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Last Chance – To Vote For Best Australian Science Blog!

22 July 2010

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 [...]

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

1 July 2010

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 [...]

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Token Skeptic Twenty-Four And A Half – Trebuchet By George Hrab

16 June 2010

George Hrab  Trebuchet

Featuring Phil Plait, Peter Gregson, Slau, and The Skeptical Shoe Horns.
1. God is Not Great
2. Everything Alive Will Die Someday
3. Ms.Information
4. Fifty Stories
5. FAR
6. Remora
7. Sviatoslav Lobster
8. When I Was Your Age
9. Trebuchet
10. Atlanta
11. Death From The Skies
12. Never Knew
13. Hai Yookito ‘Ya
14. Where Have You Been?
15. One Hypnopompic Jerk
16. Small Comfort
17. [...]

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Episode Twenty-One – On Truth, Realism And Non-Realism (Lecture By A.C Grayling)

18 May 2010

This is episode twenty-one and a slight deviation from the usual fare!
This is a recorded lecture from A.C Grayling, taken at a presentation he did in Perth earlier this year, suitable for high-school students.
Anthony Grayling MA, DPhil (Oxon) FRSL, FRSA is Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London, and a Supernumerary Fellow of [...]

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Episode Twenty – On Books – The First Embiggen Book Review Show

17 May 2010

Welcome to episode twenty of the Token Skeptic!
This week I’m interviewing Warren Bonett of Embiggen Books. We also discuss some great science books and I hope will be a regular feature in forthcoming shows.
Warren’s bookstore, Embiggen Books, is in Noosaville on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland Australia. Their website is www.embiggenbooks.com.
The books reviewed for this [...]

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Episode Seven – On Critical Thinking (Interview Kylie Sturgess And Michael McRae – Expanding Horizons)

6 May 2010

It’s a missing episode! This is an interview that is thanks to Expanding Horizons. Expanding Horizons is a Unitarian church radio show from South Australia, featured on Radio Adelaide 101.5 and hosted by Brian Menzies.
With a wide range of topics and investigations, Brian was kind enough last year to call upon both Michael McRae and [...]

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

3 May 2010

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 [...]

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Episode Eighteen – On The Placebo Protest (Skepticism And Communication Part Three)

1 May 2010

UPDATE! Last minute additional guest!
Welcome to Episode Eighteen! This particular episode is another conversation with Michael McRae, about the #boobquake day, held on the 26th April, earlier this week. 
I also, thanks to the Virtual Drinking Skeptically chat which inspired me, have Desiree Schell of Skeptically Speaking included! As a community outreach worker, she brings her [...]

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

22 April 2010

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 [...]

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Episode Sixteen – On One Woman’s Struggle For Secularism

9 April 2010

Download episode #16 using the links on the left-hand column – includes iTunes, mp3 and Zune!
Hello listeners, this has been a rather busy week for podcasting, mostly because I’m on my first week of school holidays! However, there won’t be an Episode 17 out next week, because I’m finishing other work during the break – [...]

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