Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
New Skeptic Zone podcast out! I’ve interviewed Dr Petra Boynton on sexuality, skepticism and myths! She’s a lecturer who has one of the most practical, succinct and informative feeds that you can get under 140 characters with her account @drpetra. It was there that I first learned about ‘Clitoraid’ and it is well-worth your time [...]
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Just on the heels of the most recent Token Skeptic podcast (where my opening question was : The media’s adoption of the word ’skeptic’ in conjunction with ‘climate change skeptics’ seems to be widespread and perhaps the public perception of the word will always link the two together. Is it possible this could change?) Adam [...]
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On the chosen theme for Scientiae Carnival for October. Last Friday I watched my former students (from my form class, a kind of quasi-pastoral care program involving being with a group of students since Year 8 ) graduate from their final year of high-school. Out of the fourteen, there were saw thirteen graduands from that [...]
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New articles out – that mention a range of states! ‘Just think: it’s important’ in the Sydney Morning Herald: …A former physics teacher, Mr. Ellerton introduced the philosophy and critical thinking program to Calamvale after joining a network of Queensland teachers which promotes and spreads the teaching of philosophy in high schools throughout the state. [...]
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Now, I don’t have time to blog on this extensively, but you can certainly check out my series of three posts (so far!) on ‘Women and Superstitions‘ where I’ve touched upon these issues before. In fact, go to my Essays pages for quite a bit on social influences. If you’re not familiar with the work [...]
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I was going to just pop this into the miniblog… but it got me thinking beyond the subject it talks about: teaching evolution in modern times and changes made to the education system in Florida to cater for this. Besides, I have about three hours to kill whilst sitting here at Gatwick airport, and I [...]
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I hope you’ve read the book ‘Trick or Treatment’ – now you can check out their challenge! First, a great article in the SMH on ‘The Case against Cure Alls’: It is a very timely tome, with the Federal Government considering a toughening of requirements for Australia’s $2 billion complementary medicine industry to disclose the [...]
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Let’s just do a comparison. What would you rather have? 4 fish steaks 1/4 cup lime juice 2 tablespoon vegetable oil 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard 2 teaspoons fresh ginger root — grated 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper black pepper Steaks should be around 300 grams in weight and about 2cm thick (8-10 ounces and about an [...]
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