Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
Yesterday I got an alert from one of my many Facebook contacts, about a documentary that has just been released in the US and is yet to arrive in Australia: Waiting for Superman. As he follows a handful of promising kids through a system that inhibits, rather than encourages, academic growth, Guggenheim undertakes an exhaustive [...]
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From Boing Boing: (List of who delivers each line is available at http://www.olganunes.com/xkcd) The incomparable Olga Nunes has released the latest and greatest iteration of the net’s appreciation for Discovery Channel’s “Boom-De-Yadda” commercial, reennacting the XKCD version with “Neil Gaiman, Wil Wheaton, Cory Doctorow, Lawrence Lessig, Bruce Schneier, Jason Kottke, Google Zurich, Hank Green, MC [...]
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Now, if it were ‘Australian Skeptics’, it’d would arguably be a better joke… ah well, close enough.
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Earlier reviews of the show Hungry Beast can be found here. @lokified So #hungrybeast presents us info without making a point? Tanja offers “Maybe they’re giving us the info so we can make up our own minds.” I was going to write about this week’s Hungry Beast. Such as, a rather deft depiction of a [...]
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From XKCD: Have I ever mentioned that I had two students do a preliminary study on ‘Bloody Mary’ / ‘Candyman‘ by doing this exact same thing? They had issues finding enough non-pop culture resources on the origin of doing it though and eventually switched their project to just looking at the Ouija board. I should [...]
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Having reflected upon the survey I did for the site, earlier in the year, I have a few plans as to ‘what to do in 2009′. Some of the things you might have noticed is that I try to make an effort to promote other sites and projects, as well as making a firm effort [...]
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Well, I have a lot of work coming up — so here’s a blog post to say that you won’t be catching much of me over the next few days! Maybe to get over the fact that 68 percent of Americans say they do believe in angels — pdf by Pew Report. Or perhaps not. [...]
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Little Kitten – Internet Argument
by podblack on June 18, 2008
Pity, how these things get started…
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