atheism

If you’re reading this due to the Freethought Blogs – read this. Thanks! During my time interacting with skeptical and atheist groups – I have seen evidence of people assuming that skepticism and atheism are one and the same. More often than not, it’s from co-workers or family members, who think that ‘a skeptic equals [...]

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New Point of Inquiry podcast episode! This one features one of the great writers for the Australian Book of Atheism, Dr Karen Stollznow, and Warren Bonnett, who you can hear regularly featured on the Token Skeptic podcast Embiggen Books episodes. He’s also featured in a print interview, on the Curiouser and Curiouser column over at [...]

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George Hrab Australian Tour Dates Announced!

by podblack on October 10, 2010

The image is thanks to the Skeptics in the Pub NZ (and Catherine of Faster Pussycat Productions, the brains behind the brilliance of getting this together!): So – if you’re in Brisbane, Melbourne, Christchurch, Auckland, Adelaide or Canberra – come and catch this show. Will be not only very funny, but very clever, very pro-skeptical [...]

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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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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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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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