Episode Thirty-Four – On Saving Your Breath For Running Ponies – An Interview With Bec Crew For Science Week

It is a great honor to celebrate Australia’s National Science Week for 2010, by interviewing science blogger Bec Crew, who writes the informative and hilarious Save Your Breath For Running Ponies! She’s a twenty-six year old Archeology graduate and journalist, who won the Big Blog Theory Competition by popular vote, earning it the title of Best Australian Science Blog. Bec works at Australia’s Cosmos Magazine as an editorial assistant. As... Read More

Episode Thirty-One – On Science Communication – An Interview With Dr Jesse Shore

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (17.8MB) SORRY FOR THE DELAY – Libsyn upload was completely unhelpful and I did a ‘work-around’. MP3 of the episode is here! 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! He is the brain behind the science communication consultancy company Prismatic Sciences... Read More

Live-Blogged – Vaccination, The Facts – At Podblack.Com!

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 On ‘Vaccination. The Experts. The Facts.’ Thank you very much to... Read More

Episode Twenty-Six – On Chronic Illness, Deaf Culture And Skepticism – Interview With Joey Haban

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 Los Angeles, with a husband (a videogame technical director) and two unemployed Burmese cats, Zen... Read More

Episode Seventeen – On How We Only Like You Because You’re Good In Blog – Blogging Skeptically

Welcome to the special episode that celebrates SheThought.com! Today, the 22nd of April, you can contribute and read a variety of blog entries at SheThought.com on the subject of ‘We Only Like You Because You’re Good in Blog‘: How do you start a blog, pick a name, get and keep readers, and deal with trolls, cliques, and flame wars? How has the recent UK libel case vs Simon Singh changed blogging? Why blog at all? How is blogging different... Read More