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Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture and faith from the Antipodes.

Archive for April, 2009

Gallipoli: The First Day – 3D Interactive Site

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

One of the things I teach is a spirituality course that includes a significant multi-week module on spirituality and peace-making. As part of that, the students look at how Anzac Day functions as a spiritual or religious motif in NZ society (past and present), and whether one could derive an Anzac theology from the media presentations and other messages around that day.

As part of that I’m always looking for new resources to add for students. This interactive site from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation definitely looks worth adding to that list.

See Gallipoli: The First Day – 3D Interactive Site | Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Cuddly robots?

Monday, April 27th, 2009

I’m thinking it looks too much like ALF, but an interesting application in therapeutic robots for children.

See Cuddly robot helps sick kids

Moving objects with your mind

Monday, April 27th, 2009

Sentient Developments: Moving objects with your mind has a video clip of one of the new range of toys that use a wearable interface that ‘reads’ your brain’s activity to control physical objects.

Susan Boyle: Judged by Beauty

Saturday, April 25th, 2009

A guest post over at “Per Crucem ad Lucem” by Bruce Hamill raises some good points about all the noise about Susan Boyle and what that says about our own judgmentalism. See Susan Boyle: Judged by Beauty

World Builder – short film

Monday, April 20th, 2009

I thought this was very good – a virtual reality love story.

See YouTube – World Builder

See also YouTube – World Builder (high quality)

Similar in some ways to Grek Pak’s Robot Stories.

Random links from the last couple of weeks

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

Science & Religion Today: Do Kids Have Different Virtual Morals?

Science & Religion Today: Is Neuroscience the Next Culture War Front?

Youth Survey: Teens lose faith in droves – Canada – Macleans.ca

Slashing through the Information Jungle: The Cyborg story

Why good television shows get cancelled

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

Interesting post on why some TV shows get cancelled. Written predominantly about US shows, I think the point about allowing new viewer to jump in to a show at a later point is a good one. Shows with story arcs that build on each episode allow character and plot development, but do hinder picking up a show later on.

See in the open space: God & culture: Why good television shows get cancelled.

Online religion at Easter interview

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

Radio interview on Radio NZ National on online religion at Easter went pretty much okay – apart from a glitch at the end when I ended up headphone problems that threw me a bit. Sorted it out by taking them off after about 10-20 seconds of confusion. All part of the learning experience.

You can catch the audio in it’s default format from Radio New Zealand National : Programmes A-Z : Easter Monday

Podcast link is: http://www.radionz.co.nz/podcasts/easter.rss

MP3 link here: http://podcast.radionz.co.nz/emm/emm-20090413-1140-Dr_Stephen_Garner-048.mp3
WMA link here: http://www.radionz.co.nz/__data/assets/audio_item/0006/1917294/emm-20090413-1140-Dr_Stephen_Garner-wmbr.asx

The article they refer to in the interview is: Stephen Garner: Spreading the word in cyberspace – Religion and beliefs – NZ Herald News

Religiousity in NZ

Friday, April 10th, 2009

Interesting interview on Breakfast programme yesterday with Peter Lineham on the state of religious belief and practice in NZ.

See Breakfast: Thursday April 9 | BREAKFAST

Monopoly Killer: Perfect German Board Game Redefines Genre

Monday, April 6th, 2009

Settlers of Catan is one of the board games we have played on and off for that past 10 years or so. The kids like it too – especially the Cities and Knights expansions. Here’s a recent write up on the history of the game: Monopoly Killer: Perfect German Board Game Redefines Genre.

We’re on the lookout for the board game for 2009 for us all to play. Any suggestions?