Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
I’ve been attempting to find the correct name for this for some time! As someone who attended classes in Australian Sign Language and learned a little of the history of sign and how there are issues with lip-reading, this is well worth viewing and reflecting upon. Wikipedia: The McGurk effect is sometimes called the McGurk-MacDonald [...]
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Thanks to MsInformation and Eric for these finds – Apparently ‘millimeters matter’! LYRICS Intro: We hear every damn day about our fragile country. Every damn day about the brink of catastrophe, and how it’s a shame that we can’t work together. The truth is we do. We work together to get things done
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The following is fictional and bears no relation to actual events. But not the bits which have me *headdesking* in recollection. If there is any distinguishing factor that unites lower-school high-school Philosophy teachers, it is the Philosophical problem of The Human Centipede. A problem that we really could do quite well without. No, I am [...]
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This is great timing considering all the skeptical-action going on in the UK at the moment! 10:23 Campaign in 2011 – An Interview with Andy Wilson of www.1023.org.uk – at Curiouser and Curiouser! This was one of two interviews I conducted during my short (well, it felt short, I was attempting to do too many [...]
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Just breaking my silence for this short piece of important news — I’ve been following this case on and off during its duration — if you’ve missed the main details, there’s been a few resources that are worth reading. Thanks to Leslie Cannold for this find of a basic summary via YouTube: Dr Cannold’s Twitter [...]
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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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You’re going to have to excuse me for taking so long to write this blog-post about what I did on Saturday night – Academic Database Journal Search isn’t being very helpful at the moment: Search terms – ‘moon’ and ‘libido’ and ‘human’ = NO RECORDS IN SET. On Saturday night I attended Perth Scitech’s “Very Sexy [...]
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Yesterday I got an alert from one of my many Facebook contacts, about a documentary that has just been released in the US and is yet to arrive in Australia: Waiting for Superman. As he follows a handful of promising kids through a system that inhibits, rather than encourages, academic growth, Guggenheim undertakes an exhaustive [...]
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