[ 26 September, 2009; 11:45 am to 12:30 pm. ] I’ve booked me tickets (as a posh pirate might say) for me trip to Wellington; Skeptics Conference 2009 here I come! Given the exclamation mark, a ‘thing’ I hardly like to employ in scribblings such as these (my pirate grammar is interfering with me normal speaky-writey transcription) it seems timely to post some more information [...]
Entries from August 24th, 2009
The Slippery Slope of Conspiracy Theories – Skeptics 2009
August 24th, 2009 2 Comments
Tags: Conference · Skeptic
The Birth Certificate – Dentith Files (95bFM)
August 23rd, 2009 No Comments
Today I told half the population that I hated them.
And I do.
I also spoke on the Conspiracy Theories surrounding Barack Obama’s birth certificate, an issue José and I had previously explored a while back. New developments, new thoughts and a lot of cultural criticism of America’s “left.”
You can listen to it here.
Tags: Radio
Five trivial items of notes in re my thesis
August 9th, 2009 12 Comments
1. On Friday, after using yet another example culled from the death of Julius Caesar, I changed the title (temporarily) of the thesis to “A thesis on the Death of Julius Caesar, plus occasional musings about the Epistemology of Conspiracy Theories.”
2. Half my footnotes are mere reminders to myself to make sure the thesis cross [...]
Tags: Thesis Writing
Tumblr
August 7th, 2009 No Comments
I now have a Tumblr account. It’s basically just links and suchlike that I don’t want to clutter the blog up with; I shan’t be using it for substantive content.
If you want to see what it is I’m hoarding, go here.
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Post-mortem, sort of…
August 6th, 2009 No Comments
Yesterday (all my troubles seemed so far away…) saw me present the first draft of ‘The Slippery Slope of Conspiracy Theories’ to the Department of Philosophy. It was only the second time I had performed it live, with a preview to a very select audience the night before (the audience, numbering one, is probably the [...]
