Episode description
0:00:00 IntroductionRichard Saunders 00:02:32 Ben Radford in Sydney
A chat with Ben Radford about his first trip to Australia and his adventures and the Squaring the Strange Podcast. 0:07:24 The Bent Spoon Award for 2024
The announcement of the 2024 Australian Skeptics Awards. 0:18:56 Australian Skeptics Newsletter
What skeptical news has caught the eye of Tim Mendham this week?
Read by Adrienne Hill.
http://www.skeptics.com.au 0:28:06 Maynard's Spooky Action
From Sydney Skeptics in the Pub, Maynard talks to Dr Liam Brierley a Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow, UK. He uses biostatistics, computer science, and AI to investigate how viruses evolve and transmit between animal species. Liam is also a Media Ambassador for the Royal Statistical Society and has worked with national press including The Guardian and BBC's Panorama to make sense of health data. 0:37:42 The TROVE Archives
A wander through the decades of digitised Australian newspapers on a search for references to the Alien Autopsy of 1995.
1995.06.29 - The Canberra Times
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