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UK: First Were The Buses – Now Atheists Get A Student Society

by podblack on February 19, 2009

The Guardian: Every religion on campus has its student society, from the Christian Union to the Jedi Knights. Now the non-religionists will have theirs too. The National Federation of Atheist, Humanist and Secular Student Societies launches today to mobilise non-believers.

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Let’s Do The Title IX Time Warp!

by podblack on September 22, 2008

I’ll be popping up a blog about how wonderful it was to meet the Western Australian Humanists later today(hello!) – but I was intrigued by the following article popping up, by Christina Hoff Sommers -’Foolishly Seeking Gender Equity in Math and Science’. And I got deja vu. Weird… and here I am, a skeptical-kind of [...]

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April 12th – Scientology Protests

by podblack on July 13, 2008

With much love to ‘K’, who drove in blizzard conditions for the cause. If you still haven’t seen the professionally edited and lengthy TANK Vodcast interviews during the first stages of Anon protests, they’re available in two eps: Sydney and Michael W and San Fran and Dr Karen ‘Skepbitch’ S! We’re more zeitgeisty than the [...]

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Classic Science Paper: Belief in Fortune Telling Amongst College Students

by podblack on June 1, 2008

The following post is for Classic Science Papers: The 2008 “Challenge”. I’m certain that when most people think of a ‘classic’ paper on a topic like superstition or belief in the paranormal, they may think of B.F Skinner’s Superstition in the Pigeon. But as you can see, it was published after World War II, whilst [...]

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Mulder And Scully – Wiseman And Watt!

by podblack on May 30, 2008

I’m nearly finished with my copy of An Introduction to Parapsychology and I’ll have to see about using it in some of my work! But in the meantime, I found a very nifty article that was printed this month about one of the co-authors, Dr Caroline Watt – Edinburgh’s Answer To Mulder and Scully (is [...]

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Interview for Curtin Radio

by podblack on January 14, 2008

Thanks to Richard Saunders for putting this together for me!

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A Day of Visions

by podblack on November 5, 2007

Today, I got the final confirmation of my thesis – all cleared by the ethics committee. I’m on my way. There were a few items in the news that caught my attention, but I have a particular fondness for telescopes. This began with my first tertiary science unit, where we were given random challenges – [...]

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