Episode #298
Skeptics with a K
Skeptic Media Limited
4.8 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2021
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
In this extended episode of Skeptics with a K, Alice talks about the planned redundancies from the University of Liverpool’s Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, and Mike discusses green software development, and how Bitcoin works. For more information on the redundancies at FHLS, visit www.hls47.co.uk.
Note: The opening segment to this episode features a conversation about sexual harassment and the murder of Sarah Everard which some listeners may find distressing. If you need to skip past this segment, it finishes at 0:21:27.
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| 0:00.0 | It is Thursday the 18th of March 2021 and you're listening to Skeptic through the K |
| 0:18.1 | the podcast for science reason and critical thinking Skeptics for the K |
| 0:22.0 | is a production of the Merseys Skeptic Society, a non-profit |
| 0:25.2 | organization for the promotion of scientific skepticism on Merseys around the UK and internationally. |
| 0:30.1 | I am your host Mike Hall with me today is Marsh. |
| 0:33.0 | Hello. |
| 0:34.0 | And Alice. |
| 0:35.0 | Hello. |
| 0:36.0 | So I mentioned on the show, the last show that we did that I was I was currently looking |
| 0:40.4 | for work and I've been wall-to to wall job interview since then to an absurd degree |
| 0:45.3 | we've had listeners writing in going hey I work for a company do you want to come work for us which is |
| 0:49.2 | really nice I didn't didn't expect that including somebody from Apple which was like well blimmy okay but you |
| 0:55.2 | know that's been really nice that's been really positive but I've never done so |
| 0:59.2 | many technical demos in my life it's it gets a long time since I've had to go out and look for work. |
| 1:06.2 | Yeah, normally what you do is you set up your own company and start working for that, which is |
| 1:10.5 | sort of like an advanced form of nepotism. |
| 1:13.2 | So I'm you know I've been absolutely rammed last two weeks I'm |
| 1:20.5 | absolutely shattered as well as there's a load of family stuff going on that I don't want to get into on air, but it's just I'm absolutely wrecked. I don't know about you folks. |
| 1:28.0 | Yeah, I'm I'm not good. I'm sort of done with this all now. I'm very sick of it all. I've had to cut my own hair, which has come out better than I thought it would be, but I'm still rather a proper haircut. |
| 1:40.0 | I'm living my life currently on two alerts on a daily basis, one of which is the alert that tells me when the sun sets so I can slowly watch the days get longer on my phone. |
| 1:51.0 | So I can just see that it's been a couple of extra minutes per day |
| 1:56.1 | clowing them back from from the Reaper there good and the other one is I've got a Twitter alert set up for an account called |
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