Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
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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The quick and dirty world of women’s magazines from Christine Ottery from Women’s Mag! A great site, lots of discussion and resources there. I met Petra Boynton to discuss women’s magazines, and in particular sex surveys, dodgy experts, and the mixed and confusing messages that women’s mags send out about women’s sexuality. To put pressure [...]
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Hat-tip to Dr Petra Boynton: For the first time ever, a commercial for unplanned pregnancy and abortion advisory services will be aired on British television. The commercial, to be screened first on Channel 4 at 10.10pm on 24th May 2010, is part of a new campaign by Marie Stopes International, the UKs leading provider of [...]
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A response to “female representation. Where the hell is it?” by The Rather Friendly Skeptic. “…why is it only a few women are ever seen speaking at conferences and why do we never see a predominantly female line up at such conferences?” They linked to my site! As Desiree Schell mentioned in the comments of that [...]
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Don’t forget to check out the latest Token Skeptic Episode: On How We Only Like You Because You’re Good In Blog – Blogging Skeptically. Submission for ‘We Only Like You Because You’re Good in Blog’ Day! …what we will NOT tolerate are veiled threats or references to violence or sex acts such as those above. [...]
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Today a few of my ‘worlds’ collided when a young woman in one of my classes ask me ‘how come I found your blog and how does it get so much traffic?’ It was on the tip of my tongue to say “start a blog, enter in for the ‘We Only Like You Because You’re [...]
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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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Blogging For Girls by Quiet Riot Girl – in response to Margaret Wente of Canada’s Globe and Mail, who wrote ‘Why Are Bloggers Male‘? “She thinks blogging is ‘a guy thing’, like driving a snowmobile up a mountain ‘at 120 miles per hour’ is a guy thing (for James Bond maybe). According to Wente, women [...]
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