Episode #080
Skeptics with a K
Skeptic Media Limited
4.8 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2012
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Nano-vibrations, short-wave radio, level-crossings and clumped blood. Plus shoes, smokers, sinus arrhythmia and the Godfather. Running over unicorns, it’s Skeptics with a K.
Oh, and QED is back! http://qedcon.org/.
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| 0:00.0 | I only have one pair of feet at a time and see so I think it's a bit odd to have more than one pair of shoes. |
| 0:05.4 | But the advantage of having several pairs is you can alternate throughout the week and all three pairs will |
| 0:10.3 | last long. And will I in total? You want want you to go the shop and buy a new pair? |
| 0:14.0 | If I have a pair of shoes, say a pair of shoes last a year. |
| 0:17.8 | So I have this pair of shoes and it lasts a year and I buy another pair and |
| 0:21.0 | they buy another pair and buy another pair at last year. |
| 0:22.1 | That's three years |
| 0:23.0 | if I bought all three pairs up front and wear them on alternate days surely it |
| 0:27.8 | would just be at the end of three years I've still got three worn out pairs of |
| 0:30.8 | shoes well yeah but you wouldn't have to go the shop again till |
| 0:33.4 | it's the up front outlay that's the problem only I'm spreading the cost into |
| 0:37.3 | manageable annual payments. That's that's some sort of. It is Thursday the 6th of September 2012 and you're listening to Skeptich with a Cay, the |
| 0:52.4 | podcast for |
| 0:52.9 | science, reason and critical thinking. Skeptics with a Cay is a production of |
| 0:56.0 | the Merseys Skeptic Society, one of many productions that we put on a mow apparently. |
| 1:00.0 | A non-profit organization for the promotion of scientific skepticism on mercy side around the UK and internationally. |
| 1:06.7 | I am your host, my call with me today is Marsh. |
| 1:09.1 | Hello and Colin. |
| 1:11.1 | So I wanted to lead with a Mike Health Update. |
| 1:13.6 | Oh, we've a health update. |
| 1:15.4 | Listen to me remember a few episodes ago where I decided I was dying because my heart had gone weird. |
| 1:21.0 | Did it turn out to be due to all the free Pepsi? |
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