Episode #238
Skeptics with a K
Skeptic Media Limited
4.8 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2018
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Tearing apples, parole hearings, social media, and judicial reviews. Plus brightening lamps, magic soap, laddered tights, and conspiracy theories. With a big announcement, it’s Skeptics with a K.
If you need to skip through Emma’s discussion about sex offenders, it runs from 0:45:00 to 1:08:10.
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| 0:00.0 | I was looking at lamps yesterday in John Lewis. I'm looking to buy a lamp for the old thing, |
| 0:05.2 | the old desk in my office. And there was one of those lamps that you tap it, you just touch it and it comes on, and you touch it and you touch it and it goes off. And there's another lamp that you tap it, you just touch it and it comes on and you touch it and you touch it and it goes on, you touch it again and it goes brighter and you touch again and it goes brighter again. |
| 0:18.8 | Touch it and it goes off. And Nicola touched it a few times and And she said, oh, she said, |
| 0:25.5 | she looked at the details about. |
| 0:27.1 | I said, oh, it says it's dimmable as well. |
| 0:30.0 | And she said, how's it dimmable? |
| 0:31.2 | And she was looking for a way of dimming it. |
| 0:32.6 | I was like, you just tapped it, so many times, |
| 0:35.3 | that's dimming it. |
| 0:36.5 | Said no, that's just off and on. |
| 0:37.6 | I say it's not off and on, because it's off, |
| 0:40.2 | and then it's on, and then on a bit more, |
| 0:41.8 | and then on a lot and that is very just just |
| 0:44.5 | demable yeah sequentially denouable well I guess it's not dimmable it's the |
| 0:49.3 | opposite of dimmable it's upable undimable. Un-demable. |
| 0:53.0 | You can't go down. |
| 0:54.0 | Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, yeah, you come back off the other side. |
| 0:58.0 | All lights go dramatically down. |
| 1:00.0 | So you think it's an undimmable one, but an undimmable, the opposite of |
| 1:07.2 | dimmable. Brightable. Brightable. It's a brightable lamp. It's a brightable lamp. |
| 1:11.8 | It's just switch that lamp on, yeah. |
| 1:14.0 | Can you bright to bleed up a little bit? |
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