Skepticality

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.

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Little Kitten – Head Rush with Kari Byron

by podblack on August 11, 2010

Thanks to Derek Colanduno for the find! Go check out the new Skepticality episode!

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Women And Skepticism – The Aftermath

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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!

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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 [...]

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Ada Lovelace Day #ald10 – Women In Podcasting

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 [...]

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