Consilience – Episode #64: Citation Needed, “False” Prophets and Fake Crap

Consilience: An African Science Podcast

Crazy eyes and a fancy hat

The 64th episode of Consilience is here! You can download the mp3 here (26mb) and the file’s page on Archive.org is here.

Starring

• Owen Swart
• Patrick Till
• Chris Sham

Teaching Angela to Appreciate History

• 1839 – Dageurreotype photography announced.

Guest special segments

1. Patrick: News headlines from Around the world in 5 minutes
   1. Alexandra Hospital neglect: Jeremy Hunt ‘disgusted’
   2. New strain of winter vomiting bug norovirus: Sydney 2012
   3. National Cathedral to have same-sex marriages.
   4. Grandfather saves family by sheltering in the sea to escape lethal Tasmania wildfire
   5. Zombie planet Formanhaut b “shocks” scientists.
   6. Milder temperatures reduce wildfire danger across southern Australia as scores of blazes burn.
   7. UN rings alarm over conditions of domestic workers
2. Chris: Citation Needed
   1. Today’s link: Wide Binary Stars Wreak Havoc in Planetary Systems
   2. Next time’s link: ‘Tricorder’ Closer to Reality

News

1. Gambia to slaughter AIDS patients
2. Labrador-sized dinosaurs walked Earth “243 million years ago”
3. Study shows lion population plummeting as habitat disappears
4. Zimbabwean prophet uses power of Jesus to rape woman.
5. Fake Crap

Sci-fi/Fantasy Quote

“I’ve been around long enough to know how ignorant I am. I don’t assume the universe obeys my preconceptions. Huh! But I know a frelling fact when it hits me in the face!”~Rygel, Farscape.

Announcements

1. Pretoria
   1. Sceptics in the Pub. Saturday 26th January, 12:30. Venue TBD.

Link of the week

Chris: Albert Bartlett’s population growth lecture.

Patrick: Encyclopedia of Life.

Owen: Gauteng Skeptics Google+ Community

http://archive.org/details/Consilience64

http://archive.org/download/Consilience64/Consilience64.mp3