Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
So — the challenge over my holidays is to start introducing students to religion! And atheism! This is really going to be a lot of fun! The program involves ‘Ideas of God’ and ‘Religious and Mystical Experience’. While I can find a variety of useful general texts (the likes of AC Grayling, Stephen J Gould, [...]
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Interesting discussion (and clearly, rather tongue-in-cheek) stemming from a post on the Derren Brown blog in response to Dr Chris French’s article (‘Spoon Bending For Beginners‘) in the Guardian. …Don’t panic. I believe this is a development to be warmly welcomed, although I should declare a vested interest. From September, anomalistic psychology will be offered [...]
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Sheesh, maybe they should do some reading instead: UPI.com: Officers said they caught the four teenagers, ranging from 13 to 15 years old, crawling out of a Stripling Middle School window with backpacks, pillows and blankets about 1 a.m. Sunday, The Dallas Morning News reported Monday. The teenagers, who were taken to a juvenile detention [...]
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Edit to add – for further links to my research on reading, head to Skeptical Books for Children, gender and literacy with Mind The Gap, as related to the theme of reading strategies – and my soon-to-be anthologized winning post for the Open Laboratory 2008 – ‘Smart Bitches, Not Meerly Sex’! Dear Naontiotami, I’m writing [...]
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What a big day! I have just got in from a book-signing tour meeting with Dr Karl Kruszelnicki, where I nabbed about ten minutes of audio footage about his recent adventures for the next Skeptic Zone podcast! Here’s me just messing around with the video function on my digital camera… It’ll include a quick talk [...]
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Now, I don’t have time to blog on this extensively, but you can certainly check out my series of three posts (so far!) on ‘Women and Superstitions‘ where I’ve touched upon these issues before. In fact, go to my Essays pages for quite a bit on social influences. If you’re not familiar with the work [...]
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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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http://theedger.org/ – “Edger is a Center for Inquiry student initiative”. Edger presents hard-hitting and reasoned news, views, and event promotion on issues pertaining to secularism, atheism, science, humanism, and the cosmos, and actively promotes and celebrates international freethought activism. Written in a youthful tone, but mature in content, Edger is sure to be a driving [...]
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