Episode #155
Skeptics with a K
Skeptic Media Limited
4.8 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2015
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Lifting weights, grinding corn, what happened in Edinburgh, and the Berenstein Bears. Plus polymers, Sliders, Nelson Mandela, and California Proposition 65. Fully tested for contamination by GMOs, it’s Skeptics with a K.
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| 0:00.0 | It is Thursday the 27th of August 2015 and you're listening to Skeptics with |
| 0:17.1 | the Kay, the podcast for science reason and critical thinking. Skeptics with |
| 0:21.0 | the Kay is a production of the Merseys Skeptic Society, a non-profit |
| 0:24.6 | organization for the promotion of scientific skepticism on Merseys around the UK and |
| 0:29.0 | internationally. |
| 0:30.0 | I am your host Mike Hall with me today is Marsh. |
| 0:32.4 | Hello. And Marsh. Hello. |
| 0:33.0 | And Alice. |
| 0:34.8 | We've had some peculiar weather recently |
| 0:37.4 | where it's been sunny because it's August |
| 0:39.5 | and then it was rain on all of the rain. |
| 0:42.0 | It was the craziest of rain the other day. That was |
| 0:44.5 | incredible last night. It was incredibly rainy. |
| 0:46.9 | Pretty rainy and lots of thunder and lightning. |
| 0:49.0 | I've never seen lightning that frequent. It was like every five seconds or seven seconds it was another |
| 0:54.0 | bit of lightning yeah like half an hour and Katie loved it because Katie loves a |
| 0:58.0 | storm she loves a lightning storm so she was oppressed against the glass trying |
| 1:01.5 | desperately to get electrocuted. |
| 1:03.0 | Yeah, she didn't go outside because Katie loves a storm, but Katie also hates the rain. |
| 1:08.0 | Right. That's unfortunate. |
| 1:11.0 | I just like both. |
| 1:12.0 | I would have happily gone and walked in the thunderstorm if we weren't in the middle of eating dinner. |
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