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Token Skeptic #83 - On Books – The Third Embiggen Book Review Show
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:07:25
Publish Date: 2011-10-19 07:02:00
Description: This Saturday - SkeptiCamp Melbourne! It's all happening! Token Skeptic is one of the sponsors and they'll be getting a special video at the event. So, a comedian, a politician and a secular author walk into a bookstore… Thursday, 20th October, 6-7.30pm at the Embiggen Bookstore, 97-203 Lt Lonsdale St, Melbourne - if you’re one of the people who have been keeping an eye on the Ron Williams high-court challenge regarding federal funding for the chaplaincy program, then this is a lecture and book-launch that you won’t want to miss. Contempt of Court: Unofficial Voices from the DOGS Australian High Court Case, 1981. Not only is it a launch featuring the book’s author Jean Ely – popular Melbourne comedian Ron Quantock, activist and former politician Joan Coxsedge and Max Wallace, author and 2010 Global Atheist Convention presenter and Director of the Australia New Zealand National Secular Association will be there too. In addition, we talk about other great new releases - Stephen Pinker's The Better Angels Of Our Nature, Daniel Loxton's Ankylosaur Attack!, Richard Dawkins' The Magic of Reality and how Michael McRae's book Tribal Scientist: Brains, Beliefs and Bad Ideas will soon be published in the US by Prometheus Books. Head to the official site at http://embiggenbooks.com. The Token Skeptic Blog – now on FreeThought Blogs, one of the most popular online Atheist blogging networks, started by Ed Brayton and PZ Myers. http://freethoughtblogs.com/tokenskeptic. This show is available on Zune, mp3 via Libsyn or iTunes. Visit www.tokenskeptic.org – and I’d love to get your feedback at tokenskeptic@gmail.com. Theme songs are “P&P” by Derek K Miller of www.penmachine.com and “Leap Second” by Milton Mermikides, of  www.miltonmermikides.com. Please considering supporting the show via visiting Tokenskeptic.
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