National Science Week is unique because it is a national celebration of science; the joy of science, the usefulness of science, the excitement and the mystery of science. Science is so important in our lives and that’s especially true in Australia. It’s important therefore that we understand how science interacts in our lives because more […]
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Last year as part of National Science Week, the Young Australian Skeptics helped distribute over 2,000 Science Mini-Zine’s across Melbourne. This year, National Science Week are calling on you to design your own Science Mini-Zine, to help promote and advance science with your own creative spin! If you’re not familiar with the campaign, allow me to […]
Creation, a new bio-pic about Charles Darwin, is now showing in cinemas across Australia. To celebrate, a few screening times are listed below for YAS readers to go along to. Thanks to those who put up their hands to host a screening in their city! PERTH: Cinema: Windsor Theatre (Nedlands Nova) Session Time: 6:30pm (meet at […]
Whether you like it or not, Australia got a new Prime Minister yesterday — and climate change is a big part of the reason why. Julia Gillard, from the seat of Lalor in Melbourne’s West, is now Australia’s first female Prime Minister, after Kevin Rudd took a tumble in the polls in the last few months. Rudd was undermined […]
Writing in the Herald Sun, former Geelong football star Gary Ablett Sr. — the guy who provided Heroin and other drugs to a 19-year old girl — is concerned about “a very serious decline in morals and values in our community.” Did I also mention the girl subsequently died in his hotel room of an overdose? I digress. So why […]
There she is on Page 2 (19/3/10): ON MONDAY, The Age reported that Richard Dawkins referred to Pope Benedict XVI as “Pope Nazi”. The reference was to Pope Pius XII. The mistake was made by the reporter.
Reporting on the 2010 Global Atheist Convention, Fairfax journalists Barney Zwartz & Jacqueline Maley, in their respective articles “Dawkins delivers the sermon they came to hear” (The Age, 15/3/10) and “Dawkins derides sainthood as Pythonesque” (SHM, 15/3/10) both misquoted evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, which has resulted in a misunderstanding being propagated throughout the entire Australian […]
… no wait! That’s Richard Hughes and Jack Scanlan from The Pseudo Scientists podcast, and regular contributors to the Young Australian Skeptics blog. They attended the University of Melbourne Secular Society’s recent “Flying Spaghetti Monster Mixer” (come dressed as your favourite deity or religious figure).
