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, [...]
by podblack on September 4, 2010
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! [...]
by podblack on August 24, 2010
Two Years Of The Skeptic Zone
by podblack on August 23, 2010
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 [...]
by podblack on August 21, 2010
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 [...]
by podblack on August 21, 2010
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!
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 [...]