Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
8 Out Of 10 Cats! Hosted by Jimmy Carr with team captains Sean Lock and Jason Manford and guests Holly Walsh, Uri Geller, Jack Osborne and Tim Minchin. Yes, sorry for the spelling mistake (ARGHHHH) in the other most recent blog-post — I plead late-night blogging, far too much happening on a weekend and work [...]
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You’re going to have to excuse me for taking so long to write this blog-post about what I did on Saturday night – Academic Database Journal Search isn’t being very helpful at the moment: Search terms – ‘moon’ and ‘libido’ and ‘human’ = NO RECORDS IN SET. On Saturday night I attended Perth Scitech’s “Very Sexy [...]
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The image is thanks to the Skeptics in the Pub NZ (and Catherine of Faster Pussycat Productions, the brains behind the brilliance of getting this together!): So – if you’re in Brisbane, Melbourne, Christchurch, Auckland, Adelaide or Canberra – come and catch this show. Will be not only very funny, but very clever, very pro-skeptical [...]
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Star Wars as it’s never been folded before. Animated/Directed by Eric Power.
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Yesterday I got an alert from one of my many Facebook contacts, about a documentary that has just been released in the US and is yet to arrive in Australia: Waiting for Superman. As he follows a handful of promising kids through a system that inhibits, rather than encourages, academic growth, Guggenheim undertakes an exhaustive [...]
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Dear Bloggy-readers, I’m going to only write for the blog for the foreseeable future on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays – simply because I’m out of time! Or at least, it feels as if there’s more pressing needs that I really should be devoting my energies to, and the blog is just going to have to [...]
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Welcome to the Scientiae Carnival for October! Here’s a great (and relevant to the theme of ‘It’s been a while — what’s changed?‘ for this month’s Scientiae) — The Bigger Picture presents us with Ph.D. Pioneers: In 2009, for the first time in the history of U.S. universities, more women than men received doctoral degrees. Reported [...]
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This is a serious back-log that you’ll have to download if you’re not keeping up with the Token Skeptic podcast! Especially now I’ve got the hang of uploading via Dropbox – and yes, that is a tremendous sigh of relief you can hear, because I have so much to broadcast and I’m dying to have [...]
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