Episode Eighty-Five – On Something Fierce – Interview With Marian Call
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:11 — 32.3MB) | Embed “The music is a little silly but mostly very sincere and honest, mostly acoustic, occasionally symphonic, eclectic, rhythmic and warm with a side of whimsy.” Singer-songwriter Marian Call has just finished her “49>50 Tour”, which went all around the US (and most of the provinces of Canada). She lives in Anchorage, Alaska but has a huge following... Read More
Episode Eighty-Two – On Forty Days Of Treats – Interview With Liz Lutgendorff
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 20:06 — 9.2MB) | Embed “We need to show support in some way, but also not directly confront these people, because a lot of the time it’s just completely pointless. Combative is not the way we wanted to go about this. We thought this was a good-will campaign that everyone could get involved with.” In response to the anti-abortion “40 Days for Life” campaign, which organises... Read More
Episode Eighty-One – On These Are The Ways The World Will End – Dragon*Con Panel
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 51:37 — 23.6MB) | Embed From a global pandemic to the Hadron super-collider… have some fun as our panel rips into the latest world-enders and answers your questions about why we are probably safe (for now). With many, many, MANY thanks to the Skeptrack – Derek Colanduno of Skepticality.com and Mark Ditzler at Abrupt Media. From the 2011 Skeptrack at Dragon*Con – blogpost... Read More
Episode Eighty – On Paranormal Belief In Queensland – The Truth Told By Dr Martin Bridgstock
Recorded at the New Zealand Skeptic Convention in Christchurch, 27th August 2011. QEDCon! More information available at http://qedcon.org. Until recently, Queensland was regarded as the hillbilly state of Australia. It was dominated by fundamentalism and flirted with bogus cancer cures and creation science. After determined action by skeptics, and some major political convulsions, the state has changed completely. Still, the question remains: how... Read More
Episode Seventy-Nine – On Project Barnum – Interview With Hayley Stevens
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 34:33 — 47.5MB) | Embed This week features an interview with Hayley Stevens. Project Barnum was born after news broke in September 2011 that self-proclaimed psychic, Sally Morgan, had been accused by audience members at one of her shows of being fed information. Speculation, accusations and denials were thrown left, right and centre, yet there was one group of people caught in the cross... Read More
Episode Seventy-Eight – On Being A Noisy Astronomer – Interview With Nicole Gugliucci
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 6:47 — 9.3MB) | Embed As featured on the 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast! Donate audio and funding to this award-winning podcast by heading to their official site, at http://365daysofastronomy.org. During my fourth year working at Dragon*Con, I celebrated my first visit to the Atlanta Skeptics Star Party with Nicole Gugliucci. Nicole is a graduate student at the University of Virginia, who... Read More
Episode Seventy-Seven – On The Skeptic’s Dictionary For Kids – Interview With Robert Todd Carroll
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 37:38 — 51.7MB) | Embed Apologies for the delay due to jetlag, travel and settling in back home before getting back into podcasting again. Here’s an interview about a great new online resource for young skeptics! To help kids to grow into intelligent, critically thinking adults, Robert Todd Carroll, author of the fabulous Skeptic’s Dictionary, has written just the thing: The Skeptic’s... Read More
Episode Seventy – On Hoaxing The Hoaxers – Dr Karen Stollznow, Matthew Baxter And Bryan Bonner
Mp3 audio download here! Also available via iTunes. This year at SkeptiCamp Colorado, a unique presentation was made by a unique group of skeptical people. What follows is a funny, fascinating, horrifying and ultimately awesome not-so-ghost story – you have been warned. Dr Karen Stollznow is an academic, author, investigator of the skeptical kind. She is the ‘Naked Skeptic’ columnist for CSICOP, was recently made a member of... Read More
Episode Sixty-Nine – On Miracle Detectives – Interview With Dr Indre Viskontas
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (34.6MB) | Embed Download the mp3 here – also available via iTunes. With many thanks to Sharon Hill of SheThought – an interview with Dr Indre Viskontas! Dr. Viskontas holds a PhD from UCLA in cognitive neuroscience, focusing her studies on how memories and other cognitive processes are supported by neural networks. Aside from being the Associate Editor of the journal Neurocase and performing... Read More
Episode Sixty-Eight – On Updates And The Stars Are Her Laboratory
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (12.3MB) | Embed Download the mp3 here – also available on iTunes! A quick update episode, which includes the sad news of the passing of Derek K. Miller, who is responsible for the theme-song for the Token Skeptic podcast. Derek K. Miller worked as a writer and editor since the 1980s, specializing in technical and scientific subjects. He was also a drummer, guitarist, singer, recording artist, and... Read More
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