by podblack on May 19, 2010
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 [...]
by podblack on December 8, 2009
On the heels of my mentioning my own pro-questioning and inclusive attitude towards religious people being skeptics on the Skeptically Speaking radio show this week, I read in the NY Skeptics blog about how people are indeed speaking how the ‘atheist = skeptic’ attitude really does need to be questioned. Well done to the NY [...]
by podblack on September 28, 2009
I enjoy chatting with the multi-talented and insightful Reed Esau on a number of topics and it was a thrill to see him again at Dragon*Con this year (I now have two, TWO shirts with SkeptiCamp on them! I is happy Australian!). Today on Twitter, he raised a concern about a quote which was being [...]
by podblack on February 25, 2009
Go on, head on over! Start one up! http://skepticamp.org/ This site features all the upcoming events, an archive, all the details you’ll need to start, host, coordinate and organise your very own – and the support network to make it successful! By the way – SkeptiCamp Colorado 2009 is on Saturday, May 9th – so [...]
by podblack on November 19, 2008
… you know how it is. You turn your back on your blog for one second and suddenly your Wheels and Dollbaby Ava Gardner dress is hanging from a Barrack Street Jetty lightpost; there’s a classic VW Bug filled with traffic cones; one stiletto was last seen on the top of a taxi heading to [...]
by podblack on August 30, 2008
Right now, I’m typing whilst sitting on the floor of the conference room for the Skeptic Track. Although the program says that Alison Smith should be presenting, it’s actually Ben Radford, talking about ‘Medium’ and the NBC website providing false information about the biography of Allison DuBois, which they later took down off their pages [...]
by podblack on August 30, 2008
The day started when I found Saunders, bleary-eyed and working on his iPhone at 7.30 in the morning in the little foyer area on floor five of the Hilton. After he stayed out late last night, he tried sleeping on the floor of our hotel room, which explained the little pyramid of pillows by the [...]
by podblack on June 2, 2008
Just got an email from Reed – guess what’s launched? More SkeptiCamp! If you haven’t heard of it before, then check out the TANK Vodcast interview from earlier this year: Then get into this Wiki! I may have mentioned that I’d produce a fully ‘Wikified’ version of my ‘Nine Steps’ article that can be edited [...]
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