by podblack on April 23, 2010
Just a update, from a CNN news article: Blogger: Show cleavage to test cleric’s quake theory ..She said no woman should feel pressured to participate. “It’s not supposed to be serious activism that is going to revolutionize women’s rights, but just a bit of fun juvenile humor,” she wrote. “I’m a firm believer that when [...]
by podblack on October 31, 2009
The episode out today on the Skeptic Zone podcast features a panel discussion from the Science Track at Dragon*Con — called “Darwin’s Bulldogs, Teachers on the Front Lines”. This panel was proposed by the moderator Matt Lowry, who is a high school physics teacher and a part-time Physics and Astronomy college professor. Joining him was [...]
by podblack on November 1, 2008
So, I’m Australian. That means that I pretty much keep out of the more recent US political wrangling and writing on the subject, unless I find it particularly relevant to my research into superstition and thus ripe for related blogging material or find a particular parody or video that I know that friends might be [...]
by podblack on May 1, 2008
Now, you SHOULD be listening to the latest episode of Skepticality! Expelled Exposed! Interview: Dr. Eugenie Scott “This week on Skepticality, Swoopy talks with Dr. Eugenie Scott about her participation in Expelled, her thoughts on seeing the film — and the “Expelled: Exposed” website, created by the National Center for Science Education (where Dr. Scott serves as the [...]
by podblack on March 27, 2008
The latest Skeptic: A Journal of Fact and Opinion is out – and I’m a cover girl again! Yeah, I’m being a student, studying the lessons of supposed ‘psychic investigators’, helping Richard Saunders make the cover snappy… but more important, the article by Karen Stollznow is featured! “Communicating with Murder Victims” – it’s a killer! [...]