Archive for August, 2012
Skeptics with a K: Episode #079
Posted by Mike in Podcast, Skeptics with a K on August 23, 2012
Broken glass, internal combustion, hexes, cats and magnets. Plus curses, steam, nukes and (would you believe it) more bloody homeopathy! Rescuing the world from the Dark Ages, it’s Skeptics with a K.
Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:02:14 — 14.7MB)
Mark Lynas: The God Species
Posted by Mike in Skeptics in the Pub on August 16, 2012
When: Thursday, September 20th, 2012 8.00 – 11.00 PM
Where: The Head of Steam, 7 Lime Street, Liverpool
Building on recent scientific discoveries, Mark Lynas explains that there are nine ‘planetary’ boundaries that humanity must not cross if Earth is to continue to support life and our civilisation. Climate change is one, but others – like ocean acidification, nitrogen use and biodiversity loss – are less well known, though equally crucial.
But this is no depressing lamentation of eco-doom. Instead Lynas presents a radical manifesto that calls for the increased use of controversial but environmentally friendly-technologies, such as genetic engineering and nuclear power, as part of a global effort to protect and nurture the biosphere. Ripping up years of ‘green’ orthodoxy, he reveals how the prescriptions of the current environmental movement are likely to hinder as much as help our vitally-needed effort to use science and technology to play God and save the planet.
Mark Lynas is the author of The God Species: How the Planet Can Survive the Age of Humans, published by Fourth Estate in July 2011. He has previous written two major books on climate change – High Tide: News from a warming world (2004) and Six Degrees: Our future on a hotter planet (2007).
InKredulous: Episode #014
Posted by Mike in InKredulous, Podcast on August 11, 2012
Episode 14 of our satirical comedy podcast. With questions on skeptical topics, and three guests answering them.
Your host is Andy Wilson (@InKredulosi) of the Merseyside Skeptics Society and Director and Co-Organiser of QED Conference
The audio this time is ok but we did have some tech problems, so please forgive us if it detracts. Should be ok though.
Appearing this time are:
- Carrie Poppy (@CarriePoppyYES), co-presenter of the “Oh No, It’s Ross and Carrie” podcast and Communications Director for the JREF
- Rick Owen (@Rick_Owen) occasional podcaster on Just Skeptics and Director and Co-Organiser of QED Conference
- Michael Marshall (@MrMMarsh), Co-Presenter of Skeptics With a K and Director and Co-Organiser of QED Conference
You can contact the show at andy@inkredulous.org, follow us on twitter @InKredulosi or NEW join our Facebook page.
As always, thanks for listening.
Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:16:18 — 26.3MB)
Skeptics with a K: Episode #078
Posted by Mike in Podcast, Skeptics with a K on August 9, 2012
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.
Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:05:16 — 15.3MB)
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