Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
New Token Skeptic podcast out! It should keep you amused while I get back to finishing everything else that needs to be done during the last week of the school holidays. Pass it onto anyone interested in finding out just how difficult it is to get new programs started in schools and how the media [...]
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I know, I REALLY have to get back to some serious science blogging… but while you’re waiting – here’s episode twenty-six of the Token Skeptic Podcast! This week I’m interviewing Joey Haban of the blog Newly Nerfed. Newly Nerfed is a blog about chronic illness and disability, science and skepticism, and geekery of all kinds, [...]
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Just one of those things that I like doing – helping out other’s podcasts! The 365 Days of Astronomy podcast – the official podcast of the International Year of Astronomy 2009 – is continuing into 2010. The format remains the same with each episode contributed by different people from around the world. Although many people [...]
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Let’s see how many ideas there are for you! Firstly – songs! Yes, Tim Minchin‘s song ‘White Wine in the Sun‘ is available as a single on iTunes from … gah, appears it’s available from 13th December according to ‘people in the know’. Darn Tim Minchin’s over-eager Twitter! If you don’t know the lyrics for [...]
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I have sent FIVE copies of this album around the world to different people. Thank hades you can now download it for yourself – Ready For This (Live – Bonus Track Version) on iTunes)! Thanks to MsInformation for the tip-off! The YouTube video for Tim Minchin’s ‘Storm (with lyrics)’ has been one of the big [...]
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Was downloading the most recent Sessions with Slau (yes, you should download it, learn things, like ‘a ribbon microphone doesn’t actually look like a ribbon, it’s to do with a thin metallic ribbon placed between the poles of a magnet to generate voltages by electromagnetic induction… oh shut up, anyone could make that mistake…) – [...]
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Interview with Alom Shaha for Skeptic Zone podcast, episode 22: Download it here or go to iTunes! Alom Shaha is a physics teacher at an inner city comprehensive school where science, as in all UK schools, is compulsory for all students up to the age of 16. He says that he wears his passion for [...]
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There were two great round-ups of blog carnivals today! The first is just in time for the latest Skeptic Zone podcast to be heading your way — because the theme was about skepticism in another country, specifically Africa! Skeptics’ Circle 101: The African Edition, is up on Ionian Enchantment. Some great entries I enjoyed included [...]
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