Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
Feel free to ask your own questions – head to Podblackblog on Twitter and ‘tweet’ your question! Topics like superstition, belief in the paranormal, pseudoscience and conspiracy theories and gender differences are particularly fun to tackle. The question I got via Sonja on Twitter was – “How true is the comment ‘the days of this [...]
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Feel free to ask your own questions – head to Podblackblog on Twitter and ‘tweet’ your question! Topics like superstition, belief in the paranormal, pseudoscience and conspiracy theories and gender differences are particularly fun to tackle. A question from Naontiotami – visit his blog too! What does supernatural mean? Okay – apparently someone told Naontiotami [...]
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A very useful link! From FindingAda on Twitter: The GetSETWomen database provides the media and other organisations with access to a wide variety of women, at various stages in their science, engineering and technology careers, who have registered their details and can be approached for promotional and work related opportunities. This may include speaking at [...]
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NPR’s Science Friday podcast: Currently only 20 percent of engineering undergraduates are women — and only ten percent of the engineering workforce is female. We’ll talk with Leslie Collins, executive director of the National Engineers Week Foundation, about the group’s ‘Introduce a Girl to Engineering’ event.
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From Neuroanthropology – Throwing like a girl(’s brain): We’ve all read some of the discussions about differences in men’s and women’s brains, but the case of throwing overhand offers a cautionary tale about thinking we’ve found something inherent in being male or female. The danger is that we accept too quickly observed differences without digging a [...]
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