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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Meryl Dorey, President of the Australian Vaccination Network, recently published a media release in which she decries the media’s “witchhunt” of the AVN. Recent investigations of the AVN by multiple branches of the New South Wales government, the reports and results of those investigations, various media interviews with Meryl Dorey, quotes from Dorey, and other factual […]
Normally I’m not a fan of tracking back through the archives of blogs that I follow, but I’m prepared to make a big exception with The Panda’s Thumb, a group blog focused on evolutionary biology and its cultural and religious detractors. In a way it’s like Homologous Legs, except older, better and the people who […]
Casey Luskin, the Discovery Institute writer/lackey, thinks that a certain picture of Charles Darwin published in Nature last year reminds him of a certain special someone: … the back page of the packet shows a picture of a smiling young Darwin with animals flocking about him (lizards, birds, monkeys, flowers, sponges, turtles, etc.), much like the […]
A lot of talk goes back and forth on science and skepticism blogs about the importance of science education and communication. Many popular books have been written on maths and physics (for those who are interested, Big Bang and Fermat’s Enigma by Simon Singh are both brilliant), but there are very few popular articles out […]
In this opinion piece, published in The Age on March 9, 2010, Australian Greens Senator Scott Ludlam asserts that “Nuclear (energy) does not have the answers we need”. There’s quite a bit in this piece that I don’t consider to be well informed, accurate and unbiased — so I thought I would take a bit of a […]
I go to a small semi-private school in Victoria, a Christian school, supposedly non-denominational. Every fortnight we have a compulsory chapel service that runs for 45mins. Today we had Dr. Mark Harwood of creation.com come and lecture us on how the world was created. The whole thing was utterly pathetic, for 4 main reasons: 1. Yes […]
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 […]
