As I blogged previously: Meryl Dorey Of The AVN – Appearance On National Indigenous Radio Service (NIRS) Appearing on the 98.9 Queensland radio station – an Indigenous, government funded radio station - Meryl Dorey is now advising the listeners in rural and remote areas on vaccinations. Now the full transcript is up here. Many thanks, by the way, to all the commentators on the previous blog-post that I made on this topic; there are some very interesting viewpoints and lots of support for the Stop … [Read more...]
Wednesday Links – Critical Thinking And Vegetarianism, Psychic Fails, SOPA And More
December 21, 2011 by 2 Comments
There's a few "Christmas trees made out of books" pictures online, but this was the only one that I found that took it REALLY seriously in order to make it pretty and tidy. There's even a video about how they made it at the Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center at the University of Nevada, Reno.Thanks to Michael McRae for this find: Vegan Baloney on PYTHAGOREAN CRANK: Of course, I could just be yet another crank who thinks he’s thinking critically but really conforming it around a cherished bias. But … [Read more...]
The Life You Can Save – Seasonal Giving And Charities Close To Home
December 21, 2011 by 2 Comments
I've been having one of those missed-connection discussions on Facebook recently, where I (mostly likely because I was attempting to contribute to the discussion while standing in line for forty-five minutes at KMart by typing on my phone and there's only so many characters you can type before giving up in frustration with the tiny screen and ending up sounding both snappish, random or even completely off-topic) was chatting to DJ Grothe and a few other contributors about a news item he linked … [Read more...]
The Young Australian Skeptics – Skeptical Blog Anthology – Out Now!
December 21, 2011 by 3 Comments
A short article on SWIFT about the anthology now out! All proceeds of the anthology go to the Young Australian Skeptics.The Skeptical Blog Anthology features essays by:Dr Phillip Plait of “Bad Astronomy”, Dr Karen Stollznow of the Point of Inquiry Podcast, Sharon Hill, Dr Petra Boynton, Brian Thompson of The Amateur Scientist podcast, Skeptic Blog’s Daniel Loxton and Yau-Man Chan, New York City Skeptics’ Lisa Bauer, UK Skeptic Dr Chris French, Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe’s Evan Bernstein … [Read more...]
Token Skeptic Transcript – Burzynski And Skeptical Bloggers At CSICOP’s Curiouser And Curiouser
December 20, 2011 by 3 Comments
Now out on the Curiouser and Curiouser column on the CSICOP website - a transcript of the Token Skeptic podcast episode that featured UK's Andy Lewis of Quackometer:On Stanislaw Burzynski, the Streisand Effect, and Standing Up for Skeptical Bloggers Kylie Sturgess: Who is Stanislaw Burzynski? Andy Lewis: Well, that’s a very good question. As far as I can understand, he’s a doctor based in Texas who a number of years ago came up with an idea that certain sorts of chemicals were missing from ca … [Read more...]
Omni-Directional Spider Robot (And It Likes Teddy Bears)
December 20, 2011 by 2 Comments
Meryl Dorey Of The AVN – Appearance On National Indigenous Radio Service (NIRS)
December 19, 2011 by 17 Comments
Appearing on the 98.9 Queensland radio station - an Indigenous, government funded radio station - Meryl Dorey is now advising the listeners in rural and remote areas on vaccinations.Here's some of the transcript that I've made: Tiga Bayles: Today I have an interesting guest with an interesting topic; we're talking about freedom of speech, the right to make free and informed decisions or give free and informed consent. We're not talking about just black fellas today or First Nation peoples w … [Read more...]
Monday Morning Muse – One For My Homegirls Out There
December 19, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Notice the picture? Get filming!Oh - and this? THIS is the most amazing blog-post on Bigfoot I've ever read. Seriously. Go check it out: Sasquatch watchers following Bigfoot blogs for the latest news on their favorite subject - "New on this scene in the last few years is the community of Bigfoot bloggers... "This blog-post is for certain relatives of the female persuasion who ALL. Have. Birthdays. this time of the year. Yeesh.I am putting a dash of tomato sauce on a slice of toast, k … [Read more...]
Infographic: The Case For Girls And How Advertising Could Help
December 19, 2011 by 2 Comments
I like posting these; there's been a few that have caught my eye in the past as a "clever idea" (certainly the one on the great vaccination debate - and who can go past XKCD's laborious efforts to get across complex topics like the economy visually?)This one, however, has had an interesting impact (note - click to embiggen):"The response to Fast Company's recent feature story, "The Case for Girls," has been incredible. First, digital agency AKQA's mock ad campaign became a real-life call to … [Read more...]
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