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Episode Thirty-Three – On Coral Reefs And Climate Change – An Interview With Craig Reid Conducted By Warren Bonett

11 August 2010

A very special episode for number thirty-three – this is thanks to Warren Bonett of the Embiggen Books bookstore!
Over the past ten years, Craig Reid has been working on coral reefs as a diver, educator, researcher and underwater photographer. Coral Reefs and Climate Change, his first publication as principle author, is the [...]

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Episode Thirty-One – On Science Communication – An Interview With Dr Jesse Shore

30 July 2010

SORRY FOR THE DELAY – Libsyn upload was completely unhelpful and I did a ‘work-around’. MP3 of the episode is here!
Welcome to Episode Thirty-One! This week, after attending a workshop on evaluation, I had the chance to talk to the President of the Australian Science Communicators, Dr Jesse Shore!
He is the brain behind [...]

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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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Libsyn 3 And ‘Where Did All These Episodes Come From??’

18 July 2010

Multiple eps on iTunes explained! I‘ve upgraded to Libsyn 3 and the same thing happened to the Geologic podcast and Skeptic Zone – suddenly there’s a whole bunch of older eps that you’ll find in your podcatcher! :/ I think the only thing that can be done is just delete them.
I’m tempted to [...]

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

12 July 2010

‘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 [...]

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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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Episode Twenty-Five – On Books – The Second Embiggen Book Review Show

22 June 2010

Welcome to episode twenty-five of the Token Skeptic!
This week I’m interviewing Warren Bonett of Embiggen Books, for the second book-review episode!
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:

Thirty-Six Arguments for the Existence of God – A Novel, by Rebecca [...]

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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-Three – On Big Pharma – Interview With Dr Leslie Cannold and Michael McRae

11 June 2010

Welcome to Token Skeptic #23 – a discussion between Dr Leslie Cannold and Michael McRae on perceptions of pharmaceutical companies!
Firstly – my apologies about the sound quality for this particular episode, I have tried to improve the sound but unfortunately it’s as best as it can get.
After reading ‘The Immortal Cells of Henrietta Lacks’ by [...]

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Episode Six – On Trial By Ordeal – Witch-Hunting And Superstition

29 May 2010

Here’s the FINAL missing episode – with the sound fixed and an addition from a recent news report!
Professor Peter T. Leeson’s paper on ‘Ordeals’ looks at the medieval superstition ‘iudicium dei’ – or the judgment of God – the practice of judging a person’s innocence or guilt by ordeal. This could include putting your [...]

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