Tiangong 1 – Now full of Taikonauts
The 52nd episode of Consilience is out! You can download the mp3 here (24mb) and the file’s page on Archive.org is here.
Starring
Teaching Angela to Appreciate History
1844 – Joseph Smith is killed by a marauding horde.
News
First Taikonauts arrive at Chinese space station.
Nobel laureate pressured into leaving HIV centre for being stupid.
Limpopo textbook stuff up.
Belief in Heaven makes you more likely to be a criminal.
Fat people take more than their fair share.
Sci-fi/Fantasy Quote
“Yeah, right. Cursed. It’s big with humans. It means bad things are happening but you can’t be bothered to find an explanation.” – The Doctor, The Curse of the Black Spot, Dr Who
Link of the Week
Chris – First Orbit. A free documentary recreating Yuri Gagarin’s 1961 orbit of Earth with footage filmed mainly from the ISS.
Owen – The South African Sceptics email group.
Announcements
- Johannesburg
- Skeptics in the Pub – Wednesday 4th July at 19:00. Venue to be decided.
http://archive.org/details/ConsilienceEpisode52
http://archive.org/download/ConsilienceEpisode52/Consilience52.mp3
