Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
Go, read, enjoy! Curiouser and Curiouser at the CSI Website. Especially the picture of winner Brian Dunning with his Parsec Award! Since 2008 I’ve volunteered to work behind the scenes at the Skeptic Track (or as it’s more fondly known as, ‘SkepTrack’), after being told by Skepticality podcast’s Derek Colanduno that it was a ‘don’t [...]
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This was the third year that I worked at the ‘SkepTrack’ at Dragon*Con – lectures / panels I presented included: Skeptically Speaking: Skeptically Speaking, the talk radio show that asks you to call in and question everything, will be airing live from the SkepTrack stage. This is now online as Episode #76, The Women of [...]
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It’s taken a while, but I have finally printed out a handful of pages and figured out exactly where I am and where the members of the Skeptic Zone podcast will be at Dragon*Con… which is happening at the end of this month. Sodding hell. It’s not very far away! First — drum roll… appearances [...]
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I won’t write on this again, but essentially, yesterday I was so unwell that even I didn’t want to be around myself – so, the following items have done a pretty good job of cheering me up! Hello to the world of the living, this revolting zombie-death-like cold can’t last for much longer, I hope! [...]
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Firstly – tune in for Skeptically Speaking tomorrow! Philosophy professor and author Dr. Massimo Pigliucci joins us to discuss his new book “Nonsense On Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk.” We’ll discuss why people embrace pseudoscientific beliefs, and how it affects our culture. Closer to home: Australian scientists find Timor Sea meteorite crater Australian [...]
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I have so much to do… so little time! But in the meantime, I’ll be attending: 2010 Annual Conference for “Philosophy in the Classroom” – 5-7 July, 2010 at the University of New South Wales. I plan to be one or two days either side of these dates, so I don’t know if there’s an [...]
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Yes, I’m sure you’ve probably seen it before — but there’s a few podcast items I want to send to you! Baba Brinkman, who you can hear on an earlier episode of the Skeptically Speaking radio show! See you all in the chatroom and the Virtually Drinking Skeptically room tomorrow. Oh, and Token Skeptic episode [...]
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