If you’re around Melbourne Uni this lunchtime, you should head over to the Medley Theatre (Redmond Barry building) at 1pm. The Secular Society is screening the first half of Judgement Day: Intelligent Design On Trial, a documentary about the Dover trial.
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Don’t like gay marriage? These guys and girls have a message for you: I reckon that’s fair enough. If you want to show your support for this initiative, check out the FCKH8 website. There, you can buy one of those snazzy shirts they’re wearing in the video and donate to gay marriage initiatives at the [...]
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Reports have come in now that the mathematical giant Benoit Mandelbrot has died at age 85 after a prolonged battle with pancreatic cancer. In launching what was basically an entirely new field of study (fractals), Mandelbrot had a distinction that very few mathematicians enjoy — and to his benefit he lived long enough to see [...]
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It’s a bit of a late notice, but for a good 40 minutes still a bunch of my friends have taken over a science radio show! They’re doing a bang up job, so get to it!
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Oh, Jon Ronson you wacky man. As if writing a book on the US Army’s exploration of New Age and psychic warfare wasn’t enough, now you’ve gone and upped the ante once again: by interviewing Insane Clown Posse. As someone who didn’t really know much about ICP before the release of their much panned anti-science [...]
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Every day, more touching stories roll in to Dan Savage’s It Gets Better YouTube channel; LGBT adults reaching out to LGBT youths to let them know that despite the troubles they may face in school, life is worth living. Just a few days ago, the following speech was given to Fort Worth City Council (that’s in [...]
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Aren’t those pesky Gnu atheists just so darn mean? All that book writing and public speaking — and now, Jason Rosenhouse has fired another volley from the trenches at Chris Mooney and Josh Rosenau! Why, he doesn’t even have the decency to shut up and stay quiet when criticised: ain’t that just the worst?
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Well — the end of semester is approaching fast, and with it the end of the MUMS Friday Events for 2010. This week is the second last seminar for the year, with Norm Do this week, followed by Paul Pearce next week and a trivia night the week after. I know about as much as [...]
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Holy crap. My understanding is that hecklers are the bane of any comedian’s existence — even if the audience is with you up to that point, a heckler can break your momentum and turn the rest of the show into a bad case of the struggles. Not so, apparently, if you’re Jamie Kilstein. If you’re [...]
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I’m not saying anything specifically…but if you keep an eye on this page you might be in for a treat later on today.
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