Steve Davis
An library of skeptical enquiry
The most attractive thing I find about being part of the skeptical movement, is the unquenchable sense of curiosity that inspires skeptics to understand the ‘reason’ behind various claims and beliefs. I am also greatly attracted by the focus on…
Online Insights on FIVEaa Sunday January 6 2013
Another year lies ahead of us, so tonight’s websites are all destined, so to speak, to guide us through this year with aplomb. We will look at how to get organised from a ‘housewife’s’ perspective, how to sort good science…
Online Insights on FIVEaa Sunday December 2 2012
To sleep, perchance to dream. Yes, this month’s Online Insights on FIVEaa with Sean Perry and Steve Davis begins with dreams and then moves into shoes that are ‘lost proof’, we then ponder the pests of Xmas before finishing with…
Online Insights on FIVEaa Sunday November 4 2012
We do a little IT trick to spread your wireless connection farther, duck our heads, and then get ready for a feast of the revolting and the delicious. Waiter, waiter, there’s a fly in my food This weekend has been…
Online Insights on FIVEaa Sunday October 7 2012
This month we’ll go out of this world, contemplate leaving this world, explore being cartoon characters, and investigate just how much luck ‘lucky people’ have. Go Animate Go Animate is a cartoon-making service with plenty of free options and some…
Online Insights on FIVEaa Sunday September 2 2012
Tonight on Online Insights we commemorate the passing of Neil Armstrong by looking at a great moon myth, look at another use of human technology – the nuclear bomb, look deeply into the Facebook mirror and then finish with a…
Online Insights on FIVEaa Sunday August 5 2012
Amid all the Olympics coverage, we will persevere with some non-Olympics material again this month, including sites that can capture childhood in a novel way, teach you how to have gourmet coffee in the middle of nowhere, raise awareness about…
Online Insights on FIVEaa Sunday July 8 2012
This month on online insights we look at latest detailed statistics on who is using social media in Australia, privacy on social media demonstrated a new way, remind you of a computer test you must run tonight, and we’ll finish…
Global Social Media Day 2012: Social Media Relationships
On Social Media Day 2012, Adrian Morgan and I (Steve Davis), sat down over some coffee and whiskey to think about social media and its impact on relationships. We go back a long way as friends but these days our…
Online Insights on FIVEaa Sunday June 3 2012
This month on Online Insights, we teach kids to play with electricity, see some guys who play life or death with electricity, investigate a tool perfect for terrorists and anxious loved ones, and we investigate that food in your fridge…