Dragon*con

Live-Blogging – Skepticism, Scams And Consumerism

by podblack on September 4, 2010

I’m at the Skeptic Track room — about to watch Prof. Barbara Drescher, Richard Saunders, Dr Rachael Dunlop, Donna Mugavero and Tom Merritt talk about skepticism, scams and consumerism! Apparently there are a lot of Australians following the Live Stream, which you can find at http://www.skeptrack.org/watch-live. This is about the fifth panel of the day, [...]

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Token Skeptic Dragon*Con 2010 – First Day

by podblack on September 4, 2010

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An Update On The Flight…

by podblack on August 30, 2010

Approximately twenty minutes time. Flight delays. This time, as I wait in the Qantas lounge, there are no loud members of a well-known band talking about ‘Lars and the Real Girl’ – however, there are the ubiqutous UK-accented fellow passengers loudly dictating their Facebook updates: ‘Tell her we Haven’t. Left. Yet!’ ‘We Nout. Left. Yet! [...]

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Two Years Of The Skeptic Zone Podcast

by podblack on August 24, 2010

Two Years Of The Skeptic Zone

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I’ve had continuing health problems, a week ahead of me full of planning and coordinating lessons for the fortnight that I’m away… and Dragon*Con itself to plan for, along with all the travel! :/ So, it’s only fair to warn you that I’m going to try to blog while on the road rather than over the [...]

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It’s taken a while, but I have finally printed out a handful of pages and figured out exactly where I am and where the members of the Skeptic Zone podcast will be at Dragon*Con… which is happening at the end of this month. Sodding hell. It’s not very far away! First — drum roll… appearances [...]

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This is by Doctor Atlantis — one of the hosts of Monster Talk and I’ll see him at Dragon*Con this year! Yay! The 8/19/2010 episode of SyFy’s show “Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files” included an investigation of a graveyard phantom. The team missed something pretty obvious — the actual solution!

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Women And Skepticism – The Aftermath

by podblack on July 3, 2010

The following probably isn’t news at all for many of you – essentially, Pharyngula (PZ Myers) in his post The Woman Problem reflected upon another post Where are all the female skeptics at? by SkeptiFem. This led to PZ urging comments with links to sites – there were even a few very pertinent comments that [...]

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