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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-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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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-Nine – On The Invisible Gorilla – An Interview With Daniel Simons And Christopher Chabris

17 July 2010

For many listening to this podcast – the phrase ‘Did you see the gorilla?’ might remind you of a group of people throwing a basketball to each other. For those who have no idea – before you go any further, check out the award-winning video that will feature in the show notes!

Finished watching it? What [...]

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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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Episode Twenty-Seven – On The Separation Between Scientific Truth And Belief – Interview With Dr Pamela Gay

29 June 2010

Dear listeners – firstly apologies for getting out two episodes out so soon after one another. Next week I’ll be traveling, so it is unlikely that I’ll get out an episode next week, so I hope you don’t mind that there’s a little space between this and episode twenty-eight. I’ll be attending a Philosophy and [...]

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Token Skeptic Twenty-Four – On Trebuchet – Interview Of George Hrab By Milton Mermikides

16 June 2010

Dear George Hrab,
You’re a very silly man and I’m not going to interview you.
Milton Mermikides is going to do it instead.
Regards,
Kylie Sturgess.
Trebuchet features 17 songs about skepticism, science, atheism, falling, flying, remnant evolutionary behavior, and the usefulness of one plastic lobster.
This is the first thirty-minutes of an extended interview by Milton Mermikides with George Hrab; [...]

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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 Eight – On Skepticism And Cosmetic Claims

19 April 2010

Here’s the first of my ‘filling in the missing episodes’ – and many thanks to those who continue to subscribe and support the show, I really appreciate it!
This is an edited version of a presentation done at The Australian Skeptics convention held in Melbourne, in 2006. It was the first Australian skeptical convention I’d ever [...]

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