| steveisgood | ||
| Name: | Steve Thoms | |
| Online Handle: | steveisgood | |
| Date of Birth: | May 6, 1979 | |
| Location: | Peterborough, Ontario | |
| Website: | http://steveisgood.livejournal.com/ | |
| Occupation: | Student | |
| Favourite SGU Panelist: | That's almost an unfair question. But Steve | |
| Favorite Interviewee: | Phil Plait, narrowly | |
| Favourite Scientific Topic: | Cosmology, Evolutionary Biology | |
| Most disliked Pseudoscience: | Astrology, and all manner of 'psychics' | |
| Most disliked true-believer: | Sylvia Browne, and the douchebags who made Loose Change | |
| Best SGU quote: | "Yes, lets keep talking about my bloody vagina" --Rebecca | |
| Best Skeptical/Science Website: | http://skepdic.com/ | |
| Best Science News Website: | http://www.sciam.com/ | |
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| Likes: | Genghis (my cat), sailing on tall-ships, the War of 1812, stand-up comedy, Canada, Ireland, my guitars and piano, and pissing off post-modernists | |
| Dislikes: | Post-modernism, religion, the pro-life movement, people with no sense of humour (its the canadian spelling!). | |
| Favourite Food(s): | Chicken pot-pie, and all things-pasta | |
| Favourite Book(s): | Demon-Haunted World, The Hitchhiker\'s Guide to the Galaxy, The Lord of the Rings, Don Quixote, Slaughterhouse Five, Cat\'s Cradle, Hocus Pocus, God is not Great |
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| Favourite Movie(s): | Lord of the Rings, L.A. Confidential, The Godfather, Bullworth, The Matrix, Star Wars 3-6, Indiana Jones, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Modern Times | |
| Favourite TV Show(s): | Arrested Development, Futurama, Home Movies, Southpark, Mythbusters, Bullshit!, The Simpsons, The Office (both versions) | |
| Favourite Music: | Eric Clapton, Tom Waits, The Beatles, Robert Johnson, B.B. King, We Are Scientists | |
| Drink/Smoke: | Ale and Irish Whisky / Cigars once a month | |
| Other Podcasts you Listen to: | SModcast, SGU 5x5, and occasionally Real Time with Bill Mahar | |
| Dumbest Thing you've ever heard: | "In the begining, God created the heavens and the earth" |
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| What would you like to accomplish before you die: | Publish a book | |
| About me: | I'm the most polite and well-intentioned loudmouth you'll ever meet. I can't stand all things post-modernist, and have been nearly academically lynched because of it. In short, I'm a hero. I'm Jesus and Batman. No I'm not. I'm a life-long musician, reader, writer, and all around funny-guy. I have a college diploma in Recorded Music production, and will very soon have a B.A. in Political Studies and History. I also spent 5 years in middle-managment in the business community: 5 years which I'll never get back....even though I probably would have spent them playing playstation anyway. Scientifically, I'm weak. My background is in political theory and history. Thankfully, the Skeptic community, and this podcast in particular, have provided me with an unfounded growth in scientific literacy, and appreciation for the scientific method. |
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| Anything Else: | My science may be weak, but my politics is strong. Hopefully I can enlighten my fellow scholars who are terrified of the Scientific method to adopt a more naturalist stance when developing policy and theories. I've bitched alot about post-modernism, but I truly believe it is a danger to political theory, and by extention, the social sciences at large (which are also succumbing to this academic navel-gazing)....My academic goals reflect a naturalist/evidentialist outlook, and hopefully I can get those in the humanities to stop being afraid of science, and to get scientists to stop hating the humanities. | |