the new ussr illustrated

welcome to the Urbane Society for Skeptical Romantics, where pretentiousness is as common as muck

a. ussr podcasts

• pod 1 aboriginal genome, papal fallacies, bonobos
• pod 2 Hawking’s birthday, longevity research, nationalism, Stendhal
• pod 3 Australian census 2011, religious belief here and elsewhere

b. generally interesting

• butterflies and wheels hardline incompatibilism, critique of religion
• crooked timber
• respectful insolence
• three quarks daily
• why evolution is true

c. mainly scientific

• bad astronomy
• I fucking love science fucking great stuff
• john hawks weblog anthropology, palaeontology
• neurologica
• not exactly rocket science
• panda's thumb life sciences mainly, anti-creationism
• pharyngula science crusader
• real climate climate science stuff
• riaus blog
• science-based medicine medicins sans mysteres

d. mainly sceptical

• bad science
• neuroskeptic
• skepchick current stuff to be sceptical about
• skepticblog
• the skeptics guide to the universe

e. local (well, Australian at least)

• hoyden about town
• token skeptic

e. philosophical

• evolutionblog philosophy, incompatibilism, and some maths
• new philosopher print and online philosophy mag
• philosophy bites podcasts
• talking philosophy

Recent Posts

• a smart ploy, with serious overtones for gender equality
• Is Donald Trump a great businessman?
• how evolution was proved to be true
• some more stuff we’ve learned about vaccines
• the little dictator and his acolyte

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