Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
I have some news! But I’m tired after a day of teaching, writing, submitting, explaining, running from one end of the campus to the other in the rain and having lunch with a friend who is now looking for a job elsewhere. Oh, and what was on the front page of The West today? Urgh. [...]
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Few things have happened recently — firstly, it has started to rain INSIDE my house, resulting in canceling a meeting in order to figure out whether or not to save the television from being a temporary colander for electronic parts. I am tempted to head down the ‘sink or swim’ path, but I really want [...]
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Admittedly, I’ve had one little discussion (hopefully not too heated!) with a blog-commentator about ‘how many women will feature at the Global Atheist Convention 2012‘ and I essentially summed up my views with ‘Look at what’s featured so far; compare the line-up so far to how 2010 turned out; feel free to send in your views to [...]
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Exams? Check. Reports written? Check. Psychology units complete for this semester? Check. Phew. Impending new classes that I’ll have to teach for the next three weeks (which I haven’t taught before), final copy, transcripts, more grading, overdue podcast episodes and interviews… ergh? Oh, look, an article about the Community of Inquiry method which I teach, [...]
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Thanks to Prof Daniel Simons (on Twitter), one of the authors of ‘The Invisible Gorilla And Other Ways Our Intuition Deceive Us‘ for this funny find! The Perth Skeptics bookclub will be discussing his book this Friday, 1st July. Also a good read and on the research within the book: Why Seeing (The Unexpected) Is Often [...]
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Just thought I’d do a shout-out for the Global Atheist Convention while Tim Minchin was on Twitter – didn’t expect a response!
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Fantastic news! As reported in Reuters - New York Governor Signs Law Approving Gay Marriage: Governor Andrew Cuomo made same-sex marriages legal in New York on Friday, a key victory for gay rights ahead of the 2012 presidential and congressional elections. New York will become the sixth and most populous U.S. state to allow gay marriage. State [...]
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