Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
I really loved this book and really enjoyed interviewing the authors – now you can read a segment of it from over at the Committee For Skeptical Inquiry website, in my ‘Curiouser and Curiouser’ column! An Interview with Professor Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris – CSI Professor Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris have released The [...]
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The waiting is over! New issue of The Skeptic (22.3) now available at the UK Skeptics site. Not only but also… this edition includes an interview with Professor Bruce M Hood, plus a book review of his work ‘Supersense’ / ‘The Science of Superstition’ (I have gifted so many copies of it to so many [...]
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Don’t forget to check out the latest Token Skeptic Episode: On How We Only Like You Because You’re Good In Blog – Blogging Skeptically. Submission for ‘We Only Like You Because You’re Good in Blog’ Day! …what we will NOT tolerate are veiled threats or references to violence or sex acts such as those above. [...]
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While I’ve been busy completing projects, photocopying, organising programs and essentially catching up on the list of ‘to do’ – I learned today that I neglected to mention something. I was dropping off a CD to a friend, for them to use in an upcoming convention and I mentioned my new job. They were rather [...]
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“Now we can go straight / into the middle eight / a bridge that is too far for me” There’s been a few comments and links popping up over the past two days that I thought I’d collate here – mostly to add to the discussion of skeptical blogging that I started earlier with The [...]
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Welcome to ‘how to write a skeptically-minded blog-post by someone who sails on average around five hundred hits a day for their writing, after slightly over a year of composing various entries ranging from research on women and belief to funny YouTube links about cats‘. Although I clearly have an audience (hello!), the voting for [...]
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I was alerted to the following comment on a blog site – a person I didn’t meet, but they also attended Dragon*Con – from Watching the Wheels: Personally I thought it was just as applicable to those of us either officially in journalism or riding the fence somewhere between journalism and entertainment (we know who [...]
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