Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
I’d like to announce that everything I did was a lie. Sandra Bernhard, Without You, I’m Nothing. Tomorrow I have a meeting with my supervisors about my thesis. That will be pretty much the final stage in terms of the work I’ve been doing. The reason why I started this site is straight-forward. Other people [...]
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WAY too busy to blog and I’m far too busy to catch up with things online – just busy busy busy. Nutty busy. New Token Skeptic podcast episode out TONIGHT over at www.tokenskeptic.org! It’ll be about the forthcoming QED Convention! Panel Announcement: What is skeptical outreach, and how does it differ to scientific outreach? Should [...]
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WAAHHH It’s on The Guardian website as a guest post! Absolutely thrilled to see the company I’m keeping – Leslie Cannold also has an article online! ‘Abortion is about balancing rights – religious medics don’t get the final say’. Do check it out! Many, many thanks to Martin Robbins and to Warren Bonett who made [...]
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Juuuuusssstttt… uploading podcast ep. Might take a little while! So, essentially, it’s been busy-busy around here and I’ve written a lengthy outline of some of the things that have been going on over at the Token Skeptic site – it’s a script of what I’ll say on the show and you can read it and [...]
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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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The waiting is over! New issue of The Skeptic (22.3) now available at the UK Skeptics site. Not only but also… this edition includes an interview with Professor Bruce M Hood, plus a book review of his work ‘Supersense’ / ‘The Science of Superstition’ (I have gifted so many copies of it to so many [...]
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Go, read, enjoy! Curiouser and Curiouser at the CSI Website. Especially the picture of winner Brian Dunning with his Parsec Award! Since 2008 I’ve volunteered to work behind the scenes at the Skeptic Track (or as it’s more fondly known as, ‘SkepTrack’), after being told by Skepticality podcast’s Derek Colanduno that it was a ‘don’t [...]
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