Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
Ah, research, I love it. Like today’s inbox – if you’re a teen girl who is on the internet too much and drink alcohol, it adversely influences your health! Or maybe you’d like to check out some punk-rock robots who pogo for science? “The robot brain, for want of a better word, was played lots [...]
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It’s going to be a busy few days this week – today we’re looking over the Philosothon footage! Then for the first time, I’m going to the Education Department, because for the past ten years I’ve been an Independent Schools teacher and never had a reason to visit what they call ‘Silver City’. That’ll be [...]
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Hello Ian, here’s what I promised to you at the WW meeting this past weekend! Pardon if I have a certain ‘skeptical’ attitude throughout – because I do know that having gone through lots and lots of professional development experiences, I’ve got a natural wariness about possibly supporting ‘snake oil in education’. Things I’ve put [...]
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Currently in Canberra! Will tell you later of my presentation and the assorted skeptic-conference-related hijinks – Paul Willis has the best black bondage jacket which I borrowed for the dinner – but after listening to the empowering efforts of Loretta Marron, I just MUST point out this article in the Weekend Australian: Complementary medicine research [...]
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9.00am-ish: I’m sitting in a corner of the leather-suite themed bar at the Country Comfort in Wagga Wagga, watching polar bears lollop about on Animal Planet. So far I’ve met Ken Greatorex of the Victorian Skeptics and saw Barry Williams hop into his car to go exploring around WW… but after three hours of sleep, [...]
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Yes, it’s true – today I zoom off to hang out with a select group of Australian Skeptics at the sooper-sekrit (well, not really, it’s been on the cards for a while now) meeting in Wagga Wagga! You should see my flight plan, it’s Perth-Melbourne-Sydney-WW then WW-Sydney-Canberra (to hang out with Michael ‘Athon’ McRae and [...]
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