Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
New Point of Inquiry podcast episode! This one features one of the great writers for the Australian Book of Atheism, Dr Karen Stollznow, and Warren Bonnett, who you can hear regularly featured on the Token Skeptic podcast Embiggen Books episodes. He’s also featured in a print interview, on the Curiouser and Curiouser column over at [...]
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Go check out Dr Karen Stollznow’s work over at the CSI site (she’ll be at Dragon*Con this year, weee heee! ): Many athletes are famous for their superstitions. Some wear lucky clothing, while others carry good-luck charms, eat a special meal before the game, or practice crippling routines and rituals. The superstitions are praised for [...]
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Here’s the first three of six! Psychic skeptic presentation by Karen Stollznow at the SkeptiCAL conference on April 24th, 2010.
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A response to “female representation. Where the hell is it?” by The Rather Friendly Skeptic. “…why is it only a few women are ever seen speaking at conferences and why do we never see a predominantly female line up at such conferences?” They linked to my site! As Desiree Schell mentioned in the comments of that [...]
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Thanks to Ben Radford for the link! Demonic Possession, Reincarnation, and Xenoglossia: Dr. Karen Stollznow, a linguist and researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, explains that “though glossolalia is the utterance of feigned language, this is not to say the subject intends to deceive. Instead, this phenomenon is more psychological than linguistic (a kind [...]
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Don’t forget to check out the latest Token Skeptic Episode: On How We Only Like You Because You’re Good In Blog – Blogging Skeptically. Submission for ‘We Only Like You Because You’re Good in Blog’ Day! …what we will NOT tolerate are veiled threats or references to violence or sex acts such as those above. [...]
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In what I hope will be a forthcoming Geologic Fancast podcast episode, you may hear me list some of the major accomplishments of Dr Karen Stollznow. What I couldn’t add, as it wasn’t announced formally at the time, was her new position as the co-host of the Point of Inquiry podcast! As DJ Grothe just [...]
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Results include your SearchWiki notes for australasian science naked skeptic. Share these notes Copy and paste this link into an email or IM: See a preview of the shared page I have always enjoyed reading the publication Australasian Science Magazine for the ‘Naked Skeptic’ column that it features – and now one of the contributors [...]
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