TAM Australia

Women And Skepticism – The Aftermath

by podblack on July 3, 2010

The following probably isn’t news at all for many of you – essentially, Pharyngula (PZ Myers) in his post The Woman Problem reflected upon another post Where are all the female skeptics at? by SkeptiFem. This led to PZ urging comments with links to sites – there were even a few very pertinent comments that [...]

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Podblack Finds And Update – 22nd June 2010

by podblack on June 22, 2010

I think it’s the first time I’ve ever walked into one of my classrooms and faced the situation where due to a tragedy in the community, a class could not be completed as scheduled. Due to that, things have been rather turned upside-down, on top of recovering from a cold. So – in order to [...]

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Perth’s Thom And Rikki Are #TAMOZ Brilliant – #justsayin

by podblack on June 6, 2010

Although this is a little delayed from when I first learned of their involvement — I do want to make this significant hat-tip to two local talents, who have done something wonderful. Thom Perry of TeePeeDesign (Chief Honcho, Supreme Being and Doubtless Ruler) and Rikki Burns (who I have already mentioned this month with her [...]

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TAM Australia – Tickets Selling 20th June 9am EST

by podblack on June 5, 2010

http://www.tamaustralia.org Registration opens on June 20 at 9:00AM Australian Eastern Standard Time. I should point out that, yes, Dr Martin Bridgstock and I applied to present back in early January, in fact, we sent in our application on the 1st. Pretty keen! We were funded by the Australian Skeptics to do a major survey and [...]

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TAM Australia And More!

by podblack on November 29, 2009

It’s all been run, run, run — I’m currently typing in the conference room as Tony Taylor, author of ‘Denial: History Betrayed’ talks about Windschuttle, Irving… and Mel Gibson as examples of historical denialists! We’re all getting the giggles about the boom in blue face-paint sales after Braveheart came out and a great breakdown of [...]

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