Amazing Meeting

If you’re interested in seeing the other video adventures I have, head to the podblackdotcom YouTube Channel. This site will be updated again soon, and I’ll feature a few in a new section

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I would like my readers to notice this particular part in bold, from a blog-post by Dr Barbara Drescher on the Woo Fighters site: On June 10th I posted a solicitation for donations to help us raise $2800 to send four students to The Amazing Meeting 8… …In addition to a very generous donation, Kylie [...]

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I’m really, really pleased to see that people have been checking out the post I wrote about university students needing support to get to TAM8 – and that the link to donate is being used! Thanks so much, it’s great to see that people are willing to support, even with a few dollars, to this [...]

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If you want to help out? Try these college students. They are students who have been working on skeptic and psychology-related projects and have already contributed to a site that indicates their relevant application to future research. During my time as a skeptic – I’ve donated time. A lot of time. I’ve donated my backstage-help, [...]

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Captain Disillusion – TAM7 + Brown Lotto Debunk

by podblack on January 31, 2010

Captain Disillusion’s journey continues when he finds himself in Las Vegas. Or what’s left of it. Then he and Mr. Flare take up “riffing”. The rest of the videos follow:

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From Skeptic Blog – TAM 7 – Miscellaneous mumbling: There is one observation I would like to share with you – and that is the noticeable absence of attendees and panel participants of Asian descent.  This is not the only skeptics movement events where I have noticed this dearth of Asian (especially Chinese and Koreans) [...]

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On Skeptic Conferences – Part Two

by podblack on July 17, 2009

Okay, this will probably be the way-too-long ’post for the day’ – I have been meaning to address a literacy issue, but I think I’ll wait until the weekend to get that done. Those who are unfamiliar with the situation as it stands – read the earlier post ‘On Skeptic Conferences‘. Much of the following stems [...]

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On Skeptic Conferences

by podblack on July 14, 2009

I’ll have to make this a two-parter. Lots to say, no time at the moment. If you’re not interested in this topic,  go listen to Monster Talk. Here’s something I’ve written on Facebook: Firstly – why I’m not too keen on a women-only panel on ‘getting women into skepticism’.

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