book recommendations

Skeptical Parenting – Suggested Books For A Birthday!

by podblack on December 9, 2008

First, I have to do a shout-out to one impending birthday – Gia Milinovich and Brian Cox are expecting a baby! Gia’s a TV presenter, enjoys taking photos, is helping out with the CERN Podcast, is married to physicist Professor Brian Cox and thinks writing about herself in the third person is “cool”. She also [...]

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Tricks In The Trade – From Pseudoscience To Surviving Research Trips

by podblack on October 29, 2008

On the chosen theme for Scientiae Carnival for October. Last Friday I watched my former students (from my form class, a kind of quasi-pastoral care program involving being with a group of students since Year 8 ) graduate from their final year of high-school. Out of the fourteen, there were saw thirteen graduands from that [...]

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Best Reads – Where Is The Science?

by podblack on June 26, 2008

From Slashdot: “A recent headline at Entertainment Weekly suggests that the ’100 Best Reads’ of the last 25 years do not include a single science book (not even a popular science book). In response, cosmologist Sean Carroll at Cosmic Variance has given an interesting analysis of EW’s disappointing list, and Soul Physics is calling for [...]

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Séances, Saunders’ Speech And Jackie Chan Kicks Off Science!

by podblack on March 10, 2008

It’s been a busy and interesting day, with several new items popping up – firstly, however, you should check out a sneak preview of what the next TANK vodcast will feature! Richard’s talk on “Fakes, Frauds and Fools” – the international presentation that has traveled across the USA and even on the Alaskan Amaz!ng Adventure [...]

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