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New Token Skeptic Episode – And The Australian Book Of Atheism!

by podblack on August 11, 2010

I have a cold and everything has just slowed down to a crawl because of it. :/ I spent most of the day quietly editing and taking notes on a documentary I hope to use in class on the topic of creationism and intelligent design – so this new episode really cheers me up (even [...]

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Token Skeptic Podcast – Ayaan Hirsi Ali Speaking At Christ Church Grammar

by podblack on August 3, 2010

Later today, the Token Skeptic podcast will be featuring the audio from Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s talk at Christ Church Grammar School. She is the Somali-born former politician once named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Today in the West Australian, there was a brief report about her visit to [...]

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Blog News And The Power of Rational Outreach (And The Place Of Ridicule)

by podblack on July 15, 2010

Just a quick announcement that I’m going to be:
1) Upgrading the blog-site and
2) Working on studies for the rest of the week, so expect only a few updates. School starts for me next week too!
Which makes it a little odd that I then go – Vote For Me for the Big Blog Theory!
After all, this [...]

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Women And Skepticism – The Aftermath

by podblack on July 3, 2010

The following probably isn’t news at all for many of you – essentially, Pharyngula (PZ Myers) in his post The Woman Problem reflected upon another post Where are all the female skeptics at? by SkeptiFem.
This led to PZ urging comments with links to sites – there were even a few very pertinent comments that echo [...]

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Little Kitten – Atheists Don’t Have No Songs – Steve Martin With The Steep Canyon Rangers

by podblack on June 25, 2010

Well, maybe Steve Martin needs to be told about George Hrab, Tim Minchin, and a few others, for a start…

From another angle (and mid-way through song):

And live in Merlefest:

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Introduction To Atheism And Ideas Of God For Teens – What Would You Suggest?

by podblack on June 25, 2010

So – the challenge over my holidays is to start introducing students to religion! And atheism! This is really going to be a lot of fun!
The program involves ‘Ideas of God’ and ‘Religious and Mystical Experience’. While I can find a variety of useful general texts (the likes of AC Grayling, Stephen J Gould, Julian [...]

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