He is the brain behind the science communication consultancy company Prismatic Sciences (based in NSW). His experience includes working at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, coordinating public events, and science festivals. Dr Shore has served or is serving on state coordinating committees for National Science Week. He is also on working groups relating to the recent Inspiring Australia Report, which we discuss briefly during this interview.
Additional News: August 15, 2010, starting from 11am, at the Monash Science Centre, Clayton, Victoria – the Brains Matter Live show! Check out the Brains Matter podcast site for more at www.brainsmatter.com. Congratulations to the Science Bloggers Bec Crew of Running Ponies blog and the microblogger cbsquared_ – winners of the Big Blog Theory! Check out Bec reporting nationwide for Science Week in August. In addition, check your local science news for the national tour by Daniel Keogh, called “Why We’re the Stupid Species”.
This show is available on Zune, mp3 via Libsyn or iTunes. Speaking of iTunes, you can find and rate all of the shows there, or you can visit www.tokenskeptic.org – I’d love to hear your feedback at tokenskeptic@gmail.com. Theme songs are ‘P&P’ by Derek K Miller of www.penmachine.com and ‘365′ by Milton Mermikides, at www.miltonmermikides.com.
Daniel Keogh, who was interviewed in Token Skeptic episode #30, gives some suggestions as to what makes a good science blogger!
Oh – and vote vote vote – head to Science Week’s The Big Blog Theory, found at this link – notice that there’s a microblogging category as well as science blogging (which is where you can find mine and others)! Do read all the entries in the running, there’s wonderful writers in the finals and it’s great that we’re all being recognised!
Multiple eps on iTunes explained! I‘ve upgraded to Libsyn 3 and the same thing happened to the Geologic podcast and Skeptic Zone – suddenly there’s a whole bunch of older eps that you’ll find in your podcatcher! :/ I think the only thing that can be done is just delete them.
I’m tempted to get back into the older eps and improve the sound, but I think I’d get the same complaint… sorry about that.
Thanks for listening everyone, it’s really appreciated – and let me know if the sound quality improves, it’s something I’ve been focusing on.
This is episode thirty! Work starts for me again this week, so to save some time, I’m putting this episode online a little earlier than usual. Since this interview focuses on a favourite topic of mine, Science Communication – I thought I’d plug an event by a fellow podcaster who will be doing something special for Australia’s Science Week. Here are the details!
As I mentioned last show – there’s quite a few of us who have been nominated as finalists for the Big Blog Theory – that includes the Brains Matter podcast and Leslie Cannold as microbloggers on Twitter! Check out all the entries, including my own as Podblack Cat blog, and the Young Australian Skeptic’s Jack Scanlan, Dr Rachael Dunlop and Bec Crew’s Running Ponies and many more – at http://thebigblogtheory.com.au. I’d love to celebrate Australia’s Science Week by blogging across the country, so check us all out and nominate!
When I was in Sydney recently, I had the chance to talk to Daniel Keogh. He describes himself as an Ex-Hungry Beast idiot and a current ABC Science Show producer, who shares interesting stuff about science, politics, culture, and art. Like my friend Michael McRae, he has qualifications in science communication, having graduated from the Australian National University’s Centre for the Public Awareness of Science – where they were both Science Circus members!
Daniel has done some extremely funny and powerful presentations on scientific topics for ABC’s Hungry Beast TV show, including investigations on Gardasil for Guys, Scientology and even Zombies! His ‘Professor Funk’ on Youtube can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/TheProfessorFunk.
He currently works at ABC studios in Ultimo, where we conducted the interview, and he’ll be touring the country for Australia’s Science Week with his show ‘Why We’re the Stupid Species’, details of which will be featured on the Science Week website – at http://www.scienceweek.gov.au/.
For many listening to this podcast – the phrase ‘Did you see the gorilla?’ might remind you of a group of people throwing a basketball to each other. For those who have no idea – before you go any further, check out the award-winning video that will feature in the show notes!
Finished watching it? What you have just seen is part of a 2004 Ig Nobel award-winning study – which makes the following interview really quite special.
Christopher Chabris and Prof Daniel Simons have released a book about their ten years of research – on why people succumb to everyday illusions and what we can do to inoculate ourselves against their effects. Called The Invisible Gorilla, it details the experiment and how it might explain such things as why companies spend billions on product they knows will fail and why award-winning movies are full of editing mistakes. They combine the work of other researchers with their own findings on attention, perception, memory, and reasoning to reveal how faulty intuitions often get us into trouble.
By the way – my science blog Podblack is up for an Australian science blogging award! Head to http://thebigblogtheory.com.au and support bloggers for Science Week!
This show is available on Zune, mp3 via Libsyn or iTunes. Speaking of iTunes, you can find and rate all of the shows there, or you can visit www.tokenskeptic.org – I’d love to hear your feedback at tokenskeptic@gmail.com.
‘Did you know that children whose parents make a conscientious decision to have them opt out of Special Religious Education (SRE) are prohibited from any form of instruction during this period? NSW Department of Education policy provides for the supervision of these children but specifies they are not to have access [...]
This is for the few people who got my ’sticker’ for the Token Skeptic podcast tonight, who attended the Perth Telethon Institution Lecture ‘Vaccination. The Experts. The Facts.’
The entire event was live-blogged by me during the time it was happening, so the notes I took feature over at my blog-site www.podblack.com:
Live-Blogging The Telethon Institution Lecture [...]
Dear listeners – firstly apologies for getting out two episodes out so soon after one another. Next week I’ll be traveling, so it is unlikely that I’ll get out an episode next week, so I hope you don’t mind that there’s a little space between this and episode twenty-eight. I’ll be attending a Philosophy and [...]
Welcome to episode twenty six of the Token Skeptic!
This week I’m interviewing Joey Haban of the blog Newly Nerfed. Newly Nerfed is a blog about chronic illness and disability, science and skepticism, and geekery of all kinds, that you can find at http://newly-nerfed.net.
She describes herself on her site as ‘a 36-year-old geeky gal living in [...]
Welcome to episode twenty-five of the Token Skeptic!
This week I’m interviewing Warren Bonett of Embiggen Books, for the second book-review episode!
Warren’s bookstore, Embiggen Books, is in Noosaville on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland Australia. Their website is www.embiggenbooks.com.
The books reviewed for this episode are:
Thirty-Six Arguments for the Existence of God – A Novel, by Rebecca [...]
Welcome to Episode Thirty-One! This week, after attending a workshop on evaluation, I had the chance to talk to the President of the Australian Science Communicators, Dr Jesse Shore!
Multiple eps on iTunes explained! I‘ve upgraded to Libsyn 3 and the same thing happened to the Geologic podcast and Skeptic Zone – suddenly there’s a whole bunch of older eps that you’ll find in your podcatcher! :/ I think the only thing that can be done is just delete them. 
