Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
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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Thanks to IDoubtIt — Live at The Amazing Meeting (TAM8) 8 in Las Vegas, Richard Saunders, Bruce Hood, Brian Dunning and Rick don the mustaches for a rousing rendition of the Star Trek theme.
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From Gather.com: It was five and a half years ago that Roy Horn was attacked by his feline co-star Montecore, a white tiger in the Siegfried & Roy Las Vegas show. Tonight on ABC’s 20/20 the entertainers are interviewed by Elizabeth Vargas about their show and the incident. Just this week, Siegfried and Roy reunited [...]
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Okay, right, it’s the weekend — and I’m blogging. Bleah. Never mind, I’ve got a lot of work on the horizon and I’ll zip off and complete it instead of writing much more on all of this. But I have to pop up some links and tidy up my blogroll first! First — an mp3 [...]
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[ If you don’t know the context -- it’s here and here. “Every bit of my bullshit detector goes off like crazy over global warming and every fucking thing that Al Gore says; he seems to me to be a lying sack of shit who’s wrong about everything. He seems that way to me, but [...]
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The site is up and over here! — Sadly, no longer active, oh well. Now, I think my favorite spoon-bending session will always be the regulars done by the Sydney Skeptics In The Pub (led by Richard Saunders), but it’s still kind of cool to see a record set: and if you missed out Teller’s [...]
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Now, a friend of mine, Liz, is featured briefly in the first of a vodcast series on the recent TAM6, by Soccergirl Incorporated! Looking gorgeous as always, but made me scream out loud with her ‘look at me, I’m a circus freak!’ arm trick! She sounds more suave than freaky on her own gaming podcast, [...]
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Penn Responds To Begley’s Newsweek Article On TAM6
by podblack on July 4, 2008
Remember Sharon Begley on TAM6, particularly Penn’s comments? Penn has responded in the LA Times: Every year, in Vegas, the James Randi Educational Foundation gathers together for a conference as many like-thinking participants as you can get from people who question whenever people think alike. There are smart, famous and groovy speakers such as Richard [...]
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