The Curse Of The D20 – Interview With A Superstitious Dungeon Master #SSAWeek

Welcome to Hour Twenty of the Token Skeptic Sunday Sessions! DONATE HERE! There’s 24 posts for every hour of today, looking at issues involving secularism, skepticism, atheism, feminism, science, philosophy and more - in order to support and urge you to donate to SSAWeek2013 at SecularStudents.org. This is blogpost Twenty. This is an interview with an unnamed gamer, about superstitions and gamers. It was done at the first comic convention I ever attended overseas, called … [Read more...]

My Time At FreeThought Blogs – October 1st, 2011 To Now #FTBullies

Here's a tally of some of the things I did over this time: Presented at: The World Skeptics Congress, Berlin MC of the Global Atheist Convention ScienceRewired a few future gigs, such as a talk at UWA later this week on science podcasting.  Published: The Scope of Skepticism: Interviews, Essays and Observations from the Token Skeptic Podcast - book Skeptical Blog Anthology: The Young Australian Skeptics - book (With a TREMENDOUS amount of help; thanks to all involved, for both … [Read more...]

Token Skeptic Interview – Shelley Segal – Now Out! (And More Science Podcasting News)

Now out over on the Token Skeptic podcast site: Shelley Segal was brought up in a musical family, singing from the age of three and performing with her father’s wedding band from age eleven. She’s been performing her original music live for ten years and recording for four years and even moved to the UK for a production deal and recorded two albums there. Her first is An Atheist Album, which is a reflection on her world-view as an atheist, on religion and related themes, and on the first … [Read more...]

Berlin Congress And Marian Call Interview Out On The Skeptical Inquirer Site!

This is very cool - they've printed my more recent articles online! In the September/October 2012 edition, the magazine focused on arts and the intersection with skepticism - so here's a link with the interview with musician Marian Call: The first song that I ever heard from you was a live performance. I was at Dragon*Con and suddenly there was this person in the middle of the Parsec Awards performing on a typewriter. The song was “I’ll Still Be a Geek After No One Thinks It’s Chic,” … [Read more...]

Little Kitten – Alice Cooper And James Randi ‘Remembering Billion Dollar Babies’ – Dragon*Con, 2012

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The Skeptic’s Guide To Attending A Paranormal / Pseudoscientific Lecture

Update - check out Going off-track: A visit to the paranormal side of Dragon Con by Sharon Hill. It's late,  I'm awake and I haven't been blogging recently (unless you count YouTube video links, which I don't - unless I'm actually involved in the creation of them) - so, here's a little something that's been on my mind. In fact, there's a few things that have been on my mind about attending paranormal and / or pseudoscientific lectures, conferences, what-have-you. Essentially, this is my brief … [Read more...]

I’m Not An A+ (I’m Usually Quite Happy Being O+ Most Days)

Today was a good day and it's been of those days that had me sitting down in the ECU library, looking out at the rain and trying to figure out what exactly I want to do with my life. I had an interview today (yes, I know - here I am blogging about what I do and I wanted to take a break from blogging...) that really gave me some food for thought and I guess I'm at a bit of a loss as to if (and it's a huge if) something does happen as a result of that interview - do I want to make that … [Read more...]

Token Skeptic Videos – DragonCon Skeptic Track Day One – 2009

Part of the Token Skeptic Dragon*Con series - if you enjoy my films please consider doing three things - one, donate to the Abrupt Media group, who film and stream videos from the stage and provide the audio. Secondly, check out the audio from previous years that was kindly provided to me from the SkepTrack, that features on the Token Skeptic podcast. Finally - if you want to learn more about podcasting, promoting science and being a part of another great conference that I'll be at on the … [Read more...]

Token Skeptic Videos – Dragon*Con 2008 Continued

Part of the Token Skeptic Dragon*Con series - if you enjoy my films please consider doing three things - one, donate to the Abrupt Media group, who film and stream videos from the stage and provide the audio. Secondly, check out the audio from previous years that was kindly provided to me from the SkepTrack, that features on the Token Skeptic podcast. Finally - if you want to learn more about podcasting, promoting science and being a part of another great conference that I'll be at on the … [Read more...]

Token Skeptic Videos – Day One Continued – Dragon*Con 2008

Part of the Token Skeptic Dragon*Con series - if you enjoy my films please consider doing three things - one, donate to the Abrupt Media group, who film and stream videos from the stage and provide the audio. Secondly, check out the audio from previous years that was kindly provided to me from the SkepTrack, that features on the Token Skeptic podcast. Finally - if you want to learn more about podcasting, promoting science and being a part of another great conference that I'll be at on the … [Read more...]