Trying to Stay Sane: How to Argue on the Internet
The Internet has revolutionised the way we communicate, right? It’s brought us all together and enables instantaneous knowledge transfer between people who would otherwise never meet? Well, on paper,...
View ArticleScience, Coffee and Young People: The Birth of the Unfiltered Thoughts Podcast
We at the Young Australian Skeptics have a new podcast! Okay, so it’s not entirely new — episodes of Unfiltered Thoughts had been a part of The Pseudoscientists since last October — but now it has its...
View ArticleQuestion of the Week: Children and Imaginary Beings
Every week we ask a question of our audience to stimulate discussion and critical thinking about an issue or topic relating to science, skepticism, technology or religion. Our favourite comments are...
View ArticleWaxing Drosophilosophical: Why I Study Fruit Flies
Whenever I tell someone the focus of my research is flies, a strange look usually passes across their face. “No no,” I hastily add, “not the big ones you’re probably thinking about — fruit flies. Tiny...
View ArticleQuestion of the Week: Does Skepticism Have an Image Problem?
Every week we ask a question of our audience to stimulate discussion and critical thinking about an issue or topic relating to science, skepticism, technology or religion. Our favourite comments are...
View ArticleQuestion of the Week: Proving/Disproving the Existence of God
Every week we ask a question of our audience to stimulate discussion and critical thinking about an issue or topic relating to science, skepticism, technology or religion. Our favourite comments are...
View ArticleQuestion of the Week: Unnecessary Science Funding
Every week we ask a question of our audience to stimulate discussion and critical thinking about an issue or topic relating to science, skepticism, technology or religion. Our favourite comments are...
View ArticleQuestion of the Week: The Challenge for Australian Skepticism
Every week we ask a question of our audience to stimulate discussion and critical thinking about an issue or topic relating to science, skepticism, technology or religion. Our favourite comments are...
View ArticleTwo is Usually Better Than One: The Importance of Duplication in Biology
Take me down to Duplication City, where the grass is tetraploid and girls are all having twins… Biology revolves around duplication: this is impossible to deny. Well, you could try to deny it, but then...
View ArticleQuestion of the Week: Uploading Your Consciousness to the Internet
Every week we ask a question of our audience to stimulate discussion and critical thinking about an issue or topic relating to science, skepticism, technology or religion. Our favourite comments are...
View ArticleAn Introduction to Perspectives on Australian Skepticism
Perspectives is a series of collections of articles highlighting the diversity of opinions, ideas and — yes — perspectives young people in Australia have about complex, serious and/or light-hearted...
View ArticleQuestion of the Week: Pseudoscientific Wishful Thinking
Every week we ask a question of our readers, to stimulate discussion and critical thinking about an issue or topic relating to science, skepticism, technology or religion. Our favourite comments are...
View ArticleQuestion of the Week: Favourite Podcast Moments (Episodes 1–100)
Every week we ask a question of our readers, to stimulate discussion and critical thinking about an issue or topic relating to science, skepticism, technology or religion. Our favourite comments are...
View ArticlePerspectives on Climate Change: An Introduction
This is really two introductions: one to a collection of articles over the next month about climate change, and another to the very concept of the Perspectives series. As I always say, “if you can do...
View ArticleQuestion of the Week: Scientifically Unrealistic Superheroes
Every week we ask a question of our readers, to stimulate discussion and critical thinking about an issue or topic relating to science, skepticism, technology or religion. Our favourite comments are...
View ArticleQuestion of the Week: Favourite Thought Experiments
Every week we ask a question of our readers, to stimulate discussion and critical thinking about an issue or topic relating to science, skepticism, technology or religion. Our favourite comments are...
View ArticleQuestion of the Week: Best Science Jokes
Every week we ask a question of our readers, to stimulate discussion and critical thinking about an issue or topic relating to science, skepticism, technology or religion. Our favourite comments are...
View ArticleQuestion of the Week: Science Under a New Parliament
Every week we ask a question of our readers, to stimulate discussion and critical thinking about an issue or topic relating to science, skepticism, technology or religion. Our favourite points are...
View ArticleQuestion of the Week: What If There Were A Conspiracy?
Every week we ask a question of our readers, to stimulate discussion and critical thinking about an issue or topic relating to science, skepticism, technology or religion. Our favourite points are...
View ArticleQuestion of the Week: Testing Psychic Powers
Every week we ask a question of our readers, to stimulate discussion and critical thinking about an issue or topic relating to science, skepticism, technology or religion. Our favourite points are...
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