by podblack on June 13, 2010
I’m really, really pleased to see that people have been checking out the post I wrote about university students needing support to get to TAM8 – and that the link to donate is being used! Thanks so much, it’s great to see that people are willing to support, even with a few dollars, to this [...]
by podblack on June 11, 2010
If you want to help out? Try these college students. They are students who have been working on skeptic and psychology-related projects and have already contributed to a site that indicates their relevant application to future research. During my time as a skeptic – I’ve donated time. A lot of time. I’ve donated my backstage-help, [...]
by podblack on May 18, 2010
Before I attended the Global Atheist Convention – I had the chance to meet the man himself at a school near me! Token Skeptic #21 – On Truth, Realism And Non-Realism (Lecture By A.C Grayling) Token Skeptic #22 – On Rights (Lecture By A.C Grayling) So. What do you do when you have a large [...]
by podblack on May 14, 2010
I have so much to do… so little time! But in the meantime, I’ll be attending: 2010 Annual Conference for “Philosophy in the Classroom” – 5-7 July, 2010 at the University of New South Wales. I plan to be one or two days either side of these dates, so I don’t know if there’s an [...]
by podblack on May 9, 2010
This one is for Digital Cuttlefish! They’ve just had another offer to have their work put to music, and I was reminded of this piece. Do yourself a favour and check out the verse on that site too! “A VideoSong on the various types of cognitive bias for my AP Psychology students. I promised my [...]
by podblack on February 15, 2010
“Don’t leave the duck there. It’s totally irresponsible. Put it on the swing, it’ll have much more fun.” Sleep Talkin’ Man. This blog-post is inspired by the fact that I just fell solidly out of bed and onto a book. Nice hardcover edition of Phillip Pullman’s ‘His Dark Materials’ omnibus. Seriously ouch-y. I woke up [...]
by podblack on February 13, 2010
Before I begin – thanks to everyone who has been waiting for the Token Skeptic podcast to come out – I strongly recommend you check out the Princess Scientist Podcast while you’re waiting over the next twelve hours or so for me to post up the ‘missing episodes’! As Mur Lafferty, podcaster, author and continual [...]
by podblack on February 3, 2010
For the past few years (dotted in amongst my posts of YouTube videos and my complaints about doing the ‘Wireless Waltz’ in conference rooms waving my laptop around, trying to get AirPort to pick up a signal)… I have blogged about various research interests and referenced a few papers. It’s good fun to keep track [...]