Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
A little delayed – but the notes I took from this session: The presenters were: Moderator Tim Mendham, Dr Rob Morrison, Dr Paul Willis and Steve Cannane. Morrison: There’s only a limited number of specialist scientist journalists employed – and like the rest of the population, there are people who aren’t particularly seeing accurately what [...]
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You have no idea how much I hate this guy. He’s the artist who is responsible for my cat logo on my blog. His art and writing has appeared in science publications internationally and he currently works for CSIRO. A former member of the Shell Questacon Science Circus and graduate of the ANU Science Communication [...]
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WAAHHH It’s on The Guardian website as a guest post! Absolutely thrilled to see the company I’m keeping – Leslie Cannold also has an article online! ‘Abortion is about balancing rights – religious medics don’t get the final say’. Do check it out! Many, many thanks to Martin Robbins and to Warren Bonett who made [...]
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Oh. Wow. Bloody hell wow. From Courthouse News Service: GLENDALE, Calif. (CN) – Evolutionary biologist and best-selling author Richard Dawkins claims an employee of his Foundation for Reason and Science embezzled $375,000 from the online store he ran for Dawkins’ charity, by claiming it made only $30,000 in 3 years. …Because legal requirements imposed by [...]
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Just breaking my silence for this short piece of important news — I’ve been following this case on and off during its duration — if you’ve missed the main details, there’s been a few resources that are worth reading. Thanks to Leslie Cannold for this find of a basic summary via YouTube: Dr Cannold’s Twitter [...]
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There were a variety of news items about this yesterday — Science is vital — found at www.scienceisvital.org.uk – here’s a link to Carmen D’Cruz‘s take on it all — Science Is Vital: Yesterday I attended the Science Is Vital rally outside the Treasury building in Westminster… We were protesting to try and prevent the disastrous [...]
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Yesterday I got an alert from one of my many Facebook contacts, about a documentary that has just been released in the US and is yet to arrive in Australia: Waiting for Superman. As he follows a handful of promising kids through a system that inhibits, rather than encourages, academic growth, Guggenheim undertakes an exhaustive [...]
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Dear Bloggy-readers, I’m going to only write for the blog for the foreseeable future on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays – simply because I’m out of time! Or at least, it feels as if there’s more pressing needs that I really should be devoting my energies to, and the blog is just going to have to [...]
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