by podblack on September 28, 2010
From the ABC site, the show of Maynard (who you’ve heard a few times on the Skeptic Zone show): “Skeptical Night At Bar On The Hill”. Download this mp3 file Richard Saunders and Dr Rachael Dunlop hosted a night of critical thinking at The University of Newcastle’s Bar On The Hill on Saturday night. It [...]
by podblack on June 18, 2008
First, I would suggest you read the book review (and even the book!) I wrote on a young woman’s account of leaving the Hillsong Church: I first learned of the Hillsong Church via two sources: one was Peter Bowditch’s Millenium Project site and an interview with Tanya Levin by Andrew Denton on Enough Rope – [...]
by podblack on May 1, 2008
I’ve seen division based upon egos. I’ve seen wasted money, wasted resources, wasted time and a lot of rallying that doesn’t make for empirical change to their local school, community, state or country. People thinking it’s funny. A lot of waiting for something I could actually use in high school classes that wouldn’t get shut [...]
by podblack on March 3, 2008
Right — now we’ve got actress-nonsense-who-cares out of the way, let’s get to real news: Dr Krissie Wilson is on Counterpoint, today! FBI agent Fox Mulder in the TV series The X-Files had a poster on his office wall which read, I Want To Believe. In the 21st century people are prepared to believe in [...]
by podblack on February 28, 2008
Finally!! On the 5th February, I was interviewed as the ‘skeptic voice’ (whether or not I sound reasonable I leave up to you) for Statewide ABC radio on the topic of UFOs and the claims of an investigator. I blogged about the experience earlier and gave some of my background research in this post here. [...]
by podblack on February 9, 2008
Well in fact, nearly my entire radio interview! I was on ABC Statewide Radio this week, as the ‘voice of skeptical reason’ after Bill Chalker presented a rerun of the 2005 tale of a ‘blonde Nordic alien babe’ hair sample (… yes…) as proof of alien life. Unfortunately, it seems that something got lost in [...]
by podblack on January 22, 2008
I had another radio interview today! With Ron Tait of ABC radio, a keen and friendly critical thinker who is hoping to encourage more questioning in his community – we’re seeing about a regular spot on the show, so I’ll be writing up a lot of ideas and responding to issues we raised! Ron touched [...]