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Wonderful Pro-Skeptic Australians Donating To Student’s TAM8 Fund!

by podblack on June 25, 2010

I would like my readers to notice this particular part in bold, from a blog-post by Dr Barbara Drescher on the Woo Fighters site: On June 10th I posted a solicitation for donations to help us raise $2800 to send four students to The Amazing Meeting 8… …In addition to a very generous donation, Kylie [...]

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“Badgertastics!” – Treatments For Somnambulism In Adults

by podblack on February 15, 2010

“Don’t leave the duck there. It’s totally irresponsible. Put it on the swing, it’ll have much more fun.” Sleep Talkin’ Man. This blog-post is inspired by the fact that I just fell solidly out of bed and onto a book. Nice hardcover edition of Phillip Pullman’s ‘His Dark Materials’ omnibus. Seriously ouch-y. I woke up [...]

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Science, So What About That Misuse Of Wikipedia (Revisited)?

by podblack on February 14, 2010

A little earlier I posted on some examples of what I’d usually consider to be plagiarism, in a post called Science – So What (?) Is Being Really Communicated About The Shape Of Jobs To Come? Now it’s been reported in the Time Higher Education Supplement! ‘Misleading’ science career report criticised, by Zoe Corbyn: A [...]

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Science – So What (?) Is Being Really Communicated About The Shape Of Jobs To Come?

by podblack on January 25, 2010

Thanks to the keen efforts of fellow bloggers in the UK like Gimpy’s Blog, Holford Watch, 10Minus9 and Evidence Matters, I did a little bit of reading on the recently produced report by Fast Future called ‘The Shape of Jobs to Come‘ (pdf). As a teacher of teenagers, I was somewhat interested in how it [...]

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Congratulations Digital Cuttlefish – 2009 Open Laboratory Contributor!

by podblack on January 13, 2010

Congratulations to the Digital Cuttlefish for getting into the annual Open Laboratory for the THIRD time!! Announcing the posts that will be published in The Open Laboratory 2009! The Cuttlefish Genome project, by the Digital Cuttlefish. Very very well done to all the entries, I was really pleased to note quite a few bloggers who [...]

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Skeptic Podcasts Need Love Too (And Reviews)!

by podblack on January 12, 2010

Podcast on sports superstitions! People hiding cursed clothing underneath a stadium! Koalas entering the city in search for water before they take Manhattan and then Berlin! Okay, maybe not that last part. I make a special mention at the end of this week’s Token Skeptic podcast episode, a nod to Sean the Blogonaut who reviewed [...]

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Gravitational Pull Puts Pepsi Up Your… Where?

by podblack on February 10, 2009

My blog has been a little post-filled recently – but I have real-world concerns and must devote more time to them! But before I head back into the world of work and avoid regular blogging for a little bit longer – some Carnival Love coming your way: Encephalon blog carnival! Encephalon…. the late prize winning [...]

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Well, I Never Thought It’d Hit Wikipedia… More Barnett Barney LBC 97.3

by podblack on February 7, 2009

In a February 2009 show, Barnett’s topics included the MMR vaccine, in which she and some callers expressed negative opinions of the vaccination, allopathic medicine in general, and disagreed that recent disease outbreaks should be blamed on parents that choose not to vaccinate their children. The discussion attracted considerable criticism of its accuracy and possible [...]

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