In which one of my students looks at some of the more (in)famous followers of astrology and why they believe in the foolishness therein.
Category Skepticism
In which one of my students examines the ancient art of palm reading, and finds it wanting.
In which I outline some course assignments that will ensure lots of excellent reading over the next few months here on GPS.
In which I discuss what scientific literacy should look like in the United States of the 21st century.
In which I review a wonderful addition to any cryptozoological skeptic or believer’s bookshelf.
In which I review Mark Edward’s book, and find it a bit lacking from a skeptical point of view.
I don’t think that I’ve mentioned it before on the blog, but I am something of an amateur photographer. I…
As hopefully all of you know, the James Randi Educational Foundation put on their annual conference this past week, The Amazing Meeting (TAM). I was privileged to be able to attend this year as a “first TAMmer” (there were buttons if it was your first time, which I thought was great ) in a couple of different capacities (which I’ll get to in a minute). I didn’t have a chance to blog any during the weekend, but I did put up quite a few tweets under the #TAM2013 hashtag, which was very active (and I recommend going and scrolling through them to get a general feel for the conference).
If you are a frequent reader of the Huffington Post, you are probably quite familiar with TAM speaker Cara Santa Maria. She rose to renown as a science writer for HuffPo, where she produced the well-received series “Talk Nerdy to Me” and held the post of Senior Science Correspondent until she left in April 2013. Since then, Cara has become a host on the Young Turks network as well as co-hosting a series on The Weather Channel called Hacking the Planet. She also runs a very active Twitter account.
Year in and year out, The Amazing Meeting (TAM) hosts one of the most outstanding group of speakers and workshops of any conference related to scientific skepticism. This year is no exception, and one of the speakers I am most excited to hear (and hopefully meet in person) is Susan Jacoby.