global warming

You’re going to have to excuse me for taking so long to write this blog-post about what I did on Saturday night – Academic Database Journal Search isn’t being very helpful at the moment: Search terms – ‘moon’ and ‘libido’ and ‘human’ = NO RECORDS IN SET. On Saturday night I attended Perth Scitech’s “Very Sexy [...]

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First, just a quick reminder to everyone out there regarding Tim Minchin’s White Wine in the Sun and how it’s now going to help an autism charity. Regarding skeptics and climate change, I am immediately reminded of the Australian Skeptics National conference in Adelaide, 2008, which featured a ‘climate debate’ between professors Ian Plimer and [...]

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Want To Know What Penn REALLY Said?

by podblack on July 8, 2008

[ If you don’t know the context -- it’s here and here. “Every bit of my bullshit detector goes off like crazy over global warming and every fucking thing that Al Gore says; he seems to me to be a lying sack of shit who’s wrong about everything. He seems that way to me, but [...]

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Remember Sharon Begley on TAM6, particularly Penn’s comments? Penn has responded in the LA Times: Every year, in Vegas, the James Randi Educational Foundation gathers together for a conference as many like-thinking participants as you can get from people who question whenever people think alike. There are smart, famous and groovy speakers such as Richard [...]

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Sharon Begley On TAM6 And Penn & Teller

by podblack on June 29, 2008

So, whilst all the rah-rah rubbish about the ‘women to men’ ratio of The Amazing Meeting turned out to be a complete and utter non-issue (hey, just like I’ve said all along! What a surprise!!) – one of the female presenters did have something to say about the show. In particular, what she noticed about [...]

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