Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
Maybe you missed it and I mentioned your site (sorry that I don’t have the links up… when I’ve got the time, I’ll correct that – EDIT – links now included)! Welcome ladies and gentlemen to the Saturday of the convention – with an early morning start. I’m certain that the coffee and the eye-searing [...]
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I’m heading out tonight for a Science Week event with some friends (and really very glad about the opportunity – after being on the road for qualitative research in the north of the state, I thought that I’d miss everything that was going on) – here’s a teaser before I write a review: National Science [...]
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I’m still on the road at the moment — although ‘on the road’ is an odd summation for a rather nice hotel on the beachfront in Geraldton. If this is winter, I’m wondering why I have the airconditioner on and just came back from a sunset walk complete with cuttlefish bones on the shore. I [...]
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Jeff Medkeff was diagnosed with liver cancer less than two months ago. He was 39 years old and his blog is well-known. He was scheduled to be on many panels at Dragon*Con on the Space track, discussing his experiences in Astronomy. As a member of the blogging community, my sympathies to his family and friends. “I have [...]
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In a hotel internet kiosk, after a fantastic night – evidence! This was taken with my phone, so not the best quality! But overall, an image really can’t do the event justice. Mike had the audience enthralled with his presentation and I hope that the person filming for BrisScience gets copies out! What particularly struck me was [...]
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Okay, right, it’s the weekend — and I’m blogging. Bleah. Never mind, I’ve got a lot of work on the horizon and I’ll zip off and complete it instead of writing much more on all of this. But I have to pop up some links and tidy up my blogroll first! First — an mp3 [...]
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So, whilst all the rah-rah rubbish about the ‘women to men’ ratio of The Amazing Meeting turned out to be a complete and utter non-issue (hey, just like I’ve said all along! What a surprise!!) – one of the female presenters did have something to say about the show. In particular, what she noticed about [...]
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Not Totally Rad Blogspot has the summation of how TAM6 is going so far – but here is the bit we’ve all been waiting for: Richard Saunders gave a short summary of skeptical matters in Australia. The best part of his session was an audience-participation experiment of dousing. This elegant experiment was designed to help teach [...]
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