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Step To It Science Superstitions (I Don’t Cheerlead In These Shoes)

by podblack on November 20, 2008

My Science is Hotter than Dr. Isis’s Naughty Monkeys Because… Yeah, monkeys can be bad. But not as bad-ass as my tango shoes. You’re saying you do science in those shoes? Science doesn’t require one to dress up pretty to get the job done. I could do a variety of things in these shoes, but [...]

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In The Internet Age, But What Internet Knowledge?

by podblack on June 22, 2008

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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My Mascot Only Gave Me Sex Appeal

by podblack on May 21, 2008

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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