Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
Dean Baird takes some very good photos, by the way. One of the Sunday paper presenters at TAM6 has a brand-new website up - ‘Tools For Skeptics’, “The purpose of the site is to assist the skeptic movement with better software tools“. For free? As an experienced site-creating consultant? Or based on assumptions about the internet [...]
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I hope you’ve enjoyed the latest Skeptic’s Circle, hosted on the Skepbitch site! I particularly enjoyed laughing at Digital Cuttlefish’s brand new book… But! More is indeed wanted (and here’s hoping that some of the keen readers of the awesome “Evolving Thoughts” are such writers!) – as the next edition of Encephalon will be hosted [...]
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I first have some great news – two of my fave Australian skeptics, Dr Karen Stollznow and Dr Martin Bridgstock are in the most recent Skeptical Inquirer! Skeptical Ethics – What Should We Investigate? – Dr Martin Bridgstock Merchandising God: The Pope Tart and Anonymous vs. Scientology – both by Dr Karen Stollznow! As for [...]
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Following on from Skeptical Books for Children – Part One; Part Two and Part Three and a segue into gender and literacy with Mind The Gap, as related to the theme of reading strategies. You may note that I’m moving in a rather chronological fashion through the reading years, so I’d suggest you begin from [...]
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Following on from Skeptical Books for Children — Part One and Skeptical Books for Children — Part Two. You may note that I’m moving in a rather chronological fashion through the reading years, so I’d suggest you begin from the start if you’re new to the series of posts. I’d like to untypically begin with [...]
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This article was originally printed in The Australian Skeptic journal, Spring 2007 in an unabridged format, entitled ?Forums for Skepticism: Reflections upon Andrew Mayne?s ?Think Skeptically, Act Locally: 50 Things You Can do To Encourage Critical Thinking ?. Continuing from this post – Part One: 1) Donate a book to a library Instead of swapping [...]
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This article was originally printed in The Australian Skeptic journal, Spring 2007 in an unabridged format, entitled ‘Forums for Skepticism: Reflections upon Andrew Mayne?s ?Think Skeptically, Act Locally: 50 Things You Can do To Encourage Critical Thinking ?. It?s not enough to be noticed; it?s not enough to simply have an audience. Paris Hilton has [...]
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PodBlack Cat
Andrew Mayne Brings It!
by podblack on March 4, 2008
Yes! It’s the ‘ask and thou receive’ attitude from comments in my blog post that has resulted in the very gentlemanly Andrew Mayne himself not only blogging openly the article that inspired my ‘Forums for Skepticism’ article that was printed last year in the Australian Skeptic Journal – he also has it available as a [...]
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