Phil Plait

Little Kitten – Bad Universe: Making A Comet

by podblack on August 31, 2010

Or was it ‘comment’? Anyway, this clearly shows how Sydney features in the show that just broadcast in the US:

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A little while back I read the following by Chris Mooney, a post about what he considered to be a good example of science communication. My friend Michael McRae responded with his own post – Encouraging Scientists To Speak For Science. I’m intrigued by these kinds of discussions, as over the past year I have [...]

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I won’t write on this again, but essentially, yesterday I was so unwell that even I didn’t want to be around myself – so, the following items have done a pretty good job of cheering me up! Hello to the world of the living, this revolting zombie-death-like cold can’t last for much longer, I hope! [...]

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Bad Universe – Sneak Peek!

by podblack on July 23, 2010

“Coming soon, it’s all NEW on Discovery! Take a sneak peek at Bad Universe, a new series starring Phil Plait, an astronomer on a mission to debunk all the the junk myths about the universe.”

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Bad Astronomer On LA Ink

by podblack on March 1, 2010

Click to head to the LA Ink site!

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Little Kitten – We Love The Internet

by podblack on February 8, 2010

From Boing Boing: (List of who delivers each line is available at http://www.olganunes.com/xkcd) The incomparable Olga Nunes has released the latest and greatest iteration of the net’s appreciation for Discovery Channel’s “Boom-De-Yadda” commercial, reennacting the XKCD version with “Neil Gaiman, Wil Wheaton, Cory Doctorow, Lawrence Lessig, Bruce Schneier, Jason Kottke, Google Zurich, Hank Green, MC [...]

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Captain Disillusion – TAM7 + Brown Lotto Debunk

by podblack on January 31, 2010

Captain Disillusion’s journey continues when he finds himself in Las Vegas. Or what’s left of it. Then he and Mr. Flare take up “riffing”. The rest of the videos follow:

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Liveblogging At Are We Alone?

by podblack on September 6, 2009

Starts at 10am – not really a full room, but I can see Joe Nickell in the audience. I’m over on the side, so I can use my camera. Do check out the entry by Barbara about a panel we attended on the first day. Plait starts by talking about how the ‘upping of the odds’ [...]

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