Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
Yes, it’s been an incredibly busy week and a half — hence mostly links rather than actual bloggy-blog posts. :/ This weekend? I’m off to a Philosophy Camp. About sixty or more students in total. It better not be as scary as this: Highly unlikely that I’ll be able to blog / tweet / email [...]
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PZ Myers is freaking out a tad: “Everything seems to be toxic or dangerous in Australia. Newly discovered off the South Australian coast: carnivorous sea squirts. These creatures aren’t content with living on bacteria or debris — they function like a Venus fly trap, with a funnel shaped oral region on the end of a [...]
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Well, due to my travels and all, it’s been tough to keep up with blog carnivals in terms of contributing. But I will certainly encourage people take a look at the most recent ‘Legacy’, hosted at The Other 95% (and hope that they forgive my pun in the title!)! Some furry, crawly, frondy favourites include: [...]
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Recently I linked in my miniblog to a recent Nature study on learning from magic tricks about the brain. Included with the paper are videos from a conference – magicians like Teller from Penn & Teller, James Randi and the Great Tomsoni. Here is a terrific demonstration of a scientist (and a New York Times [...]
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Quiet Saturday at home, with all of my paperwork on the table. I’ve got a new, exciting prospect on the horizon that I’ll tell you about later! In general, I’m tying together some research on international measures of superstition. Some of it will be of use when looking at superstition and business. Got some items [...]
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24 April 2008 | Listen | Beetles that contribute to global warming, the solution to a cosmic mystery, conjurer and sceptic James Randi, and why space exploration deserves government funding. Charlotte Stoddart: You started off life as a magician, so how did you become more interested in the paranormal and pseudoscience and investigating these areas. [...]
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