#ten23 Films – Little Sugar Pills And The Strange Powers of the Placebo Effect

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (45.8MB) Many thanks to Matt Rodgers for his BRILLIANT visuals and Milton Mermikides for his music in this project – ‘Little Sugar Pills – Why Choose Homeopathy?‘ This will also feature on the Token Skeptic podcast later, so people can use it if they like. Their wonderful creative powers have made this just beautiful and it’s been getting some great comments both online - e.g:... Read More

The Placebo Effect

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (33.1MB) | Embed This is a short film, thanks to Daniel Keogh! He played it during his touring show ‘The Stupid Species: Why Everyone (Except You) Is An Idiot’ for Science Week. You can follow him on Twitter as ‘Professor Funk’ and hear him being interviewed on Token Skeptic #30 – On Science Communication, Hungry Beasts And Professor Funk – An Interview With Daniel Keogh.... Read More

Last Chance – To Vote For Best Australian Science Blog!

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... Read More

Episode Thirty – On Science Communication, Hungry Beasts And Professor Funk – An Interview With Daniel Keogh

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! On August 15, 2010, starting from 11am, at the Monash Science Centre,... Read More