My own blog, Homologous Legs, is currently hosting the 135th edition of the Carnival of the Godless blog carnival, featuring a delightful selection of godless posts from various excellent bloggers, including (but not limited to) the Digital Cuttlefish, Podblack Cat, Atheist Revolution, and Secularism Examiner. Check it out if you like good writing about religion […]
Archive for the ‘Jack Scanlan’ Category
There are many great webcomics that I regularly read, including Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, Hark! A Vagrant and Dinosaur Comics, but one of my absolute favourites is Dresden Codak — a comic about transhumanism and… well, awesome stuff like that.
Updates by the author, Aaron Diaz, are extremely irregular, due to the vast amounts of time required for each […]
This is a post I recently wrote for my miniblog, but the reaction it received (not necessarily just through blog comments) has lead me to put it up on the main blog — and here on the Young Australian Skeptics website — where it’s most visible. It deals with something that might be considered a bit controversial in the […]
In a shocking turn of events, Meryl Dorey, President of the Australian Vaccination Network for almost 17 years, has stepped down from her position leading the prominent vaccine-awareness group.
Citing reasons such as a lack of funds behind the AVN and the fact that her children have likely suffered due to her activism, Dorey broke the news via […]
I recently mentioned, on my blog, Dr. Granville Sewell, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Texas, El Paso, in relation to a new book of his, filled with essays about intelligent design and evolution, that was recently published by the Discovery Institute. Sewell is an intelligent design proponent/advocate, and due to his status as […]
It all started off, as the best things in life do, as a little joke. This is not how it is going to end however. We will succeed. We must. For the good of mankind, and also as a little warmup and pimpage for TAM Australia (Coming late November 2010).
I have started a […]
Intelligent design proponents, like those found at the Discovery Institute, love to claim that their intellectual weapon of choice, ID, has a basis in science and the scientific method. A prominent claim within this is that ID is falsifiable, just as all good (wait, no, just all) hypotheses must be in order to be scientific. […]
Most people aren’t climate scientists, so when it comes to information about anthropogenic global warming/climate change they’re in a bit of a sticky situation, especially on the Internet — how do I know what’s right and what’s wrong, and how do I make sense of the mountains of seemingly conflicting information on the subject?
David McCandless, a visual and […]
Richard Saunders let us use his FlipCam HD — win.
Dr Karl on a musical crusade against misinformation.
Woman Dies After Receiving Controversial Vaginal Treatment.
House M.D Inhaler Clip.
Tim Minchin’s Storm — a nine minute beat poem — will blow you away.
Also, in non-Briskepticon related news
PZ Myers takes aim at the Victorian Government and Rev. Tim Costello.
