What an awesome line-up of speakers, I’m working on a plan to get to this Wellington event as soon as I hit Publish on this post. In some ways it will be a reprise of The Amazing Meeting Australia 2010 (Sydney) where I met Kylie Sturgess and heard
This sounds interesting. I hope to get to to his inaugural lecture as found Richard’s Auckland Skeptics in the Pub cosmology talk (October 2011) and the discussion after really interesting. Although my Physics education ended at High School, so probably won’t understand much, i still enjoy learning what
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A very Skeptical Month! Skeptember - Auckland Skeptics in the Pub (Auckland) – Details and RSVP at Meetup Join us for Skeptember where there will be drinks, discussion and fun. Our speaker this month Associate Professor Andrew Shelling from the University of Auckland. He will be here to talk to us about
Congratulations to Richard Saunders & co on achieving the two hundredth episode. The Skeptic Zone Podcast - The Podcast from Australia for Science and Reason. The Skeptic Zone #200 - 18.August.2012 I have enjoyed listening, mostly while walking the dog, since I discovered it back in 2010. My most memorable
Siouxsie Wiles is a microbiologist and bioluminescence enthusiast who heads up the Bioluminescent Superbugs Group at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. I know her through the Auckland Skeptics in the Pub Meetup Group. BSG make bacteria that glow in the dark to better understand how to prevent and fight
It was great to find Odd Todd on Twitter last night. Had been a while since I visited his site and I did not realise he was tweeting. Little did I know it would also help cure Alfie’s recent annoying behaviour of barking, seemingly at nothing, from about 19:
A great reference to test your own, or others, conclusions: Thou shalt not commit logical fallacies - www.yourlogicalfallacyis.com A logical fallacy is usually what has happened when someone is wrong about something. It's a flaw in reasoning. They're like tricks or illusions of thought, and
This started as a comment on a blog post but got a bit long and involved. I’m not much of an expert on dieting as have only managed my own weight without formal dieting. I’m also far from perfect but perhaps lucky in finding lots of potentially fattening
Sometime over the holiday break, one of those frequent rubbish days of a summer not to remember, I stumbled upon the documentary film ‘Being Elmo’ on a Sky channel. It was a fascinating look at Kevin Clash's life and career to as the man behind Elmo. Although released
When I first understood this (probably thanks to Isaac Asimov’s books or Carl Sagan’s Cosmos) I thought it was amazing. This presentation is beautiful: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D05ej8u-gU&w=640&h=360] via RichardDawkins.net UPDATE 2012-03-16: And here
Although this was first broadcast in 2007 I just discovered it thanks to a recent replay. I love Dr Karl's podcasts on ABC Triple J & BBC 5 Live and saw his awesome presentation at TAMOZ 2010. This conversation is remarkable for his parents story, as much as