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Dr Krissie Wilson On Counterpoint!

by podblack on March 3, 2008

Right – now we’ve got actress-nonsense-who-cares out of the way, let’s get to real news: Dr Krissie Wilson is on Counterpoint, today!
FBI agent Fox Mulder in the TV series The X-Files had a poster on his office wall which read, I Want To Believe. In the 21st century people are prepared to believe in all [...]

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Finally! Hobart Conference Day Two!

by podblack on December 29, 2007

… bet you thought I forgot. No, I was just waiting for my copy of the Australian Skeptics Magazine to reach me, so I can do the goofy pose with me as cover-girl:

… goofy pose over. Back to business.
After the brilliant dinner the night before – which was a lot like this, with Pigasus stealing [...]

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Tank Vodcast 23rd November!!

by podblack on November 25, 2007

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The Australian Skeptics Hobart Conference – Part One

by podblack on November 20, 2007

Right. Before I head out to ANOTHER meeting of skeptics, here’s the run-down for the first day – Saturday 17th November.
Time frame: leave home at 11.30pm, fly across the country – arrive at 8am the next morning. Head straight to the conference with a lot of coffee in me, where the streets are a mixture [...]

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Kylie Sturgess

by podblack on November 19, 2007

Winner of the 2007 Australian Skeptics Prize for Critical Thinking.
http://skeptics.com.au/prizes/2007skepticsprize.pdf

I am currently working as a secondary school English and English as a Second Language teacher in Western Australia. Since 2003 I’ve gained Levels 1 and 2 accreditation in the Federation of Australasian Philosophy in Schools Association’s ‘Philosophy / Teacher Educator’. I have focused on how [...]

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I’ll Be in a Hotel By Now…

by podblack on November 17, 2007

Where am I? I’m in Hobart, Tasmania. It will kind of look like this:

The Australian Skeptics conference is on – with the theme of “The Use and Abuse of Scientific Data in the Environment Debate”. Quite apt that it’s being held in Hobart, considering Tasmania’s history of environmental activism.
I’ll probably be abusing Richard Saunders in [...]

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