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Name: |
Lee Graham |
| Online Handle: |
stellaralchemy |
| Date of Birth: |
October 11, 1974 |
| Location: |
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| Website: |
http://www.stellaralchemy.com/lee |
| Occupation: |
Student |
| Favourite SGU Panelist: |
Robert |
| Favorite Interviewee: |
Adam Savage |
| Favourite Scientific Topic: |
Evolutionary Biology |
| Most disliked Pseudoscience: |
Intelligent Design (oh, and homeopathy - URGH!) |
| Most disliked true-believer: |
Not sure. Either Kent Hovind or Ann Coulter. |
| Best SGU quote: |
"Are you holding a penis?" -- Rebecca to Perry |
| Best Skeptical/Science Website: |
http://www.randi.org |
| Best Science News Website: |
http://www.sciencefriday.com |
| Favourite Blog: |
http://www.badastronomy.com |
| Likes: |
A good rigorous science experiment, an elegant mathematical proof, horchata, rainstorms and lightning, all the really compelling evidence for evolution, especially genetic, computer programming, first person shooters, artificial life, artificial intelligence, genetic algorithms, mountain biking in the woods, rock climbing, skepticism, atheism |
| Dislikes: |
Olives (those things are poison I tell you!), the low level of public scientific literacy, the high level of public gullibility, software engineering (b-o-r-i-n-g!), country music, jogging |
| Favourite Food(s): |
Donair pizza |
| Favourite Book(s): |
Goedel Escher Bach by Douglas Hofstadter |
| Favourite Movie(s): |
The Matrix |
| Favourite TV Show(s): |
Mythbusters, BBC's Horizon, Bullshit |
| Favourite Music: |
Techno (especially if it employs an electronic voice), classical (especially Mozart, especially his operas), Mike Oldfield |
| Drink/Smoke: |
Neither |
| Other Podcasts you Listen to: |
Point of Inquiry, Skepticality, Evolution 101 |
| Dumbest Thing you've ever heard: |
"It has been established beyond doubt that the placebo-controlled, randomized controlled trial is not a fitting research tool with which to test homeopathy" -- spokeswoman for The Society of Homeopaths |
| What would you like to accomplish before you die: |
A lot. Living to see intelligent machines would be nice, though not likely. |
| About me: |
I was born in Smiths Falls, Ontario. I went to high school in Perth, Ontario and spent a year in Nienburg, Germany on exchange in high school. I'm currently working toward my PhD in Computer Science at Carleton University, focusing on Artificial Intelligence, specifically: Evolutionary Computing. I consider myself to be a skeptic. I'm an atheist. I run stellaralchemy.com. I presented my irreducible complexity evolver web applet at TAM5 in Vegas (holy cow!). I teach first and second year computer science courses at the university. I also teach a one-week enrichment mini-course for high school students on skepticism, pseudoscience, and critical thinking. |
| Anything Else: |
SGU is my absolute favorite podcast. I enjoy listening to it during my long bus commutes to and from campus. |
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