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
• 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

• new philosopher print and online philosophy mag
• philosophy bites podcasts
• talking philosophy

Recent Posts

• nationalism, memes and the ANZAC legend
• local councils, Australia Day and federal bullying
• electric vehicles in Australia, a sad indictment
• Face it, same-sex marriage law will affect the religious freedom to discriminate
• on the explosion of battery research – part two, a bitsy presentation

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