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TAMOz Fringe Podcast Interviews At Token Skeptic

by podblack on November 27, 2010

Episode Forty-Two – On Breakfast And Blogging – Interviews At TAMOz Fringe A direct link to the mp3 here! A short mixture of interviews and opinions from the ‘Blogger’s Breakfast’, a gathering of early-morning breakfasting skeptics in the shade of the Sydney Harbor Bridge. Includes the ‘Placebo Bands’, Dave the Happy Singer (of www.davethehappysinger.com), the [...]

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I’m in Sydney! Going to head out soon, I appear to have missed several events already (shame on my podcast members for not telling me what’s going on!) But I forgot to mention before I left home – yes, I finally got these following episodes online! Question. Explore. Discover. Token Skeptic Forty – On The [...]

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#TAMOz Spoon Bending – Possibly Record Breaking?

by podblack on November 9, 2010

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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The QI Crop Circle – Revealed!

by podblack on September 30, 2010

Don’t forget, if you’re in Australia, the recording of the live show that Stephen Fry did in Sydney earlier this year will be featured on ABC, this Sunday.

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The very charming Mr Sheep found me just as I was tormenting the spruikers for Amnesty International outside the Martin Place train-station (I was inquiring about the case of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani and they strangely didn’t have the foggiest idea what I was talking about) and I eagerly dragged him down to the Darling Harbour [...]

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(Live-Blogging the presentation at the FAPSA conference: ‘Democracy and Philosophy Education’ by Phillip Cam – this isn’t strictly live-blogging, since I did it using a Word document on the day and only now have had the chance to post it) An interview with Phillip Cam, an associate professor of history and philosophy at the University [...]

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If you’re interested in seeing the other video adventures I have, head to the podblackdotcom YouTube Channel. This site will be updated again soon, and I’ll feature a few in a new section

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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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