Episode #035

Skeptics with a K

Skeptic Media Limited

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Science

4.8 • 924 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2010

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Power Balance, retroactive memory and owning the Sun. Also uppity flamingos, partying mushrooms, crushed sprouts and Richard Saunders. With the ability to correctly locate porn 53.1% of the time, it’s Skeptics with a K.

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0:00.0	It is Thursday the 2nd of December 2010 and you're listening to Skeptics with a K
0:16.0	the Podcast for Science, Reason and Critical Thinking.
0:18.6	Skeptics with a K is a production of the Mercy Science Skeptics Society non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of scientific
0:24.8	skepticism on Merseys, around the UK and internationally.
0:28.6	I am your host, Mike Hall with me today is Marsh, hello, and Colin. Colin oh so last week I was in London for a few days because one of the
0:38.0	websites that I made had been nominated for an award.
0:42.0	Well no we lost.
0:44.0	We lost.
0:45.0	Did you lose the award or did you not win the award?
0:48.0	Yeah, we were given the award and then just left in the car park.
0:50.0	Yeah, just dropped it on.
0:51.0	I don't know where it is.
0:52.0	No, we didn't win the award. We were up for a most innovative website.
0:57.2	And another company won the most innovative. Well I detect bitterness in that voice.
1:03.4	Well I wasn't particularly pleased because when as they went up and there's a round of applause
1:07.5	to go and the winner is you know whatever. There's a round of applause and the people went up to collect the award and the
1:14.2	the in a little announcer comes over on the microphone and goes we gave them this
1:17.2	this award to reflect their astonishing growth between January and October this year
1:22.2	and I said right so not innovation
1:24.8	that's quite an innovative award which choice really they were
1:30.5	innovating with the Innovation Award I think you have got meta on you there.
1:33.6	They have.
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