Episode #081
Skeptics with a K
Skeptic Media Limited
4.8 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2012
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Deaf gerbils, global consciousness and human chess. Plus more sports bracelets, hidden mormons and how not to argue. Oh, and all the latest news on QED (tickets now on sale http://qedcon.org). Making broad and over-reaching claims, it’s Skeptics with a K.
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| 0:00.0 | It is Thursday the 20th of September 2012 and you're listening to Skeptics with |
| 0:16.6 | the K, the podcast for Science, Reason and Critical Thinking. |
| 0:19.5 | I've hurt my legs. |
| 0:20.9 | You've hurt your legs? |
| 0:21.9 | I have hurt my legs. How have you hurt your legs? I was clearing out the loft. Right. |
| 0:25.7 | I took it over the weekend and it's... Was there a maniac hiding up there? Did he rugby tackle you? |
| 0:30.8 | Did he? No, but there was a large metal water tank which I had to lower down |
| 0:35.8 | through the loft hatch which is just... Did you not need that water tank in the loft? |
| 0:39.8 | No, no, we use, we have better water-based facilities now than a big metal box in the ceiling. |
| 0:47.4 | Right, this wasn't like the boiler or anything like that. |
| 0:49.3 | This is the hot water storage tank. |
| 0:51.3 | I think it was probably formerly the hot water storage tank. I think it was probably formally the hot water storage |
| 0:54.5 | tank right but now we have a combination boiler so we don't need that was was |
| 0:59.0 | there poo inside the metal box and no for all so let's say to it yeah I I had put out on Twitter the The number of people who replied saying was there a jar of poo? |
| 1:14.0 | There is jars of poo just secreted all over the house. |
| 1:20.0 | Colin, you've got a sad story. |
| 1:22.8 | I have, yes. |
| 1:24.8 | Our cat, the other night. |
| 1:26.6 | We were calling her for hours, didn't you come in? |
| 1:29.5 | And they were half one. |
| 1:30.4 | She kind of came into the window, using a front paws and it back leg was |
| 1:33.8 | kind of sticking out on a right angle and they're flopping about no idea what |
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