Episode #205
Skeptics with a K
Skeptic Media Limited
4.8 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2017
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Psychic telephone readings, magnetic sex toys, and cold Canadian eggs. Plus old fashioned cinemas, out-of-this-world orgasms, and Welsh baked goods. Bored of thrusting, it’s Skeptics with a K.
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| 0:00.0 | QED 2017 is fast approaching and you don't want to miss it. |
| 0:06.0 | In the past, QED has brought you the arrows of time, the origin of recording, |
| 0:10.0 | an escape from the Westboro Baptists, the sex bias of sex science and all manner of other, |
| 0:15.0 | science, pseudoscience, activism, slactivism and more. |
| 0:19.0 | Plus, Insects for Breakfast. |
| 0:21.0 | M, Yum. |
| 0:22.0 | QED 2017 takes place on the 14th and 15th of October in Manchester |
| 0:26.1 | England. We've already announced speakers like Sophie Wilson co-inventor of the |
| 0:30.3 | armed computer chip, Simon Singh who will be showing how to crack a genuine |
| 0:34.4 | enigma machine. Phil Scraton talking through the real life cover-up of the |
| 0:37.9 | Hillsborough tragedy and physicists Helen Chersky and Tim O'Brien. We'll have a live show from the Parapod Boys and the whole event will be |
| 0:45.5 | emptied by Ace Magic. Have some laughs, meet some new friends, make new connections, all only 109 pounds, including all the main |
| 0:54.9 | stage talks, panels, podcasts, workshops, our Saturday night entertainment and lots |
| 0:59.8 | more. Check out QEDcon.org for details. We'll see you in October. It is Thursday the 24th of August 2017 and you're listening to Skeptics for the K |
| 1:24.3 | the podcast for science reason and critical thinking. Skeptics for the |
| 1:27.8 | K is a production of the Merseys Skeptic Society a nonprofit |
| 1:30.8 | organisation for the promotion of scientific skepticism on Merseys |
| 1:33.8 | around the UK and internationally. |
| 1:35.7 | I am your host, Mike Hall, with me today is Marsh. |
| 1:38.3 | Hello. |
| 1:39.1 | And Alice? |
| 1:40.1 | So Marsh, it was your birthday. |
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