Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
Look, as far as I’m concerned, I’m still on my holiday break from solid blogging – and next week it’s pretty much nothing but editing and preparing for the start of classes again for me. So, don’t expect my usual updates or essay-length blog-posts, beyond some favorite YouTube videos. I’m meant to be on a [...]
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From Skeptic Blog – TAM 7 – Miscellaneous mumbling: There is one observation I would like to share with you – and that is the noticeable absence of attendees and panel participants of Asian descent. This is not the only skeptics movement events where I have noticed this dearth of Asian (especially Chinese and Koreans) [...]
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On Facebook, Amazing Meeting presenter Margaret Downey posted a picture of a secular Jewish Bat Mitzvah. Penn Jillette responded with the following comments: Oh dear. Are in favor of “cultural jews.” I mean, isn’t that just racism? I don’t get it. I”m not kidding. This makes me very uncomfortable. I don’t see how pride in [...]
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I don’t think I link to the blog of Digital Cuttlefish enough, but if you’re seriously looking for excellent verse that has recently been published in the recent Australian Skeptic and is regularly lauded for appearances in some of the best science and skeptic blogs out there – head to their site. You can even [...]
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The third day of the Lunar New Year is traditionally regarded as unlucky to visit other people’s homes. So people turned up in droves at the Che Kung temple in Sha Tin to spin the wheels and bang the drums in the hopes of gaining good luck in the Year of the Ox. Police estimated [...]
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A lot of my time recently has been taken up with: Transcribing qualitative research; Working on catching up on all the mp3s and reading for my Parapsychology Online Unit through the Uni of Edinburgh; Learning and playing around with my paranormal, pseudoscience and conspiracy theory research on the RUMM stats software program; Revising and rewriting [...]
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Welcome to my 1000th blog entry! You wonder why ‘part four’? Educate yourself, the same way I’ve been doing for the past year as a part of my Masters degree in Education, looking at what very well may be the biggest sample of Australians on paranormal, pseduoscientific AND conspiracy theory beliefs yet! Part One; Part [...]
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