Episode Sixty-Six – On SwanCon 2011 – Interview With Sean Williams And SciFi Meets Education

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (25.2MB) | Embed Download the mp3 of Episode #66 here! SwanCon is a science fiction convention held in Perth, Western Australia. It is Australia’s longest running science fiction convention, and probably the longest running in the southern hemisphere. Resources from the EduStream feature at: http://fablecroft.com.au/swancon-edustream Questions about the relevance of Science Fiction and Fantasy to education... Read More

Episode Fifty-Nine – On Tim Minchin – Review And Interview Of Tim Minchin vs WASO Performance

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (29.9MB) | Embed Sorry to everyone who got the messed-up audio – it’s now fixed! Link to mp3 of episode #59 here. A short additional-bonus episode for this week, adding to the previous one on Simon Taylor!This episode features a review of Tim Minchin’s show from the Saturday, 5th March ‘Tim Minchin vs the West Australian Orchestra‘ performance in King’s Park. If you’re... Read More

Episode Fifty-Two – On Thinking Freely In Western Sydney – Interview With Alan Conradi

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (55.9MB) | Embed Direct download to episode (mp3) here! “My use of the term ‘Freethought’ is an attempt to join the various groups together. It does not come with the negative connotations of the various other labels that have been assigned to such groups before and is therefore more accessible to the wider community. Freethought seems to be less likely to shy away from any topics, which... Read More

Episode Forty-Six – On The Australian Book Of Atheism – Perth Launch

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (39.9MB) | Embed Link to the mp3 of this episode – here! First and foremost and absolutely before anything – thanks to Jane and Beaufort Street Books in Mt Lawley, Warren Bonett and Peter Cartledge.We had a live-Skype crossover Q&A with Warren in front of a packed bookstore to talk about The Australian Book of Atheism. This episode features how the book started, the contributors and how it was... Read More

Episode Forty-Two – On Breakfast And Blogging – Interviews At TAMOz Fringe

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (21.7MB) | Embed Direct link to mp3 here! A short mixture of interviews and opinions from the ‘Blogger’s Breakfast’, a gathering of early-morning breakfasting skeptics in the shade of the Sydney Harbor Bridge. Includes the ‘Placebo Bands’, Dave the Happy Singer (of www.davethehappysinger.com) the Australian Book of Atheism, Homologous Legs blog, Victorian Skeptics website... Read More

Re-Release of Ayaan Hirsi Ali Interview – Episode Thirty-Two

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (45.1MB) | Embed Finally got the bandwidth issues sorted! My first priority upon doing that ? Getting this re-released, after tinkering with the sound and hopefully making it clearer for listeners. Since I’m now on school holidays, and have access to software, I thought I’d give it a try. Direct link to the MP3 of the interview It should also be updated on iTunes and Zune – you can... 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

Episode Twenty-Five – On Books – The Second Embiggen Book Review Show

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 Goldstein; Flat Earth News, by Nick Davies. You’ll... Read More

Episode Thirteen – On Skepticism And Comedy (Bonus Chaser Interview)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (9.1MB) | Embed Thanks to everyone who picked up one of the Token Skeptic stickers at the Global Atheist convention last weekend – and here’s a little bonus just for you! I interviewed Julian Morrow of the Chaser, who featured at the Saturday night dinner. The Chaser is an Australian satirical comedian group, most famous for their television programmes on Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The... Read More

Episode Twelve – On Science And Atheism

Welcome to an interview on a topic that has been buzzing all over the blogosphere! Daniel Loxton’s posts on Skeptic Blog, called “The Standard Pablum” — Science and Atheism and Further Thoughts on Atheism discuss reviews and issues raised by his new book Evolution: How We and All Living Things Came to Be. Since comments on those posts have numbered over two-hundred and the debate has raged onto other people’s sites – I took... Read More