Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
Welcome to the Scientiae Carnival for October! Here’s a great (and relevant to the theme of ‘It’s been a while — what’s changed?‘ for this month’s Scientiae) — The Bigger Picture presents us with Ph.D. Pioneers: In 2009, for the first time in the history of U.S. universities, more women than men received doctoral degrees. Reported [...]
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It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these… and it’s probably about time, considering how little ‘proper blogging’ I’ve done while on the road / working as a teacher again / writing the thesis / editing anthology / writing for CSI’s website / doing podcasts… okay, maybe I have a few excuses up [...]
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Just as I’ve been enjoying reading the very skeptically-minded breakdown (and an excellent one at that) of ‘Is that a fallacy in your pocket or can you cite some sources? A Response to “Feminism at TAM”‘ — here’s some more skepticism! From the official site: “In October 2008 Tim worked with Animator Martin White to [...]
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Just a quick announcement that I’m going to be: 1) Upgrading the blog-site and 2) Working on studies for the rest of the week, so expect only a few updates. School starts for me next week too! Which makes it a little odd that I then go – Vote For Me for the Big Blog [...]
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From Decficio Mens: Women in Skepticism: Breakdown of the data. (Do note, they write – ‘I know that this is NOT a scientific study, nor a statistically sound sample, nor anything like that. Still, I believe that the data in response to the question asked can be quite illuminating.‘) This is a small section from [...]
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The quick and dirty world of women’s magazines from Christine Ottery from Women’s Mag! A great site, lots of discussion and resources there. I met Petra Boynton to discuss women’s magazines, and in particular sex surveys, dodgy experts, and the mixed and confusing messages that women’s mags send out about women’s sexuality. To put pressure [...]
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A response to “female representation. Where the hell is it?” by The Rather Friendly Skeptic. “…why is it only a few women are ever seen speaking at conferences and why do we never see a predominantly female line up at such conferences?” They linked to my site! As Desiree Schell mentioned in the comments of that [...]
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This is due to the Twitters of Dr Petra Boynton, who you can hear interviewed on the Skeptic Zone podcast (episode #78) – The UK Mirror has also picked up on the story. The ‘Ask Danny’ column in Zoo Magazine gives advice to a ’23, not-bad-looking bloke’, who can’t get over a lost love. What’s [...]
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