Episode Eighty-One – On These Are The Ways The World Will End – Dragon*Con Panel

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 51:37 — 23.6MB) | Embed From a global pandemic to the Hadron super-collider… have some fun as our panel rips into the latest world-enders and answers your questions about why we are probably safe (for now). With many, many, MANY thanks to the Skeptrack – Derek Colanduno of Skepticality.com and Mark Ditzler at Abrupt Media. From the 2011 Skeptrack at Dragon*Con – blogpost... Read More

Episode Seventy-Eight – On Being A Noisy Astronomer – Interview With Nicole Gugliucci

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 6:47 — 9.3MB) | Embed As featured on the 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast! Donate audio and funding to this award-winning podcast by heading to their official site, at http://365daysofastronomy.org. During my fourth year working at Dragon*Con, I celebrated my first visit to the Atlanta Skeptics Star Party with Nicole Gugliucci. Nicole is a graduate student at the University of Virginia, who... Read More

Episode Sixty-Eight – On Updates And The Stars Are Her Laboratory

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (12.3MB) | Embed Download the mp3 here – also available on iTunes! A quick update episode, which includes the sad news of the passing of Derek K. Miller, who is responsible for the theme-song for the Token Skeptic podcast. Derek K. Miller worked as a writer and editor since the 1980s, specializing in technical and scientific subjects. He was also a drummer, guitarist, singer, recording artist, and... Read More

AstroFest At Curtin Uni 2011 – Token Skeptic Vodcast

With an estimated 3250 people attending, I was in the crowd on the Saturday 12 March at Curtin Stadium, Curtin University campus in Bentley – for AstroFest 2011! As you can see here, activities, displays and telescopes of all shapes and sizes, with people of all ages and backgrounds switched on to astronomy and science. With a lot of kids getting into bubbles too, funnily enough.  Read More

Episode Twenty-Seven – On The Separation Between Scientific Truth And Belief – Interview With Dr Pamela Gay

Download the mp3 of this episode here! 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 Education conference in Sydney, on the other side of Australia, and... Read More

Token Skeptic – On 365 Days Of Astronomy Today!

As a part of the ongoing contributions that I’ve made to the 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast, here’s the episode details for April 6th, 2010! April 6th: Cosmology and Creation – Many Stories, Many Skies At Perth’s Gravity Discovery Centre Can art, astronomy, education and religion co-exist? This ideal has become reality, at the Cosmology Gallery at the Gravity Discovery Centre, found at the Australian International Gravitational Observatory... Read More

365 Days Of Astronomy Supporter!

Just to make a nod to the great podcast (which I contributed twice to last year and intend to do so again this year, on the 6th April!) – the 365 Days of Astronomy podcast was sponsored by me, for the first week of February. To subscribe, contribute and donate to the show yourself, head to their official site at http://365daysofastronomy.com.  Read More