Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
This is quite lovely – I occasionally get questions, but I usually just write large general posts (Skeptical Books for Children after someone asked ‘What’s the consensus on the intersection of science fiction and skepticism/science? What’s the research on the impact of science fiction films and biotechology?‘ is one such example) rather than address them [...]
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Congratulations to “iCharlotte“, who just joined CSIRO!
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DO NOT MISS RADIO! ‘The coming of “The Singularity”…or not?’ Listen to it on All In The Mind on Radio National, 19th September at 1pm and repeated on Monday 21st September, 1pm. In fact, if you do miss it, I’ll be plugging the podcast of it. Endlessly. So you better be ready! Michael McRae has [...]
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Go. Now. Download. Listen. Send in appreciative notes that we need more! Michael McRae is on Australia’s Radio National – again! Implications Of Life Beyond Earth – The Science Show The search for extra-terrestrial intelligence continues. If it is ever found, it will seriously challenge many people’s ideas about the origins of life on Earth. [...]
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Dear Quadrant, I think I’ll attempt a pseudoscience article: kind of the Sokal hoax in reverse. Don’t get me wrong: I liked the Sokal prank as much as Windschuttle did. Showing up hogwash from any ideological stand is a valuable exercise. But I think Australia needs the opposite experiment. From ‘Diary of a Hoax’, hosted [...]
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In a hotel internet kiosk, after a fantastic night – evidence! This was taken with my phone, so not the best quality! But overall, an image really can’t do the event justice. Mike had the audience enthralled with his presentation and I hope that the person filming for BrisScience gets copies out! What particularly struck me was [...]
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Following on from Skeptical Books for Children – Part One; Part Two and Part Three and a segue into gender and literacy with Mind The Gap, as related to the theme of reading strategies. You may note that I’m moving in a rather chronological fashion through the reading years, so I’d suggest you begin from [...]
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Welcome to my sequence of posts for this week! I’m going to be foregrounding some people via online interviews, on a range of topics and issues. My first is Australian Michael McRae, who is currently living and working in Australia’s capital city, Canberra. You’ve had a rich and interesting career, having started as a pathologist [...]
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