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		<title>Gaming: Zombie Edition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re very much a gamer family. We play games at home.  We play games on holiday.  We play games at our friends&#8217; houses. Video.  Board. Card. Yournameit weplayit. It an obsession, to a point and we&#8217;ll play pretty much anything. (Although, I will readily admit that my patience for repeated sessions of Candyland (TM) with The Girl is wearing thinner with each passing week.)
Of course, my current state of self-employ means I&#8217;ve needed to be a little more frugal on new acquisitions.  But just recently, I was particularly excited: an ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.skepdad.ca/2010/gaming-zombie-edition/</link>
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		<title>LINK // PZ on FGM</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The numbers quoted are disturbing&#8230;
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/scienceblogs/pharyngula/~3/0591D5o0Y5I/hey_uk_how_do_you_reconcile_th.php 
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		<link>http://www.skepdad.ca/2010/link-pz-on-fgm/</link>
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		<title>Sprayin&#8217; for Monsters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A likely familiar tune, but bedtime at our house is borderline ritualism: Bath.  Brush teeth.  Story. Shine the flashlight on the ceiling to make the the glow stars light. Song. Some idle talking about the day past.  At least three drinks of water.  And a small peppering of parental nudges to &#8220;get back into bed!&#8221;
Ritualism, and in that order.
Lately, and this evening being no exception, we&#8217;ve been adding the list.  I&#8217;ve been hearing the faint voice summoning me from down the hall, a tired little ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.skepdad.ca/2010/sprayin-for-monsters/</link>
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		<title>on… new topics?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sorry, about that.  I&#8217;m retooling the blog and spending some time rethinking, rejigging, and retweaking what I write about.  This post is just a placeholder to let you know you haven&#8217;t clicked in the wrong place&#8230; I just haven&#8217;t written anything here yet.  
(Or, at least I haven&#8217;t posted here yet.)
But it is coming.  Really.
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		<title>Alberta SkeptiCamp 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is about live-bloggy as I get: As I write this, a great collective of local skeptics have gathered at the University of Alberta for our first skepticamp (more). I&#8217;ll update this post over the day with links and notes on what sessions (concurrent sessions are running) I&#8217;m attending (and presenting.)
If your here, say hi&#8230;
1100 AM - Twyla of www.stopjenny.com is presenting on the anti-anti-vaccination movement, the science of immunity and vaccines, and vaccine fallacies.
1130 AM &#8211; Panel on civility and skepticism, staring @skepticsean, Brent, Marc-Julien and Ryan. How not ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.skepdad.ca/2010/alberta-skepticamp-2010/</link>
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		<title>Camp Skepticism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My assertion, boy scout that I once was, stood firmly grounded in some quasi-idealistic notion of shivering in the deep woods, wrapped in a blanket eating a poorly cooked meal from a tin plate around a low fire and nursing a collection of bug bites and sore muscles acquired on the day-long trek from where we left the car and where we eventually pitched our tent. This, of course, was contrasted with current so-called camping experience of playing card games in a heated trailer, drinking microwaved beverages, and occasionally updating our Facebook status on our cell phone...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.skepdad.ca/2010/camp-skepticism/</link>
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		<title>Still a Skepdad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s start by saying its been a tough year. 
I returned home from The Amazing Meeting 2009 a year ago today with a new perspective on why I was doing this, on why I was hanging out my thoughts as the skepdad blogger. I had clarity, purpose, and a new, motivation to not only do this right, but to do it as right as I could. I was brimming with all sorts of fancy ideas about what that meant, and how to pursue it with a higher ideal.  But ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.skepdad.ca/2010/still-a-skepdad/</link>
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		<title>The Censor&#8217;s Dance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Any father extrapolating back to his own childhood and assuming a general, relative increase in availability over time, should have assumed that blocking, restricting, and demonizing said material was a futile pursuit.  What I can only presume then is that there was a meaning in the message that only years later -- as a parent myself -- begins to make sense. But how does one then rationally -- skeptically and logically -- apply a filter to the media (and by this I mean television, movies, radio, books, and web content) pouring in ever increasing volumes across the gaze of our kids?  And should we? I suppose the first question that must be explored is why might we need to filter?]]></description>
		<link>http://www.skepdad.ca/2010/the-censors-dance/</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Eat Your Toys</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have doubts that as parents we fall for this stuff as easily as the toy companies believe.  In some ways I'd suggest it's a game of don't-ask-don't-tell; We buy the toys because we think they are good toys.  Or -- more likely -- we buy the toys because our kids think they are good toys.  Sure, we read the product claims on the side, maybe react somewhere between a disbelieving laugh and approving nod, thinking 'well, what could it hurt...'  Sure. But then like every other aspect of skeptical bunk-busting, there ARE true believers, particularly when said claims go beyond vague promises of infant development.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.skepdad.ca/2010/dont-eat-your-toys/</link>
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		<title>Learning by Any Other Name</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As skeptical parents does it matter how we define education?  Or is it merely stating the obvious to suggest we just get on with the teaching our kids?  For we parents who seek a rational approach, perhaps in hopes of providing the most balanced and critical education for our kids, one that we can understand and have hope of contributing to as participant and co-educators, these differences of opinions -- differences of definition of what defines a good education -- are troubling.  If we can't agree on definition, then what hope do we have of moving onto the debate around context and purpose?]]></description>
		<link>http://www.skepdad.ca/2010/learning-by-any-other-name/</link>
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