Episode #362
Skeptics with a K
Skeptic Media Limited
4.8 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2023
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
This week, Mike talks about software piracy and copy protection, and the risk of a video game black hole, and Marsh looks at recent messaging from the World Health Organisation which seems to promote 'traditional medicine'.
Meanwhile, Alice and Marsh watch the birds of prey display at a music festival.
Mixed and edited by Morgan Clarke.
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| 0:00.0 | It is a |
| 0:13.7 | Thursday the 31st of August 2023 and you're listening to Skeptics with a K |
| 0:18.4 | the podcast for science reason and critical thinking. |
| 0:21.0 | Skeptics with a K is a production of the Merseys Skeptics with a case a production of the Merseys |
| 0:23.4 | Skeptic Society a nonprofit organization for the promotion of scientific |
| 0:27.0 | skepticism on Merseys around the UK and internationally. I'm your host Mike Hall |
| 0:31.4 | with me today is Marsh. |
| 0:32.8 | Hello. |
| 0:33.8 | And Alice. |
| 0:34.8 | So I've just got I've got a new car. |
| 0:37.4 | You've got a new car. |
| 0:38.4 | I've just got a new car. |
| 0:39.4 | I went to get my car serviced. |
| 0:40.9 | So I drive a hybrid car at the moment is I've got |
| 0:43.1 | hybrid so it's got an electric motor and a petrol motor in it. Yeah. And it's one of |
| 0:46.3 | those ones where it'll use the electric one where it makes sense and to switch |
| 0:49.9 | the petrol one where it makes sense. Which is different to mind where mine's a hybrid but it just |
| 0:53.7 | it has a battery that now and then again just gives the electric engine it gives the petrol engine a little bit. A little bit of a |
| 0:58.7 | I think it's just a little bit of a it's just a little hybrid to count under like Eulers schemes and no more hybrid than that. But it's got like |
| 1:05.1 | regenerative braking and stuff like that so when you know when I break it recharges the |
| 1:09.2 | battery instead of just heating up the brake pads and that sort of stuff. And I got that because I wanted like a foot in the |
| 1:17.1 | electric car camp and so when I recently got that service and I was up at the dealership I |
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