Discovering that a former student of mine is attending same workshop and gleefully shouts the teacher-nickname I was known for four years [...]
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Thanks to Ms Information for the find! Yeah, it’s that double-rainbow…
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With thanks to Desiree (go check out Skeptically Speaking!)
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ASTRONOMICAL AWESOMENESS – Why do we ask why? Speakers include: Cheryl Praeger (UWA), Carley Tillett (Scitech), Carmelo Amalfi (Murdoch) and Megan Argo (Curtin). Hello and we’re starting – it’s probably about as crowded as it was last time, which means pretty packed! Our host, the very lovely and vibrant Renae, how is mentioning that all [...]
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Top-rating story this morning, from the Sydney Morning Herald – a major newspaper in NSW – about the AVN’s failure to comply with the HCCC. Its investigation was sparked by two complaints, one from Toni and David McCaffery, whose four-week-old daughter Dana died from whooping cough last year. The couple, from Lennox Head, allege they [...]
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By the way, Perth people! Tomorrow is the FINAL Profs and Pints, all about astronomy! Will see you there! Profs and Pints at the Flying Scotsman — Velvet Lounge from 6.00 — 8.00pm — where we question the astronomically big to the astronomically small and challenge why we always seek answers — even if it [...]
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