Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
People may have noticed that there’s a slow but steady release of news about the Global Atheist Convention (understandable for not only building up interest – it’s nearly a year away, takes a lot of planning and coordination and quite frankly off to a great start already with an announcement of headline speakers Richard Dawkins, [...]
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Bored of seeing pro-psychic shows where inevitably someone is going to be awarded ‘the winning psychic’ with no credible evidence? Sad that despite the end of Oprah, pseudoscience will still be peddled on TV? Sickened that Channel 7 returns to air for a second season ‘The One‘ — which previously featured a ‘psychic search’ for [...]
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According to a rather well-timed Tweet, the advertising for the over-the-counter cold medication Codral no longer urges those of us with a snuffy nose and an itchy throat to ‘soldier on’. Now it’s all about taking it easy and relaxing, rather than steadfastly stomping off to work with blurred vision, a hideously puffed face and [...]
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I’ve enjoyed ‘Octopus makes own movie‘ — now here’s a big-cat directorial debut. While shooting pictures for our new book on lions at Tswalu Kalahari Game Reserve, we found some lions patrolling the fence line. We placed our GoPro action camera in their path hoping to catch a glimpse of them as they came past. [...]
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Additional note — UWA Atheists and Skeptics are doing a lunchtime talktorial on Power Balance this Thursday, at the Weatherburn Lecture Theatre, Mathematics Buildings, from 3-5pm. It’s thanks to the ACCC and consumer rights and awareness groups like Choice, who have managed to bring Power Balance Bands to a halt. You can hear an interview [...]
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A new YouTube’d video series is out — FIRIS seeks to ensure fair and equal religious education for Victorian Public School students. Questions are raised about the suitability of ACCESS Ministries. Sophie discusses her concerns with the present arrangement that allows ACCESS Ministries to view Victorian public schools as a “Mission Field” for evangelism and [...]
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It’s Saturday here, has been Saturday for a while. Around midnight I casually changed my Twitter avatar to feature the cover of Blondie’s single ‘Rapture’, and have bantered online with friends about how we’ll get together on a Sunday to enjoy one of the regular ‘irregular’ lunches that we often enjoy. Other than that, I’ve [...]
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