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Episode Thirty-Five – On Science At Home – An Interview With Deb Hodgkin

23 August 2010

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 [...]

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Episode Thirty-Four – On Saving Your Breath For Running Ponies – An Interview With Bec Crew For Science Week

14 August 2010

It is a great honor to celebrate Australia’s National Science Week for 2010, by interviewing science blogger Bec Crew, who writes the informative and hilarious Save Your Breath For Running Ponies! She’s a twenty-six year old Archeology graduate and journalist, who won the Big Blog Theory Competition by popular vote, earning it the title of [...]

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Episode Thirty-Two – On Infidels And Nomads – An Interview With Ayaan Hirsi Ali Conducted By Reverend Canon Frank Sheehan

4 August 2010

Mp3 Download Here – or via Token Skeptic iTunes.
This episode would not be possible if it were not for the opportunity given to me by Christ Church Grammar School – particularly the Centre for Ethics and Reverend Canon Frank Sheehan and Teresa Scott – and St Hilda’s Anglican School for Girls.
This is an interview conducted [...]

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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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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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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 Twenty-Two – On Rights (Lecture By A.C Grayling)

18 May 2010

This is the second half of the Professor AC Grayling lecture recorded on the second of March at ChristChurch Grammar school – this is on the concept of rights.
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 [...]

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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 Fourteen – On Science Fiction And Skepticism (#Swancon Scott Sigler Interview)

5 April 2010

Download episode #14 using the links on the left-hand column – includes iTunes, mp3 and Zune!
An exclusive! Scott Sigler – New York Times best-selling author, podcaster (and the man who shaved fellow presenter John Samuel’s hair to raise $300 for cancer charity) – was in my town for this weekend!
SwanCon is a science-fiction convention that [...]

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