Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
You may know that the The Australian Skeptics National Convention, (or as they call it, ‘Briskepticon’, which is how you can find it tagged on Twitter), will be held next weekend at the University of Queensland. What you may not know is that on Friday, 27th November, before the convention starts – there’s going to [...]
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A little while back (‘Cassandra‘), I was worried about how well skeptics worked with teachers and the education system and how seriously they took the need to interact with them as fellow stakeholders. This is why. Thanks, Dr Ben Goldacre.
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It’s Parent/Teacher night – you may know it as teacher feedback, parent/teacher conferences. They’re all pretty much the same. I get a list of dozens of students names the day before. I take masses of journals and files down with me to a hall, get given a badge, find a table with my name plaque [...]
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Far be it from me that I should mock the profession that I worked in (and still work in, to some extent), but… okay, I’ve been making fun of the plight of a fellow teacher who has a pile of grading to get done (yes, that’s his site, go visit it). I should be sympathetic. [...]
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Ben Radford, Joe Nickell, George Hrab, Slau, Richard Saunders, the panels on Darwin’s Bulldogs, Skeptical Teaching and chilling out on Monday night, up in the lounge area on the nineteenth-floor with Daniel, George, Rachael, Richard, Steve, Cheryl and Derek. There was a question on Twitter about the questions from the audience during Radford/Nickell’s talk? There’s [...]
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Some great posts featured when Cheshire hosts a Skeptic Party! Ones I particularly enjoyed — Matt from the Skeptical Teacher discussing LHC doomsday conspiracy theories and Barbara A. Drescher from ICBS Everywhere on things which aren’t there and spinning circles and serial killers! Enjoy the read, I’m going to be rather sporadic for the rest [...]
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Today, in the very early morning, I received an email about how one of my former students died. Naturally, this led me to post cryptic depressed messages on Twitter, jump to a conclusion about something I heard, discover in my other emails that a deadline has shifted and generally turn into an echinoderm with a [...]
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An essay on Walt Whitman that has to be seen to be believed… or maybe it’s just a funny hoax… …I quite like his take on religion too… Peter Nguyen on the Stations of the Cross.
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