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Evan Maloney – Fry’d Out And Missed The Twitter Party

by podblack on April 14, 2009

Is Twitter just a form of textual paparazzi? – Evan Maloney:
…When I joined Twitter a month or two ago I started following Stephen Fry partly because of the enticing NYC lift opportunity and partly because, as a Frenchman once remarked, brevity is the soul of wit, Stephen is witty, and so it will be interesting [...]

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Pink Dolphin Appears In US Lake

by podblack on March 9, 2009

Dr A sent this to me to cheer me up – hope it helps you too. Mind, the reporting isn’t accurate when it says it’s ‘the only one’. From The Telegraph, UK:
The world’s only pink Bottlenose dolphin which was discovered in an inland lake in Louisiana, USA, has become such an attraction that conservationists [...]

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From Churches To Cockatoos

by admin on July 21, 2008

Right! No real blogging for the next few days due to stats class. BUT, there’s a recently installed spam-catcher (deletes idiot rants about WYD straight to the bin unread! Oh, Critical Mass has their own account about Christians sadly not acting at all ‘Christian’ with their shocking on-the-scene account in Sydney with Violent Pilgrims [...]

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Girls Got What? Competitions, Science Careers And Benefits

by podblack on May 18, 2008

Yes, I’m certain you have, as I have been, following Science Women’s blog after PZ ‘Pharyngula’ Myers pointed out that she’s live-blogging the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair.
Two things that get to me:
First – like her, I look forward to the day when nobody notices that there is either girls (or boys) are winning [...]

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Finally! Hobart Conference Day Two!

by podblack on December 29, 2007

… bet you thought I forgot. No, I was just waiting for my copy of the Australian Skeptics Magazine to reach me, so I can do the goofy pose with me as cover-girl:

… goofy pose over. Back to business.
After the brilliant dinner the night before – which was a lot like this, with Pigasus stealing [...]

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I’ll Be in a Hotel By Now…

by podblack on November 17, 2007

Where am I? I’m in Hobart, Tasmania. It will kind of look like this:

The Australian Skeptics conference is on – with the theme of “The Use and Abuse of Scientific Data in the Environment Debate”. Quite apt that it’s being held in Hobart, considering Tasmania’s history of environmental activism.
I’ll probably be abusing Richard Saunders in [...]

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