Token Skeptic Thirty-Nine – On Updates And Events
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (15.5MB) | Embed MP3 Direct Download Here – Token Skeptic #39 – On Updates And Events. Updates, emails from listeners and tours, other podcasts, other events and all that – thanks again to my persistent listeners! The George Hrab Styrofoam Tour – Nov. 29 - Brisbane, QLD The Redbrick Hotel, 83 Annerley Road, South Brisbane 7.30 PM Nov. 30 - Melbourne, VIC Clyde Hotel, 385 Cardigan... 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
Live-Blogged – Vaccination, The Facts – At Podblack.Com!
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 On ‘Vaccination. The Experts. The Facts.’ Thank you very much to... Read More
Token Skeptic Twenty-Four And A Half – Trebuchet By George Hrab
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. Happy Birthday Baby available at cdbaby.com/hrab6... Read More
Episode Twenty-One – On Truth, Realism And Non-Realism (Lecture By A.C Grayling)
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 St Anne’s College, Oxford. He has written and edited over twenty books on philosophy and... Read More
Episode Twenty – On Books – The First Embiggen Book Review Show
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 episode are: Michael Specter’s Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders... Read More
Episode Seven – On Critical Thinking (Interview Kylie Sturgess And Michael McRae – Expanding Horizons)
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 I to talk about our experiences as teachers and to address that tricky question: ‘What is critical thinking’? I... 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
Episode Eighteen – On The Placebo Protest (Skepticism And Communication Part Three)
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (64.9MB) The direct Mp3 download of this episode is here. 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 own experiences... 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
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