Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
So, this has just been announced on the Meetup site for TAM Australia: “Dr Karl to smash Guinness World Record in Sydney in November. Australia’s best loved scientist Dr Karl Kruzselnicki will make history on Friday 26 November, when he challenges magician David Copperfield’s record for the world’s largest magic lesson by teaching nearly 300 [...]
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Just a quick update to say: 1. Insanely busy. I mean, nutty busy. Going to spend today just going through the list of things I have to get done and then get to the things that I actually want to get done and then I might see about doing things like ‘food’ and ‘sleep’ and [...]
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I recently learned that I’m one of the few active-online skeptics (and honestly, I wonder even if I’m that much of a ‘skeptic’ anymore) – who can be named as having done primary research on assessing belief in the paranormal. Big thanks to Swoopy, Derek and Desiree for giving me a lovely shout-out on an [...]
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The following is fictional and bears no relation to actual events. But not the bits which have me *headdesking* in recollection. If there is any distinguishing factor that unites lower-school high-school Philosophy teachers, it is the Philosophical problem of The Human Centipede. A problem that we really could do quite well without. No, I am [...]
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This is great timing considering all the skeptical-action going on in the UK at the moment! 10:23 Campaign in 2011 – An Interview with Andy Wilson of www.1023.org.uk – at Curiouser and Curiouser! This was one of two interviews I conducted during my short (well, it felt short, I was attempting to do too many [...]
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Yesterday I got an alert from one of my many Facebook contacts, about a documentary that has just been released in the US and is yet to arrive in Australia: Waiting for Superman. As he follows a handful of promising kids through a system that inhibits, rather than encourages, academic growth, Guggenheim undertakes an exhaustive [...]
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Dear Bloggy-readers, I’m going to only write for the blog for the foreseeable future on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays – simply because I’m out of time! Or at least, it feels as if there’s more pressing needs that I really should be devoting my energies to, and the blog is just going to have to [...]
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This is a serious back-log that you’ll have to download if you’re not keeping up with the Token Skeptic podcast! Especially now I’ve got the hang of uploading via Dropbox – and yes, that is a tremendous sigh of relief you can hear, because I have so much to broadcast and I’m dying to have [...]
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