Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
Just a quick announcement that I’m going to be: 1) Upgrading the blog-site and 2) Working on studies for the rest of the week, so expect only a few updates. School starts for me next week too! Which makes it a little odd that I then go – Vote For Me for the Big Blog [...]
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Since I’ve had correspondence with two people now on this topic – here are my tips about the running of a skeptic quiz at a ‘Skeptics in the Pub / courtyard / lecture room / what have you’. I ran a quiz last month for the Perth Skeptics, but because we have our get-togethers from [...]
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I love this: NASA names cosmic treadmill after Colbert – CNN.com – what do you do when you’re NASA and comedian Stephen Colbert wins your contest to name the new wing for the International Space Station? You name an orbital exercise machine after him.
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All the details as to ‘why, why, why in all that’s holy, why??’ by clicking the following picture: and no, I am NOT going to convince either one of my dance teachers to do a tango with me in a bear costume. I’ll let someone else perform that idea for me and send them my [...]
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Now, I’ve heard that there’s someone making a Wikipedia page for the Skeptic Zone podcast (or maybe it was just for me, after I updated my CV on this site and they wrote ‘damn, how come you’re not profiled more as a female sceptic??’ and I went ‘well, maybe staying sober has its disadvantages after [...]
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Okay, okay, maybe the dance shoes could be useful when doing science… Now, I mentioned this competition in passing a while back, but wasn’t sure how many people were keenly awaiting the results… ‘Winning entry in the graduate-student division by Sue Lynn Lau of the University of Sydney in Australia, whose thesis is titled, “The [...]
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Yes, it’s been released. Here’s a photo I got of Michael Stackpole enjoying his copy – but mine has been edited, ha ha ha! And I’m thinking I might just donate my copy that I got (ah, Amazon.com, you are so nice to send on zippy post!) mine to whoever wants to send in what [...]
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Dear readers – that is, if there’s any readers left after my shocking lack of content recently, you might as well do The Podblack Suggestion Box Survey, hint, hint… I’ll shut it down on the 26th September, so any feedback up to then is very much appreciated. Now, I know that I promised to blog [...]
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