Episode description
Episode description
0:00:00 IntroductionRichard Saunders 0:04:30 You Can Count on Adrienne. Wiki UFOs
This week Adrienne takes a look at some of the many UFOs reports from the first half of the 20th century as recorded on Wikipedia.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_reported_UFO_sightings 0:17:11 Australian Skeptics Newsletter
What skeptical news has caught the eye of Tim Mendham this week?
Read by Adrienne Hill.
http://www.skeptics.com.au 0:30:48 Vale Rex Gilroy
One of Australia's all time great characters from the world of cryptozoology has died. We look back at some of the media reports about Rex and his decades long search for mysterious animals.
Maynard interviews Rex Gilroy for the Skeptic Zone.
https://skepticzone.libsyn.com/the-skeptic-zone-291-16may2014 0:42:02 A Dive into a Trove
A wander through the decades of digitised Australian newspapers on a search for references to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
1922.05.08 - The Daily Telegraph - Sydney 1923.06.05 - Singleton Argus 1928.07.21 - The Register - SA 1930.07.07 - The Daily Pictorial - Sydney 1930.07.12 - Northern Star - Lismore 1930.07.29 - Border Watch - SA
http://www.trove.nla.gov.au Also 10 Years Ago
The Skeptic Zone #235 - 20.April.2013
Richard Saunders in Olomouc, the Czech Republic - A chat with Jakub Ráliš from the AFO48 Festival. What is AFO? Find out this long running festival - The Enemies of Reason - at AFO48 Richard Saunders introduces the film by Dr. Richard Dawkins - A quick chat with Rebecca Watson Rebecca was also a guest of the festival. - The winner of the international science film competition at AFO48. Jury member Bechara Saab annouces the winning film, The Grammar of Happiness. Other jury members were Irina Belykh and Richard Saunders - QED in Manchester. A chat with Michael Marshall and Geoff Whelan and many other people at QED - A Week in Science with Dr Paul Willis - Maynard interviews James Owen Weatherall about his book, 'The Physics of Wall Street'.
https://skepticzone.libsyn.com/the-skeptic-zone-235-20-april-2013