Michael McRae

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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I’m going to be podcasting on this matter later, thanks to two very kind people who have responded to my request, and I’ll see if I can transcribe it. But I just want to post a few links in response to PZ Myer’s ‘Should skeptic organizations be atheist organizations?’ which is in regards to Dr [...]

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Yes, I’m sure you’ve probably seen it before — but there’s a few podcast items I want to send to you! Baba Brinkman, who you can hear on an earlier episode of the Skeptically Speaking radio show! See you all in the chatroom and the Virtually Drinking Skeptically room tomorrow. Oh, and Token Skeptic episode [...]

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Episode Nineteen of the Token Skeptic – On Skepticism And Education, an Interview With JREF’s Michael Blanford! This was a really enjoyable one, because it’s been quite some time (…at least since 2006, by my reckoning…) that I’ve been interested in just how the James Randi Educational Foundation works on the ‘Education’ part in their [...]

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Token Skeptic #18 – On The Placebo Protest (Science Communication Part Three) This particular episode is another conversation with Science Communicator and the ‘Science By Email’ editor, Michael McRae, about the #boobquake day, held on the 26th April. You can hear him on previous episodes, #9 and #10, also about science communication and skepticism. I [...]

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Podblack Finds For 12th April 2010

by podblack on April 12, 2010

A quick-round up for the start of the week – then it’s back to work for me! Firstly – Jim Wallace is not happy about ethics classes being offered to students from NSW as an alternative to scripture… Opinion, The Age: You can’t teach ethics without referring to Christianity: With our nation having just played [...]

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Skeptical Books For Children – Part Five

by podblack on October 26, 2009

Skeptical Books for Children – Part One and Skeptical Books for Children – Part Two and Skeptical Books for Children – Part Three and Skeptical Books for Children – Part Four – An ongoing series for parents, educators, authors and those enthusiastic about outreach to the younger years. ***** According to renowned physicist Stephen Hawking, [...]

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I’ll be very busy and tied up with work and personal business for quite a while – so I will let you enjoy the following gem in celebration of Darwin, beyond Darwin Day! Michael McRae, CSIRO’s Science by Email coordinator, was interviewed earlier on this blog about Science Communication and Education. I had the opportunity [...]

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