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 Seventy-Six – On Manga And Amaz!ng-ness – Interview With Jack Scanlan And Sara Mayhew

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 41:39 — 38.8MB) | Embed I’m back… and this is a little double-interview (for the price of one!) with two wonderful people: Jack Scanlan of the Young Australian Skeptics/ Naontiotami blog and Sara Mayhew of ‘There Are Four Lights’ blog and ‘Legend of the Ztarr’ fame!They are both first-time Amaz!ng Meeting attendees (Sara presented on the main stage!) and... Read More

Episode Forty-Five – On Women, Myths, Feminism and Skepticism – Live Dragon*Con Panel

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (71.6MB) | Embed Direct Link to mp3 here! The following is taken from one of the Dragon*Con panels: Women: Myths, Feminism And Skepticism – Puzzled by feminine mystique? Still searching for your ‘inner Velma’? Attend this panel by a range of experienced investigators on the topics of gender, pop-culture and what science REALLY tells us! Desiree Schell, Barbara Drescher, Donna Mugavero, K.O. Myers,... Read More

Token Skeptic Podcast – Videos Of Dragon*Con

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (24.3MB) | Embed This was the third year that I worked at the ‘SkepTrack’ at Dragon*Con – lectures / panels I presented included: Skeptically Speaking: Skeptically Speaking, the talk radio show that asks you to call in and question everything, will be airing live from the SkepTrack stage. This is now online as Episode #76, The Women of Skepticism. Podcasting Beyond Belief: The official... 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

Episode Fifteen – On Women’s Intuition And Myths In Psychology (Prof. Scott Lilienfeld Interview)

Download episode #15 using the links on the left-hand column – includes iTunes, mp3 and Zune! Women’s intuition? Is it just a myth? And if it is just a commonly held misconception – should we be more understanding? I interview Dr. Scott Lilienfeld, a Professor of Psychology at Emory University in Atlanta on this and much more! Professor Lilienfeld is a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, a Consulting Editor for Skeptical... Read More