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Choice Radio: A Skeptic’s View

by podblack on December 9, 2009

CHOICE Radio: A Skeptic’s view “As the leading consumer advocacy group in Australia, CHOICE campaigns to protect and assist consumers through changes to laws and industry practices.” Richard Saunders from The Australian Skeptics gives us his view on ‘New Age’ business, and the Mind, Body, Spirit festival (Download podcast here)!

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Science doesn’t make good comedy? You must be joking . . .

by podblack on March 18, 2009

Tim Minchin on Science and Comedy: A strange thing has happened to stand-up comedy recently: it has started to find science funny… But ubiquity doesn’t equal humour. On the surface, science is either dry, stats-based and academic or vast, monumental and awe-inspiring. How to turn that into jokes? It can be done, says Australian comic [...]

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Buffy The Vampire Slayer – A Religion Like Any Other?

by podblack on August 31, 2008

Now, I don’t have time to blog on this extensively, but you can certainly check out my series of three posts (so far!) on ‘Women and Superstitions‘ where I’ve touched upon these issues before. In fact, go to my Essays pages for quite a bit on social influences. If you’re not familiar with the work [...]

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