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I Has Parapsychology Certificate!

by podblack on January 29, 2009

Neener! I did an online unit! I’m going to get this framed!

That is my Certificate of Completion for the Introduction to Parapsychology Course, run by the Koestler Parapsychology Unit at the University of Edinburgh!
This new short course (commenced September 2008) is taught entirely online and is open to anyone regardless of geographical location. It is [...]

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Skeptics on skeptical thinking - Saturday 1pm – repeated Monday 1pm Presented by Natasha Mitchell.

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Nobody likes being told their most cherished beliefs are based on myth and misconception. But the global skeptics movement does just that. In the classroom and beyond, All in the Mind excavates the nature of the [...]

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Origami Pigasus Earrings!

by podblack on May 13, 2008

Honestly, this is probably just an excuse for me to boast that I was one of the first to get a few of these pairs. But darn it, you should join in!
Richard Saunders, co-host of the TANK Vodcast has been industriously making origami earrings! This has been a talent he’s had up his sleeve [/gratuitous [...]

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Look, there’s no legitimate way that I can praise Dr Karen ‘Skepbitch’ Stollznow’s checking out Sylvia Browne in Utah – without launching into song:
The Atheist Tabernacle Choir – by Spitting Image

So, enjoy the tune as you check out her blog entry over at her site – Skepbitch!
“Eat, drink, be merry – for tomorrow you [...]

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Skepticism And Scholarship – Dr Mark Henn

by podblack on February 22, 2008

Back into my series of interviews for this week! My next blog interview is with a man who is at the coalface of educating and researching beliefs in weird things.
Dr Mark Henn is from the University of New Hampshire’s Psychology Department, which contains a grad program that values teaching enough to actually spend time [...]

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Investigating Skepticism – Dr Karen Stollznow

by podblack on February 19, 2008

Welcome again to my series of interviews for this week! I’m very proud to profile Dr Karen Stollznow, the Associate Editor of the Australian Skeptic.
Karen has spent a decade investigating and writing about the paranormal and pseudoscientific, but she still hasn?t seen a ghost. Karen is a researcher for the Script Encoding Initiative through [...]

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