Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
I’ve been attempting to find the correct name for this for some time! As someone who attended classes in Australian Sign Language and learned a little of the history of sign and how there are issues with lip-reading, this is well worth viewing and reflecting upon. Wikipedia: The McGurk effect is sometimes called the McGurk-MacDonald [...]
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A claim that music can sound like ingesting a psychoactive plant! My first inclination was to talk to Barbara of ICBS Everywhere, about whether ‘Salvia Divinorum Frequency Emulation’ might have something to do with synesthesia… but then as I read on, I discovered that it’s a ‘no’. a Stunning Acoutic Frequency Emulation DOWNLOAD YOUR FREQUENCY [...]
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I love being in NZ – I use Air NZ when traveling and have stopped off in Auckland a number of times when heading to the USA. This, however, is a brand-new find for me and I seriously hope that other conferences will follow the New Zealand Skeptics example! They just had their conference, held [...]
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Just got back from a meeting with the Perth Atheists, which I really should expand upon later; I think there’s some elements that are of interest nationally in regards to submissions that members of the group are going to make to a document about freedom of religion that appeal to both skeptics and atheists (or [...]
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Check it out – The 2008 Dragon*Con Podcasting Feed! “Live recorded podcasts, parties, interviews, and news about the convention“! Naturally, I’m zipping over to some of the panels I missed, like ‘Astronomy Cast Live!‘ (‘with host Dr. Pamela Gay and special guests Dr. Kevin Grazier and Dr. Phil Plait’); The Brain Science Podcast, Live!; ‘Podcasting [...]
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Remember the saga of the PEAR cables and Randi calling them out on their quality claims? Well, claims are one thing but… …cold hard proof is another, and it looks like a group of 12 self-professed “audiophiles” recently couldn’t tell the difference between Monster 1000 speaker cables and plain old coat hangers. Yeah, coat hangers. [...]
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