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Karen Stollznow (born 12 August 1976) is an Australian-American writer, linguist, podcaster and skeptic. She is the Bad Language columnist for Skeptic magazine, and author of the books ''God Bless America: Strange and Unusual Religious Beliefs and Practices in the United States'', ''Haunting America'', and ''Language Myths, Mysteries and Magic''. ==Career== A student of linguistics and history at the University of New England in Armidale, New South Wales, she received First Class Honors in Linguistics, and went on to a PhD in the area of Lexical Semantics. She graduated with her doctorate in 2007.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=UNE Linguistics Postgraduates )〕 In 2004 she relocated to California to become a Visiting Student Researcher with the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2005 she became a Researcher for the Script Encoding Initiative, a joint project between the UC Berkeley Department of Linguistics, and the Unicode Consortium. From 1997-2009 Stollznow was a prominent investigator and writer for the Australian Skeptics and served as Editor of their magazine ''The Skeptic''〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=A Brief History of the Skeptic )〕〔 for which she also wrote many articles. She has also written for publications such as Australasian Science, Neucleus, Skeptical Inquirer and others. Since 2009 she has written the Naked Skeptic column for the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI).〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Special Articles — The Naked Skeptic, a column by Karen Stollznow )〕 In 2010 she began as the Bad Language columnist for Skeptic (U.S. magazine). She has been a host of the Skeptics Society's ''MonsterTalk'' podcast〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=About the Hosts of MonsterTalk )〕 since its beginning in 2009 and in 2010 she became a host of the Center for Inquiry's ''Point of Inquiry'' podcast as well.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=About Point of Inquiry )〕 In 2011 she presented a talk at the Colorado Springs SkeptiCamp on Making (Up) History,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=SkeptiCamp Colorado Springs 2011 )〕 and at the Denver/Boulder SkeptiCamp on Braco the Gazer.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=SkeptiCamp Denver/Boulder 2011 )〕 In 2012 she was a speaker at The Amazing Meeting in Las Vegas, giving a talk titled "Prediction and Language",〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.amazingmeeting.com/TAM2012/speakers )〕 and in 2013 giving a talk titled "What an Excellent Day for an Exorcism".〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.amazingmeeting.com/TAM2013/speakers )〕 Stollznow is also a Research Fellow for the James Randi Educational Foundation. She is a Contributing Editor for ''Skeptical Inquirer'' magazine, a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry and a member of their Executive Council. Stollznow is "a leading voice of a younger generation of scientific skeptics. She is an experienced paranormal investigator and science writer" according to JREF president D.J. Grothe.〔 As an expert in pseudoscience, fringe and paranormal topics, she is quoted on topics as diverse as handwriting analysis, holy relics, corporate psychics and Friday the 13th superstitions. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Karen Stollznow」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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