Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
New articles out – that mention a range of states! ‘Just think: it’s important’ in the Sydney Morning Herald: …A former physics teacher, Mr. Ellerton introduced the philosophy and critical thinking program to Calamvale after joining a network of Queensland teachers which promotes and spreads the teaching of philosophy in high schools throughout the state. [...]
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I was going to just pop this into the miniblog… but it got me thinking beyond the subject it talks about: teaching evolution in modern times and changes made to the education system in Florida to cater for this. Besides, I have about three hours to kill whilst sitting here at Gatwick airport, and I [...]
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Look, I didn’t see ‘Lady in the Water‘. After ‘The Village‘, I felt that things were clearly on a downward-spiral towards ‘released straight to dvd and even then only spends a week in the new release section – if must view, then use the free-if-you-get-one-new-voucher’. I have, however (and you may hate me if you [...]
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On the news, as I write this, there is a protest. In fact, I’m certain I’ve just seen a teacher I know, waving a banner. Kind of makes me want to wave a banner about something that has bugged me for a while. Here in my state, “…after eight months of negotiations the Government has [...]
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Using Visual Means to Challenge Stereotypes – Women Scientists.com! The primary goal of this project is to encourage scientific literacy, and to promote the public’s awareness and appreciation of science and technology by humanizing the image of research science and scientists. Its other major goal is mentoring women and girls who choose to pursue careers [...]
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A lot of attention has been given to the recent win of Shivani Sud, a young woman of Indian heritage who took first prize in the Intel Science Talent Search (formerly the Westinghouse Science Talent Search). It led me to reflect upon an article by Freakonomics in the NY Times, which touches upon some recent [...]
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Welcome to my sequence of posts for this week! I’m going to be foregrounding some people via online interviews, on a range of topics and issues. My first is Australian Michael McRae, who is currently living and working in Australia’s capital city, Canberra. You’ve had a rich and interesting career, having started as a pathologist [...]
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