Gah, I hate it when things are terrifically busy and I’m focusing more on controlling sinus pain, workloads and impending study and writing deadlines – but do not let those kinds of grumbles deter you! There’s plenty happening in Perth and nationwide via the Australia’s National Science Week site for 2010!
Today I’ll be checking out the UWA open day (particularly the Science Communication offerings) and attending ‘The Stupid Species‘!
I interviewed Daniel Keogh for the Token Skeptic podcast earlier this year, so it’s great to see him return to his home town:
Sunday, August 15 · 7:00am – 8:30am
Location: Scitech – City West, Sutherland Street, Perth, WA.
Presented by Daniel Keogh from ABC TV’s Hungry Beast – ‘The Stupid Species’ is a show that looks at the science and psychology that makes everyone – except you – act like idiots. Bookings can be made here. This show is traveling nationally – here’s the Melbourne Facebook page for it too!
Spot the one with an overlarge cappuchino and a warm coat and that’ll be me.
In other news – another Token Skeptic Science-Week focused podcast is now out! Episode Thirty-Four – On Saving Your Breath For Running Ponies – An Interview With Bec Crew For Science Week.
Bec Crew writes the informative and hilarious Save Your Breath For Running Ponies! She’s a twenty-six year old Archeology graduate and journalist, who won the Big Blog Theory Competition by popular vote, earning it the title of Best Australian Science Blog. Bec works at Australia’s Cosmos Magazine as an editorial assistant.
Oh, check out another nominated for Science Week best Science-Tweeter Leslie Cannold – her article on the need for more psychologists rather than chaplains – “Australia’s School Chaplaincy Program is an Accident Waiting to Happen“:
I’m not the only one wondering. As a report on the program reveals, many chaplains are unclear about their role. A majority admits they do deal with student mental health and depression issues, student alcohol and drug use, physical/emotional abuse and neglect, and suicide and self-harming behaviours. What most don’t do is refer to appropriate professionals when out of their depth.
This is not an argument against religion in schools, though one can clearly be made. Rather it is an argument about wrong choices made for bad reasons that are putting our most vulnerable schoolchildren at risk. In a world of scarce resources, money spent on chaplains is money that could have brought-wait for it-around 5000 qualified counselors into our schools.
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