Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
This is a short film, thanks to Daniel Keogh, called “The Placebo Effect” (vodcast mp4 link) He played it during his touring show ‘The Stupid Species: Why Everyone (Except You) Is An Idiot’ for Science Week. You can follow him on Twitter as ‘Professor Funk’ and hear him being interviewed on Token Skeptic #30 – [...]
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The Stupid Species: Why Everyone (Except You) Is An Idiot – by Daniel Keogh The Stupid Species is an over -18s science show involving hilarious experiments, films, animations and stories that show the science and psychology of why everyone is capable of incredible stupidity. “We all like to think we’re special. In fact on average [...]
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Gah, I hate it when things are terrifically busy and I’m focusing more on controlling sinus pain, workloads and impending study and writing deadlines – but do not let those kinds of grumbles deter you! There’s plenty happening in Perth and nationwide via the Australia’s National Science Week site for 2010! Today I’ll be checking [...]
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Really proud to see Bec Crew of the Save Your Breath for Running Ponies! blog has won the Best Australian Science Blog prize for Australia’s Science Week!! (Not just because I’d said that I’d dye my hair if I won, and now I don’t have to! Wahoo!) Ms Crew, who is based in Sydney and [...]
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Today I headed into Curtin University, after getting rather lost in the maze of building-works that is happening around the science and technology sector of the campus (getting lost – not so bad. Discovering that a former student of mine is attending same workshop and gleefully shouts the teacher-nickname I was known for four years [...]
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Just a quick announcement that I’m going to be: 1) Upgrading the blog-site and 2) Working on studies for the rest of the week, so expect only a few updates. School starts for me next week too! Which makes it a little odd that I then go – Vote For Me for the Big Blog [...]
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Wahoo! And there’s plenty of blogs that I’m a fan of (and indeed know / met / work with!) It’s very thrilling to know I’m in such good company! Here is the link to place your vote. Please note you can only vote once, so make sure you check out all the finalists! We are pleased [...]
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Seems there’s a lot of categories (and yes, I have mentioned on Twitter already – ‘A Tweetstream is considered equivalent to a blog or podcast??‘) – but do send in suggestions! Here’s the Big Blog Theory competition, thanks to Australia’s Science Week! Discovering Australia’s Best Science Blogger Who’s your favorite science blogger? Show your support [...]
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