Junior Skeptic

Dr Richard Wiseman Releases Brian!

by podblack on March 27, 2008

So, Dr Richard Wiseman has done it – as reported in The Scotsman. Released the tragic, tragic revelation – that if you’re a Brian, you’re on the list. Now, in what is believed to be the biggest experiment of its kind undertaken, the television scientist Professor Richard Wiseman has unveiled the names most associated with [...]

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Welcome to my sequence of posts for this week! I’m going to be foregrounding some people via online interviews, on a range of topics and issues. My first is Australian Michael McRae, who is currently living and working in Australia’s capital city, Canberra. You’ve had a rich and interesting career, having started as a pathologist [...]

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Skeptical Books for Children – Part Two

by podblack on February 5, 2008

Following on from Skeptical Books for Children – Part One My comment that “we have to stop trying so hard to fill a niche and fill a general need first” is what I’ll expand upon – in particular for the pre-primary and primary year students. I’d like to first acknowledge the problems that some parents [...]

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Scrabulous! Repent! Repent!

by podblack on January 16, 2008

Repent! Especially if you can do it on some of those premium squares… OFFICE workers could be left searching for a new way to waste time after one of the world’s most popular online games was threatened with legal action. Facebook is being pressured to shut down the popular Scrabulous application by the makers of [...]

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