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I’d like to add – I lost ALL of my Saturday night photos and videos from the GAC. :/ I had them on a little flash drive, which probably got dropped in the convention centre. You’d know it if you found it – it has a copy of my speech on it! If [...]

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Lucky Thirteen Token Skeptic Now Out!

by podblack on March 20, 2010

Completely unrelated – but congratulations to Simon Singh and family, with the arrival of little Hari! After the tragic news about quitting his Guardian column (’This is Goodbye’), this is great news. All the very best!
Just throwing in a quick link: Episode Thirteen – On Skepticism And Comedy (Bonus Chaser Interview) – at the Token [...]

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I had this book with me when I traveled to Melbourne and pretty much couldn’t put it down for the first two days. Now on the bookshelves in Australia, do check it out! Rebecca Skloot on the Colbert Report.

The Colbert Report
Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c

Rebecca Skloot

www.colbertnation.com

Colbert Report Full Episodes
Political Humor
Health Care reform

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Podblack Finds for 19th March 2010

by podblack on March 19, 2010

A news story that was printed in the New Humanist back in May/June 2008 has been revived in The Times today. It’s not exactly a ‘catching up’, but I’d say it’s a revisit to how rationalists in India continue to challenge superstitious and claims by gurus.
Sanal Edamaruku wrote about Death on air – the night [...]

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An article on the Global Atheist Convention is now winging its way to feature on the Curiouser and Curiouser column on the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry Website!
Big thanks to Mike Rotkowitz for this shot! Right, back to work – Token Skeptic episode out tonight (despite my awful-sounding voice, horrid cold) called ‘On Women and Paranormal [...]

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Yes, that’s me standing next to him – and yes, I knew it was misquoted. Good to have visual evidence. Full post at Young Australian Skeptics:
Reporting on the 2010 Global Atheist Convention, Barney Zwartz & Jacqueline Maley, in their respective articles “Dawkins delivers the sermon they came to hear” (The Age, 15/3/10) and “Dawkins derides [...]

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