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Dragon*Con 2010 And Podblack / Token Skeptic / Skeptic Zone!

by podblack on August 21, 2010

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 by [...]

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Female Representation At Paranormal Research Conferences

by podblack on May 19, 2010

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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TAM Australia Announcement – Leslie Cannold Raises The Ratio Question (Yes, That Again)

by podblack on March 29, 2010

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 to [...]

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Podblack Finds For 23rd March 2010

by podblack on March 23, 2010

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 don’t [...]

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Does It Mean A Thing If It ‘Ain’t Got Pink Bling? Gender Differences, Toys And The Psychology Of Color

by podblack on February 13, 2010

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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