Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
Just a quick update to say: 1. Insanely busy. I mean, nutty busy. Going to spend today just going through the list of things I have to get done and then get to the things that I actually want to get done and then I might see about doing things like ‘food’ and ‘sleep’ and [...]
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New Point of Inquiry podcast episode! This one features one of the great writers for the Australian Book of Atheism, Dr Karen Stollznow, and Warren Bonnett, who you can hear regularly featured on the Token Skeptic podcast Embiggen Books episodes. He’s also featured in a print interview, on the Curiouser and Curiouser column over at [...]
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Congratulations to all the participants this year at Philosothon! A great night of discussion and inquiry all round. … Each year the event has grown with currently 24 schools participating in the West Australian 2010 Philosothon. 18 schools will participate in the Queensland Ascham College Philsothon and 8 schools will participate in the first Melbourne [...]
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I recently learned that I’m one of the few active-online skeptics (and honestly, I wonder even if I’m that much of a ‘skeptic’ anymore) – who can be named as having done primary research on assessing belief in the paranormal. Big thanks to Swoopy, Derek and Desiree for giving me a lovely shout-out on an [...]
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Sent to me by one of the wonderful people who worked at the Global Atheist Convention, this is a new site urging politicians to have the Australian Marriage Act of 1961 reflect that all couples should have the right to express their love and commitment – including two of my friends Jason and James, who [...]
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Well, I’m not well. :/ But I’m more worried about another friend, Milton, who is currently so unwell, he’s in hospital. Really hope things improve quickly for him and hopefully he’ll enjoy this when he’s better. I really love Stephen Fry’s ‘Podgrams’ podcast (yes, I have to get back to work on my podcast too!) [...]
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Oh. Wow. Bloody hell wow. From Courthouse News Service: GLENDALE, Calif. (CN) – Evolutionary biologist and best-selling author Richard Dawkins claims an employee of his Foundation for Reason and Science embezzled $375,000 from the online store he ran for Dawkins’ charity, by claiming it made only $30,000 in 3 years. …Because legal requirements imposed by [...]
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