Episode #271
Skeptics with a K
Skeptic Media Limited
4.8 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2020
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Australian Bushfires, COVID-19, and the comeback of astrology. Plus pigs legs, dingle-dangle scarecrows, and Mercury Communications. Governing the Anthropocene, it’s Skeptics with a K.
Mixed and edited byMorgan Clarke.
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| 0:00.0 | It is a a Thursday the 5th of March 2020 and you're listening to Skeptics with a K |
| 0:18.0 | the podcast for science reason and critical thinking. |
| 0:21.0 | Skeptics with a K is a production of the Merseys |
| 0:23.2 | Skeptic Society a non-profit organization for the promotion of scientific |
| 0:26.6 | skepticism on Merseys around the UK and internationally. I am your host Mike Hall |
| 0:30.8 | with me today is Marsh. Hello Marsh Hello Alice and special guest it's |
| 0:34.2 | Sarah hello Sarah how are you very good thank you it's been a while since you've been on the |
| 0:39.3 | show yes it has what have you been doing in that intervening time? We would like all of the |
| 0:44.2 | information. Academic things, traveling things, doing lots of things about fires, |
| 0:50.1 | you know, just doing lots of things. Because you're writing a book as well, I am. I'm writing a book as well I am I'm writing a book and it's due I'm meant to submit it on the 8th of May so right I'm I'm not I'm not okay right now I'm not okay right now. |
| 1:03.0 | You're not okay. |
| 1:04.0 | I'm not okay. |
| 1:05.0 | Is it not going well? |
| 1:06.0 | Do we need to lock you away in a hut like Douglas Adams. |
| 1:08.0 | We just need to... |
| 1:09.0 | I've decided to completely restructure it. |
| 1:11.0 | Oh, now I think the right time you're doing that. |
| 1:13.2 | Because what needed was more work on your plate. But I think it'll work better. |
| 1:17.7 | Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm gonna I was gonna do it geographically no one really |
| 1:21.5 | cares but I'm not doing it more about |
| 1:23.8 | theme so like climate change in ecosystems and fire in ecosystems and because it's a |
| 1:29.3 | more academic it's not a laybook is it's more academic key textbooks. |
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