Episode Seventy-Seven – On The Skeptic’s Dictionary For Kids – Interview With Robert Todd Carroll

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 37:38 — 51.7MB) | Embed Apologies for the delay due to jetlag, travel and settling in back home before getting back into podcasting again. Here’s an interview about a great new online resource for young skeptics! To help kids to grow into intelligent, critically thinking adults, Robert Todd Carroll, author of the fabulous Skeptic’s Dictionary, has written just the thing: The Skeptic’s... Read More

Token Skeptic Lecture At UWA And Critical Thinking And Philosophy In Schools Conference

I recently got back from some fantastic lectures in Melbourne earlier this month – at RMIT, Melbourne University, Monash University and for the newly-launched Melbourne Skeptics and Melbourne Eastern Hills Skeptics Skeptics in the Pub with Warren Bonett of Embiggen Bookstore (which will soon open in Melbourne). Now I’m doing more presentations this week – on philosophy, critical thinking in schools and podcasting! Read More  Read More

Episodes Forty-Nine And Fifty – On Mathematical Modelling Pitfalls And More

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (8.9MB) Direct link to Episode #49 (Mp3) – On Naming Skeptical Children, 10:23 Australia And Token Skeptic In The UK. Direct link to Episode #50 (Mp3) – On Mathematical Modeling Pitfalls – Barbara Drescher And Jennifer Ouellete. Two episodes for the time of one! Or something like that. I’ll be in Manchester for QEDCon from the 4-6th February and in London from the 7-8th February (if... Read More

Re-Release Of Token Skeptic #1 – On Santa

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (8.9MB) | Embed Direct link to Mp3 here! One of my goals before the conclusion of the year is to re-release episodes that were not the best in terms of sound quality. Since it’s that time of the year – here’s the very first episode on Santa Claus. While listening to a great Skepticality podcast episode (www.skepticality.com), I found I had many unanswered questions. Delving into the research,... Read More

Episode Thirty-Five – On Science At Home – An Interview With Deb Hodgkin

I hope everyone enjoyed Australia’s Science Week! Hello to all the new subscribers and I hope you enjoy earlier episodes as well – all available at Token Skeptic and on iTunes! This episode features Deb Hodgkin of Science-at-home.org! Deb studied Human Biology and Archaeology in her Bachelor of Science, then did Honours in Anatomy.  With her Post-Graduate Diploma in Education, she taught in remote communities and towns for nine years... Read More

On Santa – Token Skeptic Episode One

While listening to a great Skepticality podcast episode (www.skepticality.com), I found I had many unanswered questions. Delving into the research, I started checking out what research has been done into belief in Santa. Is it such a bad thing to believe in Santa… and how would you gather evidence about the pros and cons? Could belief in Santa, the Easter Bunny, the tooth fairy and so forth, be a natural part of childhood development…... Read More