by podblack on September 6, 2010
My second day of Dragon*Con 2010! Includes the setting up of the Skeptic Track after Friday night, the first ‘coffee morning’ with James Randi, The Parsec Awards, Benjamin Radford’s Paranormal Workshop and the Parenting Beyond Belief podcast.
by podblack on August 11, 2010
Thanks to Derek Colanduno for the find! Go check out the new Skepticality episode!
by podblack on July 3, 2010
The following probably isn’t news at all for many of you – essentially, Pharyngula (PZ Myers) in his post The Woman Problem reflected upon another post Where are all the female skeptics at? by SkeptiFem. This led to PZ urging comments with links to sites – there were even a few very pertinent comments that [...]
by podblack on May 30, 2010
Token Skeptic #6 – On Trial By Ordeal – Witch-Hunting And Superstition Yes, it includes some audio references to Monty Python’s ‘Holy Grail’ film. No, the majority of the podcast episode is not amusing and in fact deals with the ongoing issues of torture due to the belief that witches and that confession through trials [...]
by podblack on May 4, 2010
Episode Nineteen of the Token Skeptic – On Skepticism And Education, an Interview With JREF’s Michael Blanford! This was a really enjoyable one, because it’s been quite some time (…at least since 2006, by my reckoning…) that I’ve been interested in just how the James Randi Educational Foundation works on the ‘Education’ part in their [...]
by podblack on April 22, 2010
Go check out the entire sequence at Skeptic North! And if you haven’t already, go listen to the Skepticality interview, ‘Skepticism and Manga’ with the artist, Sara E. Mayhew!
by podblack on March 26, 2010
Just one of those things that I like doing – helping out other’s podcasts! The 365 Days of Astronomy podcast – the official podcast of the International Year of Astronomy 2009 – is continuing into 2010. The format remains the same with each episode contributed by different people from around the world. Although many people [...]
by podblack on March 24, 2010
It’s about… some-kind-of-absurd-hour of the night (or is it morning?) where I am now and I’ve been up for about an hour already. This is the time when there are no children squeaking in the yard. No sound of breakfast being made. No party banging on down the street and the television isn’t blaring the [...]