Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
Across the weekend of the 5th-6th February, 2011, activism to raise awareness of homeopathy and its ramifications will happen on a global scale. Here’s where Australia will play a part – Ten23 In Australia – the official page at the Token Skeptic website. Just head to http://tokenskeptic.org/ten23 Contact me via tokenskeptic @gmail if your Australian [...]
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This is a serious back-log that you’ll have to download if you’re not keeping up with the Token Skeptic podcast! Especially now I’ve got the hang of uploading via Dropbox – and yes, that is a tremendous sigh of relief you can hear, because I have so much to broadcast and I’m dying to have [...]
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Two interesting coincidences today – I got the latest mailout by Science WA about some new events and news, which included the following adults-only event at SciTech (Saturday, 9th October): Scitech is gearing up for a very sexy After Dark. Get ready as we spice up the next installment of After Dark with the science [...]
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This was the third year that I worked at the ‘SkepTrack’ at Dragon*Con – lectures / panels I presented included: Skeptically Speaking: Skeptically Speaking, the talk radio show that asks you to call in and question everything, will be airing live from the SkepTrack stage. This is now online as Episode #76, The Women of [...]
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Once again I am leaving the USA behind and crossing the International Date Line to arrive back in Australia. Usually I don’t leave on any particularly important day, but there will be an exception this year. This imaginary line exists in order to have a fixed boundary on the globe where the calendar date resets [...]
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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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Two Years Of The Skeptic Zone
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I’ve had continuing health problems, a week ahead of me full of planning and coordinating lessons for the fortnight that I’m away… and Dragon*Con itself to plan for, along with all the travel! :/ So, it’s only fair to warn you that I’m going to try to blog while on the road rather than over the [...]
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