Bad Astronomer

Bad Universe – Sneak Peek!

by podblack on July 23, 2010

“Coming soon, it’s all NEW on Discovery! Take a sneak peek at Bad Universe, a new series starring Phil Plait, an astronomer on a mission to debunk all the the junk myths about the universe.”

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The Bad Astronomer’s Speech At TAM8

by podblack on July 17, 2010

This is with very big thanks to Espilon Clue, who features the majority of the speech. There are some arguments he makes at the end, and Dr Phil Plait responds in the comments – I hope Dr Plait includes in the promised ‘blog-follow-up’ he has planned, the post by Tribal Scientist. You can see his [...]

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Bad Astronomer On LA Ink

by podblack on March 1, 2010

Click to head to the LA Ink site!

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Via the BA and the SWIFT article: As you may know, the JREF is sponsoring a vaccination drive in Las Vegas to coincide with The Amaz!ng Meeting 7, to be held from July 9-12. This drive was the brainchild of pediatrician and skeptic Joe Albietz, who has worked very hard to get this to happen. [...]

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I can’t decide. I really can’t… First – that the fantastic news that a friend of mine, Michael McRae, who was at TAM6 and is the Science By Email CSIRO writer… is now going to hit radio big time! He got footage whilst at the Amazing Meeting 6 (as you might remember, the last one [...]

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Denver Alien Video – Perhaps

by podblack on May 31, 2008

I blogged about this previously – here’s the video that according to Peckman, will “show the alien blinking and breathing.” I personally found the footage from Signs to have a marginally better plot, more cheap thrills and a children’s party complete with fairy bread. ETA – by the way, just for more laughs, Bryan Bonner, [...]

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Vote Denver Aliens 2008! …Or Not

by podblack on May 11, 2008

*Flops head onto desk* *starts rolling from side to side* *deep breath* *begins bopping head on the squidgy wrist-rest of the mousepad* That behaviour used to really help me on a very full-timetable day. Perhaps you may find it of use, after looking at this item. Man Pushes Creation of Panel to Prepare City for [...]

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Little Kitten – Show Mythbusters Some Love

by podblack on March 17, 2008

With or without a koala.

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