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I’m in Sydney! Going to head out soon, I appear to have missed several events already (shame on my podcast members for not telling me what’s going on!) But I forgot to mention before I left home – yes, I finally got these following episodes online! Question. Explore. Discover. Token Skeptic Forty – On The [...]

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#TAMOz Spoon Bending – Possibly Record Breaking?

by podblack on November 9, 2010

So, this has just been announced on the Meetup site for TAM Australia: “Dr Karl to smash Guinness World Record in Sydney in November. Australia’s best loved scientist Dr Karl Kruzselnicki will make history on Friday 26 November, when he challenges magician David Copperfield’s record for the world’s largest magic lesson by teaching nearly 300 [...]

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My second day of Dragon*Con 2010! Includes the setting up of the Skeptic Track after Friday night, the first ‘coffee morning’ with James Randi, The Parsec Awards, Benjamin Radford’s Paranormal Workshop and the Parenting Beyond Belief podcast.

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I won’t write on this again, but essentially, yesterday I was so unwell that even I didn’t want to be around myself – so, the following items have done a pretty good job of cheering me up! Hello to the world of the living, this revolting zombie-death-like cold can’t last for much longer, I hope! [...]

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The Bad Astronomer’s Speech At TAM8

by podblack on July 17, 2010

This is with very big thanks to Espilon Clue, who features the majority of the speech. There are some arguments he makes at the end, and Dr Phil Plait responds in the comments – I hope Dr Plait includes in the promised ‘blog-follow-up’ he has planned, the post by Tribal Scientist. You can see his [...]

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Women And Skepticism – The Aftermath

by podblack on July 3, 2010

The following probably isn’t news at all for many of you – essentially, Pharyngula (PZ Myers) in his post The Woman Problem reflected upon another post Where are all the female skeptics at? by SkeptiFem. This led to PZ urging comments with links to sites – there were even a few very pertinent comments that [...]

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Last night I decided to have no. more. promoting. of. other. people’s. projects. and. things – until I get the rest of my work done! I have too many of my own projects to finish! So – *ahem* – here’s some… promoting of things. Sorry. But they are all great causes and ideas, by some [...]

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I’m really, really pleased to see that people have been checking out the post I wrote about university students needing support to get to TAM8 – and that the link to donate is being used! Thanks so much, it’s great to see that people are willing to support, even with a few dollars, to this [...]

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