I was recently interviewed by Dale Basler and Brian Bartel from Lab Out Loud, a podcast for the National Science Teachers Association, and it’s now online. I was a member of NSTA for several years back when I was doing education workshops at Sonoma State University. They do great work for teachers across the country, equipping them with the science they need to educate students, so I was really happy to do the interview.
We talked about eggs and the equinox, my first and second books, and spent most of our time talking about the need for skepticism, especially in the classroom. I suggest going to their site and taking a look around, or you can download the interview MP3 directly.
Turns out they had a warmup interview with someone else as a prelude, an apertif if you will, for mine, too. Think of it as a calamari appetizer.
March 17th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
We talked about eggs and the equinox
I can see this is going to end up as one of those myths that’s kept alive by being debunked. I’d never heard of it until I read your book, and no doubt in 20 or so years when senility sets in, I’ll remember the myth but not that it’s false.
March 17th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
Another nice interview BA.
They mentioned the large hadron collider that is about to be turned on that will create a black hole that will drop to the centre of the earth and kill us all…
As a matter of interest if something like this did happen how long would we have and would we have any idea or indication that something is happening (death from below)?