Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
This one is a belated musical thank-you to the lovely Crispian Jago, who mentions my blog in the Pod Delusion New Year Awards! I’m very appreciative and show it via silly YouTube stolen clips. Earlier I found this version — Little Kitten – Doctor Who As Belgian Jazz — which was after I watched the [...]
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How did the Skeptic Zone Podcast do in 2009? What can we improve on? What have you liked so far and what would you like to see more of? We’ve done it before – and we’re doing it again! Please enter in for the Skeptic Zone 2009 Survey. This fairly basic demographic survey will help [...]
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A few new developments on the horizon and looks like the off-line life is going to be a little more serious than usual for a while too. For people who haven’t checked out all the work on this site (there’s actually quite a bit, the more I look over it, which honestly surprises me) – [...]
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Great article in the Guardian, by Dr Ben Goldacre – A vintage year. Expect more in 2010 It has been a vintage year for dodgy science in government. We saw reports on cocaine that were disappeared, dodgy evidence to justify DNA retention, and government advisers who estimated the cost of piracy at 10% of GDP, [...]
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As featured on the Skeptic Zone podcast – this year has been an excellent one for new books – some of my favorites published this year include: SuperSense: Why We Believe in the Unbelievable by Bruce M Hood. The Skeptic Zone interview is on episode thirty and you can also read the interview in the [...]
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This is mostly because one of my top five-fave musicians is Thomas Dolby. Remastered for 2009. Note, the video is still from 1982, yet you can see a ‘steam-punk’ style even back then. Enjoy.
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I love being in NZ – I use Air NZ when traveling and have stopped off in Auckland a number of times when heading to the USA. This, however, is a brand-new find for me and I seriously hope that other conferences will follow the New Zealand Skeptics example! They just had their conference, held [...]
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Thanks to Miss Baker’s Biology Class! In order to celebrate, the Coalition on the Public Understanding of Science (COPUS) has built a Year of Science website detailing the list of events planned for this monumental year. COPUS is financed by the American Institute of Biological Sciences, a non-profit founded in 1947 as part of the [...]
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