Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
Two interesting coincidences today – I got the latest mailout by Science WA about some new events and news, which included the following adults-only event at SciTech (Saturday, 9th October): Scitech is gearing up for a very sexy After Dark. Get ready as we spice up the next installment of After Dark with the science [...]
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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 [...]
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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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Thanks to ‘bastardsheep’ for this one: TAM (The Amazing Meeting) is coming to Australia this year, the last weekend in November. The first official lineup lineup of speakers has just been officially announced: James Randi, DJ Grothe, SGU, Brian Dunning, George Hrab, Dr Eugenie Scott, Dr Karl Kruszelnicki and MC Dr Paul Willis. #TAMOz appears [...]
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Blogging For Girls by Quiet Riot Girl – in response to Margaret Wente of Canada’s Globe and Mail, who wrote ‘Why Are Bloggers Male‘? “She thinks blogging is ‘a guy thing’, like driving a snowmobile up a mountain ‘at 120 miles per hour’ is a guy thing (for James Bond maybe). According to Wente, women [...]
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Before I begin – thanks to everyone who has been waiting for the Token Skeptic podcast to come out – I strongly recommend you check out the Princess Scientist Podcast while you’re waiting over the next twelve hours or so for me to post up the ‘missing episodes’! As Mur Lafferty, podcaster, author and continual [...]
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Oh — new Token Skeptic podcast episode should be out now — ‘On Women and Paranormal Belief (Part One)’
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Just a short note – I’m scheduled to appear on both the Skeptic and Science Tracks at Dragon*Con – the findings on paranormal, pseudoscience and conspiracy theory beliefs stemming from a study co-created by Dr Martin Bridgstock and myself will be presented by both of us on Sunday, 6th September at 7pm, called “Australian Skeptics [...]
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