Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
Dear readers – that is, if there’s any readers left after my shocking lack of content recently, you might as well do The Podblack Suggestion Box Survey, hint, hint… I’ll shut it down on the 26th September, so any feedback up to then is very much appreciated. Now, I know that I promised to blog [...]
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I know that there’s perhaps a few people who aren’t aware of the work going on in Australia to encourage philosophy and critical thinking for the younger age groups. In fact, considering the work that’s going on with P4C in over sixty countries, it’s kind of funny how many people still ask about ‘what’s going [...]
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Brand new site! Great collaborators willing to point you in the direction of research and links! Welcome to Translucent Science: Specialist blogs can be fascinating but most of them have a very small reach when compared to mainstream media. When bloggers highlight mistakes or poor coverage of an issue, few people know about it. Translucent [...]
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Appears that DORE is getting a little more attention in the Australasian Journal Of Special Education? Big thanks to Brainduck who brought it to my attention! Within seconds I was leaping over university firewalls and downloading the pdf to give it a good look. But it wasn’t just one article, but two! Although I’ve always [...]
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Back in the 1980s, Richard Saunders turned up on an Australian TV show I used to watch all the time – you might spot ‘Gail and Gillian’ the twin-hosts! The show is ‘Wombat’ and Richard even shows you how to fold a basic duck! Of course, you can check out some of his other videos [...]
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Women’s Wear Daily raises the question – are glasses just plain stylish rather than necessarily functional? The social swirl these days is looking less like a scene out of “High Society” and more like something straight from “Revenge of the Nerds.” Actresses Cate Blanchett, Amy Sedaris and Dana Delaney have all hit the red carpet [...]
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The moments when I get emails saying ‘Honestly, I have NO idea how I got here from clicking links on YouTube…HONESTLY!‘ are always interesting ones. In this case, it’s a vodcast show – The Midwest Teen Sex Show. And despite the very clear disclaimer that it’s intended for teens and adults, with material inappropriate for [...]
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Back in April of this year, I was in touch with Alasdair Jeffrey – otherwise known as the The Bullshit Detective. Lovely fellow, very pleased to hear that people were interested in his work which promotes the practical application of critical thinking in regards to scams and frauds. And there’s a great many of them, [...]
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