Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
This is just a quick plug for those who are in the area and are wondering about some of the activities going on that I help out with. The next Philosophy Cafe will be held on Tuesday, August 11th, from 7.30pm at the University of Notre Dame at the old Fremantle Hotel (now Fairweathers) in [...]
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Dear Readers (of which there’s an average of about 500 a day, so hello x 500!), There’s a lot of features on this blog. Some links to the lengthier essay-style blog posts called Skepticism – Gender, Activism and Education… which I admit contains information that could be better utilised elsewhere or reworked to be more [...]
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From New Scientist: Supersense - Bruce M. Hood, a psychologist at the University of Bristol, UK, reckons that we are equipped with a “supersense” that tunes into a hidden (and, let’s face it, almost certainly imaginary) world of spirits, fates and spooky connections. Thanks to the supersense, objects such as pens and cardigans can be imbued [...]
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Ah, I adore E, my regular commentator under many guises. And deliverer of LolCat goodness! Anyway, after E sent me an article today on superstitious beliefs amongst politicians, I countered with the blog entry I wrote a while back on the issue – Political Punditry On McCain’s Magical Thinking: The notion of ‘magical thinking‘ has [...]
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Dean Baird takes some very good photos, by the way. One of the Sunday paper presenters at TAM6 has a brand-new website up - ‘Tools For Skeptics’, “The purpose of the site is to assist the skeptic movement with better software tools“. For free? As an experienced site-creating consultant? Or based on assumptions about the internet [...]
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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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So, Amnesty International are doing a bit of a phone-around recently, getting a friend to sign onto their charity. They’re doing some awareness-raising about the situation in China, with a goal to construct huge yellow ‘walls’ all over Australia to represent the Chinese internet censorship regime known as the Golden Shield or the Great Firewall [...]
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PodBlack Cat
Women and Superstitions – Part Three
by podblack on June 10, 2008
Following on from Women and Superstitions Part One and Women and Superstitions Part Two. Again, despite my own skepticism, I’d like to reiterate something – belief in weird things like charms, psychics, or conspiracies does not lead to justifiably claiming that someone must be stupid, insane, foolish or even irreversibly gullible. There’s plenty of people, [...]
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