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slash UK slash AI for people. Welcome to Science Talk, the weekly podcast of Scientific American

for the seven days starting June 4th, 2008. I'm Steve Merski.

This week on the podcast, we'll talk with world-renowned James Randy, and Scientific American

editor Mark Alpert discusses his new novel, A Physics Thriller. First up, James Randy

as a top magician and escape artist, he went by the name The Amazing Randy. For the last three decades, he has supported sound science and exposed fakes who claim supernatural or paranormal abilities. The James Randy Educational Foundation has long offered a $1 million prize to anyone with such ability that is truly demonstrable, that money is still unclaimed.

I called Randy at his office in Fort Lauderdale.

James Randy, great to talk to you this morning. How are you?

A pleasure. I'm glad to be here. I think that we have to meet in person one of these days.

This business over the telephone sounds a little conversive, don't you think? Well, we actually have met, and I'll talk about that a little later.

But first, tell us about this meeting that's coming up in Las Vegas,

and then we'll talk a little bit about your foundation.

Well, this is the amazing meeting number six.

We've had five

before, as you probably guessed. It's called Eye Skeptic, and it's subtitled modern skepticism

in the Internet Age. We have a wonderful, wonderful keynote speaker this year that Dr. Neil

deGrasse Tyson, who's the astrophysicist that we all know and

love

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