Supernatural Science
The Naked Scientists Podcast
Dr Chris Smith
4.6 • 958 Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2014
⏱️ 59 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | On Britain streets, you unknowingly see, extraordinary heroes who look just like me. |
| 0:07.0 | We live without capes or superpowers. |
| 0:10.0 | We're the everyday heroes who save the hour a nurse a teacher a cabby a mate pride of |
| 0:17.3 | Britain's here it's time to celebrate do you know an everyday hero who deserves |
| 0:22.4 | recognition visit pride of Britain dot com Do you know an everyday hero who deserves recognition? |
| 0:23.0 | Visit pride of Britain.com and nominate them today. |
| 0:26.0 | T.S.B.ular edition of the naked scientists |
| 0:41.8 | recorded in the decidedly creepy setting of the |
| 0:44.8 | Cambridge Science Center in front of this wonderful audience. This time we're looking at the science of the supernatural. |
| 0:57.0 | But first let's meet our ghoulish guests who are |
| 1:00.8 | Supernatural scientists Chris French. |
| 1:03.0 | He's head of the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit at Goldsmiths University of London. |
| 1:08.0 | Chris finds out where the psychics really are psychic. |
| 1:10.0 | He also finds out what makes people say they've seen a ghost. |
| 1:13.0 | Sitting next to Chris is Jane Asple. She's a senior lecturer in psychology at Anglia Ruskin University. |
| 1:20.0 | Jane works on outer body experiences, including inducing these experiences in other people to see what happens to their brains in the process. |
| 1:28.0 | David Spiegelhorter is a statistician and a professor of the public understanding of risk at Comer's University. |
| 1:33.4 | He looks into the science of coincidence. |
| 1:35.6 | And Deborah Hyde is sitting next to David, she's the editor of Skeptic magazine. |
| 1:39.5 | Deborah likes nothing more than to get her teeth into tales of vampires, werewolves and other scary brutes. |
| 1:44.5 | And next to her, Gustav Kuhn, is a psychologist and also a magician from Goldsmiths University of |
| 1:49.5 | London who'll be showing us some magic tricks during the show. |
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