International Skeptics United

0:00:00     Messages from Steve Novella, Jay Novella, Bob Novella, Rebecca Watson and Evan Bernstein from The Skeptics' Guide to The Universe podcast and Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com 0:03:00     Introduction Richard Saunders and Stefan Sokja 0:15:25     Maynard's Spooky Action.. at TAM 2012 An interview with D.J. Grothe from The James Randi Educational Foundation 0:36:38     Messages from Derek Colanduno from Skepticality and Fionnuala Murphy from The Skeprechauns 0:37:20     If you knew Shuzi - Read by Richard Saunders Over the past couple of years, the attention of Australian Skeptics has been drawn to a long line of so called “Power Bands”. Yet another contender — the Shuzi ‘nano-vibrational technology’ — has recently been investigated by the Skeptics. 0:51:14     Messages from George Hrab from The Geologic Podcast and Mike, Marsh and Colin from Skeptics with a K 0:53:17     The Think Tank A speical Think Tank looking back over 200 episodes of The Skeptic Zone. Joining Richard Saunders are Dr Racheal Dunlop, Joanne Benhamu and Eran Segev. 1:27:44     "And while you do that... I'll run down the stairs and grab a nice...."

This week on Skepticality, Derek has a discussion with noted humanist Nikki Stern on her latest book, Hope in Small Doses. The book is a journey to find the ultimate meaning of “hope” from a secular point of view without the need or requirement for supernatural thinking. Hope has been something that Nikki has thought a lot about since the tragic death of her husband during the 9/11 terrorist attack on the twin towers in New York City.

Dr. David Gorski and Mike Farrell

These strange places around the world rank among the most macabre. Some have fascinating historical explanations, and others are explained by cultural traditions.

The gang was once again joined by Chris who led the show off with a segment about allergy tests. Adam then kept his promise from last week and looked into bottled water and how it compares to tap water. Darren then did a quick rant about the single cause fallacy, and Elan closed out the show exploring what ADIDAS really stands for.

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What happens if you're exposed to the vacuum of space? Is using a mobile phone on a flight safe? Which is more contagious - a cough or a sneeze? This week we answer your sticky science questions, such as what makes Jam set? And how does ironing work? Plus, we meet the very first lumberjacks, locate the dark matter in our locality and find out how a small electric pulse can stop a seizure in its tracks...

This Day in Skepticism; News Items: Dino Mating, Blowing Up Asteroids, Punching for God, Occ the Skeptical Caveman; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Kinesio Tape; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction

0:00:00     Introduction Richard Saunders 0:04:44     Maynard's Spooky Action.. at TAM 2012 An interview with Bob Novella from The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe Bob is a cofounder and Vice-President of the New England Skeptical Society. He has written numerous articles that are widely published in the skeptical literature and has a special interest in physics and astronomy, their abuse by pseudoscientists, and methods of self-deception 0:20:15     Maynard's Spooky Action.. at TAM 2012 A chat with our friend Linley Kissick from Melbourne. 0:22:05     Maynard's Spooky Action.. at TAM 2012 An interview with Sharon Hill, who runs the Doubtful News website Doubtful News is a unique news feed providing links to original sources of internet news stories about things that make you go “Hmm…” News is pulled from a wide range of sources including paranormal and anti-science sources. 0:28:35 Maynard's Spooky Action.. at TAM 2012 An interview with Margaret Downey from the Friggatriskaidekaphobia treatment room Frigga-triska-ideka-phobia is an unreasonable fear of Friday-the-Thirteenth. 0:37:10     Richard Saunders chats to Liam Jones from the Secular Student Alliance 041:35     Maynard's Spooky Action.. Claims of Palm Reading with Albert and Jean Can people really see the past and future in the palm of the hand? Well... we doubt it. However it is worth, from time to time, hearing form people who claim it's true.

Andrew Blum writes about Architecture, infrastructure and technology for many publications, including the New Yorker, The New York Times, Slate and Popular Science. He is a correspondent for Wired and a contributing editor to Metropolis. His first book is Tubes: Behind the Scenes at the Internet.

The Olympics, Nescafé, horses and heart energy. Plus acultomancy, dictiomancy, hippomancy and pedomancy. Some people think we’re bonkers, but we just think we’re free — it’s Skeptics with a K.

For decades, legends of a giant sexually-assaulting bat-creature have trickled out of Zanzibar. In this episode of MonsterTalk we interview Ben Radford about his investigation of the creature and the role that the monster called Popabawa has played in culture and politics in the United States. READ episode notes

Journalist Paul Lewis has completed a study into the causes of the riots, and came back to Westminster Skeptics on the first anniversary of the first night of rioting, to tell us the results.