Episode Sixty-Seven – On The Vaccine Times – Interview With Leart Shaka And Julia Sherred

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (27.1MB) | Embed Download the mp3 from here – also available on iTunes! This month I was fortunate enough to interview two keen activists for health and community welfare in the face of anti-vaccination – two of the change-makers behind the Vaccine Times: Leart Shaka, Editor in Chief and design editor Julia Sherred! Leart just had an article published on the JREF website: Measles, Measles Go... Read More

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

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 Forty-Three – On The Australian Amazing Meeting

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (66.9MB) Welcome to episode forty-three! Direct download of the MP3 here. Interviews include: Nicholas and Alex Southhall  – Warren Bonett and the Booksellers for Embiggen Books – Simon Singh – Jack Scanlan of the Young Australian Skeptics -  Madge Carew-Hopkins the winner of the TAMOz student scholarship – Thom Perry, one of the webdesigners and branding experts for the TAMOz convention... Read More

Episode Thirty-Eight – On Skepticism And Education At Dragon*Con 2010 – Live Panel Show

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (57.0MB) | Embed Direct Link to mp3 of Episode Thirty-Eight of the Token Skeptic podcast. Welcome to a special release for the Token Skeptic podcast! JREF now has a Director of Educational Programs – what else is being done out there and how can skeptics help educate the next generation? This is the audio of the panel recorded at Dragon*Con 2010, featuring moderator DJ Grothe and panelists Barbara... 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

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

Episode Twenty-Eight – On Secular Ethics Classes – An Interview With Dr Philip Cam

‘Did you know that children whose parents make a conscientious decision to have them opt out of Special Religious Education (SRE) are prohibited from any form of instruction during this period? NSW Department of Education policy provides for the supervision of these children but specifies they are not to have access to ‘ethics, values, civics or general religious education.’ – St James Ethics Centre. Hello and welcome... Read More

Episode Nineteen – On Skepticism And Education (Interview With JREF’s Michael Blanford)

Thanks to everyone who commented on the last episode, ‘On The Placebo Protest – Skepticism Communication Part Three’ - particularly the Digital Cuttlefish for writing in verse and Gold from the NZ Skeptics and Greg Laden. This is Episode 19 – On Skepticism and Education – and I’m getting back into the swing of things by working on today to release the final two missing episodes AND the required ‘one episode... Read More