Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
Hi to all the Guardian readers / fans of Tim Minchin out there! Yes, there are quite a few Tim Minchin blog-posts with lots of information on this site, since I was one of the first skeptic podcasters to interview him (for the TANK Vodcast, back in 2008). After that, we had a four-part lengthy [...]
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Sheril Kirshenbaum leads a vital blogo-spheric initiative called SILENCE IS THE ENEMY starting today, June 1st, to help a generation of young women half a world away. She says: An International Rescue Committee survey suggests 12 percent of girls aged 17 and under acknowledged having been sexually abused in some way in the previous 18 [...]
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Many, many thanks to Richard Saunders of the Skeptic Zone podcast and the Young Australian Skeptics for the following! Get a pdf here and print it out, pass it on and suggest for podcasts and other blog sites. “With the growing world-wide threat of Swine Flu (or the N5H1 virus) the public is alerted to [...]
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Alert from Stephen Fry leads to the following articles: If you’re on Twitter, would you change your avatar to black to show support for the fight against a “three accusations and you’re offline” law in New Zealand? Sections 92A and C of the amended Copyright Act establish a guilt upon accusation principle that can see [...]
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Thanks to Wired.com: “OMG! Have you heard that huge atom smasher in Europe powers up for the first time tomorrow? Of course you have. You’ve also heard it repeated over and over that the Large Hadron Collider is the biggest, most expensive scientific instrument in history and that it’s going to change our fundamental understanding [...]
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Dean Baird takes some very good photos, by the way. One of the Sunday paper presenters at TAM6 has a brand-new website up - ‘Tools For Skeptics’, “The purpose of the site is to assist the skeptic movement with better software tools“. For free? As an experienced site-creating consultant? Or based on assumptions about the internet [...]
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I’m currently Skype-ing with Richard Saunders, who just sent me a clipping from today’s Sydney Morning Herald! Here’s the first published news item about it! If you’re interested in finding out more the format of the show (and some of the information breaking down what happened…) – have a look at the UK Skeptics site [...]
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BIG thanks to Brainduck for the alert on this one -seems more information for parents and stakeholders in the collapse of Dore Australia is now up on the website here: June 2008 Dore Group (Australasia) Ltd Dore Group 151 – Proxy form.doc June 2008 Dore Group (Australasia) Ltd Dore Group 153 – Notice to creditors.doc [...]
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