The 47th episode of Consilience is out! You can download the mp3 here (29mb) and the file’s page on Archive.org is here.
Starring
Teaching Angela to Appreciate History
1978 – First spam email sent by Gary Thuerk.
News
Robots Fighting Wars Could Be Blamed for Mistakes On the Battlefield.
Thinking about things makes God disappear.
Durban to harness wave energy.
The name pronunciation effect.
Cellphones still don’t cause cancer.
Link of the Week
Michael – “People Don’t Read, and Why It Matters to Skepticism” by Benjamin Radford.
Chris – How many people are in space right now?
Owen – The Human Bible podcast.
Quote
Submitted by Kevin Ternes.
“In science a negative result is as important as a positive one.”
— Prof. Ian Hood, Eleventh Hour – “Resurrection”
Announcements
- Facebook Group Events is still broken. Please use Plancast instead.
- Johannesburg:
- Sceptics in the Pub – Wednesday 9 May, venue to be decided
http://archive.org/download/ConsilienceEpisode47/Consilience47.mp3
http://archive.org/details/ConsilienceEpisode47