Consilience: An African Science Podcast

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May 23, 2013Consilience – Episode #66: Learning to Grow Weed, Holy Water Stampeed and Nigeria Ruins It for the Rest of Us
Pictured: your living room.
The 66th episode of Consilience is here! You can download the mp3 here (30mb) and the file’s page on Archive.org is here. Starring
Owen Swart
Patrick Till
Chris Sham
Suzanne Patterson
Teaching Angela to Appreciate History
1945: Operation Paperclip steps into high gear.
Guest Segments
Patrick’s News Headlines
Climate change caused early humans to flourish.
Adverts target rhino horn consumers.
Local leader blames negligence in South Africa circumcision deaths.
Dubai police in new crackdown on ivory smuggling.
Lesotho, South Africa collaborate to develop $1.3bn hydro project.
Language and the two schools of thought.
Soo’s “I learned on the Internet…”
growweedeasy.com
News
False rape claims usually aren’t
First case of polio reported in Somalia since 2007
Lethal stampede for magic water in Ghana
Announcements
Joburg
Sceptics in the Park – Joburg. Sunday 26th May, 13:00. Johannesburg Botanical Gardens, Emmerentia.
Rumble in the Pub – Joburg. Thursday 30th May, 18:30. Venue TBA.
Sceptics in the Pub – Joburg. Wednesday 5th June, 19:00. Pizaevino, The Wedge, Morningside.
Sceptics in the Pub – East Rand. Tuesday 11th June, 19:00. Grandslam Sports Diner, Edenvale.
Link of the week
Soo: Nemogould
Chris: Daniel Dennett’s seven tools for thinking
Patrick: News360
Owen: Kissing Hank’s Ass
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May 15, 2013Consilience – Episode #65: Malagasy Locusts, Cellphone Losers and Dirty Hippie Stoners
‘Let my people go.”
The 65th episode of Consilience is here! You can download the mp3 here (19mb) and the file’s page on Archive.org is here.
Starring
Owen Swart
Patrick Till
Chris Sham
Teaching Angela to Appreciate History
1796 – Edward Jenner administers the first successful smallpox vaccine.

News
Locust plague in Madagascar
Dementia striking more people, earlier
San Francisco morons lose cellphone case.
A new trick for spotting exo-planets works
Sci-fi/Fantasy Quote
“Speculation is not evidence.”
– Lt.Cdr Tuvok, Star Trek: Voyager, S6e09 “The Voyager Conspiracy”
Announcements
Joburg
Sceptics in the Pub – West Rand. Wednesday 15th May, 18:00. Green & Gold pub, Roodepoort.
Rumble in the Pub – Midrand. Thursday 16th May, 18:30. Dros, New Rd.
Sceptics in the Pub – Joburg. Wednesday 5th June, 19:00. Pizaevino, The Wedge, Morningside.
Durban
Sceptics in the Pub. Thursday 16th of May, 18:00. Pizetta.

Link of the week
Chris: The Planetary Society
Patrick: Google Drive
Owen: StarTalk Radio
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January 21, 2013Consilience – Episode #64: Citation Needed, “False” Prophets and Fake Crap
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
Patrick: News headlines from Around the world in 5 minutes
Alexandra Hospital neglect: Jeremy Hunt ‘disgusted’
New strain of winter vomiting bug norovirus: Sydney 2012
National Cathedral to have same-sex marriages.
Grandfather saves family by sheltering in the sea to escape lethal Tasmania wildfire
Zombie planet Formanhaut b “shocks” scientists.
Milder temperatures reduce wildfire danger across southern Australia as scores of blazes burn.
UN rings alarm over conditions of domestic workers
Chris: Citation Needed
Today’s link: Wide Binary Stars Wreak Havoc in Planetary Systems
Next time’s link: ‘Tricorder’ Closer to Reality

News
Gambia to slaughter AIDS patients
Labrador-sized dinosaurs walked Earth “243 million years ago”
Study shows lion population plummeting as habitat disappears
Zimbabwean prophet uses power of Jesus to rape woman.
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
Pretoria
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
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November 15, 2012Consilience – Episode #63: Toenails for Rhinos, Grass-eating Hominins and Monogamy Hormones
Pictured: rhino horn
The 63rd episode of Consilience is out! You can download the mp3 here (20mb) and the file’s page on Archive.org is here.
Starring
Owen Swart
Patrick Till

Teaching Angela to Appreciate History
1765 – Birth of Robert Fulton Jr, American inventor.

Updates.
Leo Igwe appointed JREF fellow.

Discussion
Top Ten Higgs Boson Facts
News
SA film-maker launches campaign to substitute rhino horn with human toenail clippings.
Our ancestors took to eating grass earlier than previously thought.
Exposure to oxytocin causes partnered men to back away from other hot chicks.

Sci-fi/Fantasy Quote
“The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.” Chapter 1, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980) – by Douglas Adams

Announcements
Durban
Sceptics in the Pub – Thursday 15th November, 18:00. Pizetta
Pretoria
Sceptics in the Pub – Saturday 17th November, 12:30. Venue to be decided.
Johannesburg
Sceptics in the Park – Sunday 18th November, 13:00. Johannesburg Botanical Garden, Emmerentia
Rumble in the Pub – Thursday 22nd November, 18:30. Venue to be advised.
West Rand
Sceptics in the Pub – Wednesday 21st November, 19:00. Green & Gold Pub, Roodepoort
Want to tell us about an event we should announce on the show? Post it in the comments or on either of these social media sites:
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Link of the Week
Patrick: The Religion of Peace – Attacks
Owen: 10 Reasons Why Oxytocin is the Most Amazing Molecule in the World

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November 15, 2012 Consilience – Episode #63: Toenails for Rhinos, Grass-eating Hominins and Monogamy Hormones
The 63rd episode of Consilience is out! You can download the mp3 here (20mb) and the file’s page on Archive.org is here. Starring Owen Swart Patrick Till Teaching Angela to Appreciate History 1765 – Birth of Robert Fulton Jr, American inventor. Updates. Leo Igwe … Continue reading →
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November 01, 2012Consilience – Episode #62: Census Results, Population Explosions and a REAL Tractor Beam!
The Doctor will see you now.
The 62nd episode of Consilience is out! You can download the mp3 here (27mb) and the file’s page on Archive.org is here.
Starring
Owen Swart
Patrick Till
Deon Barnard

Teaching Angela to Appreciate History
1926 – The death of Harry Houdini.

Discussion
2011 South African Census Results
Whites earn 6 times more than blacks
Less than a third of South Africans have finished high school.
1.3 million households without piped water.
More TVs than fridges in SA households.
News
A working Star Trek tractor beam! Kinda!
“Einstein was not an atheist” – Some Idiot
Referenced quotes.
Black Mamba venom is good for you.
DNA analysis finds previously unknown human population explosion.

Sci-fi/Fantasy Quote
“We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.” – Douglas Adams.

Announcements
Johannesburg
Sceptics in the Pub – Wednesday 7th November, 19:00. Brazen Head Pub, Sandton
Rumble in the Pub – Thursday 8th November, Details TBA.
Sceptics in the Park – Sunday 18th November, 13:00. Johannesburg Botanical Garden, Emmerentia
East Rand
Sceptics in the Pub – Tuesday 13th November, 19:00. Grandslam Sports Diner, Edenvale.
West Rand
Sceptics in the Pub – Wednesday 21st November, 19:00. Green & Gold Pub, Roodepoort
Want to tell us about an event we should announce on the show? Post it in the comments or on either of these social media sies:
Google Group
Facebook Group
Link of the Week
Patrick: Sceptical Science – the climate change resource.Deon: Global Rich List
Owen: Rbutr

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November 01, 2012 Consilience – Episode #62: Census Results, Population Explosions and a REAL Tractor Beam!
The 62nd episode of Consilience is out! You can download the mp3 here (27mb) and the file’s page on Archive.org is here. Starring Owen Swart Patrick Till Deon Barnard Teaching Angela to Appreciate History 1926 – The death of Harry Houdini. Discussion 2011 South African … Continue reading →
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October 26, 2012Episode #61: Nobel Prizes, Meta-Analyses and a REAL Warp Drive This Time
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The 61st episode of Consilience is out! You can download the mp3 here (27mb) and the file’s page on Archive.org is here.
Starring
Owen Swart
Patrick Till
Deon Barnard
Chris Sham

Teaching Angela to Appreciate History
1851 – Discovery of Ariel and Umbriel, two moons of Uranus by William Lassel.
Lassel made his fortune with beer-brewing, giving him the freedom to build his own observatories (plural) at Liverpool and Malta, and construct his own telescopes (plural, large and heavily mechanised for their day).
Possibly also of interest: Latest telescope study of Uranus has revealed interesting and as-yet unexplained new features in its atmosphere.

Updates
Rational blog post about the Satanism murders nonsense.
News
Nobel prizes
Physics: Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland “for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems”
Chemistry: Robert J. Lefkowitz and Brian K. Kobilka “for studies of G-protein-coupled receptors”
Physiology or medicine: Sir John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka “for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent”
American politicians are dumb.
NASA really is working on a warp drive this time, and this one works on Dilithium Crystals.
(Andre Engelbrecht) Braais cause cancer
Proof that our bodies can predict the future with data input that doesn’t exist yet!
(Spoiler: It’s a meta-analysis)
Opening ad hominem: The lead author, Mossbridge, is an unapologetic spiritualist.
statistical means, but that’s no substitute for real data derived from properly varied sources.
The “researcher degrees of freedom” that Steve Novella has talked about a lot over the last year or so.
Paul Kurtz died.

Sci-fi/Fantasy Quote
“Damnit, Bones, you’re a doctor. You know that pain and guilt can’t be taken away with the wave of a magic wand.” – Capt. James T. Kirk, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

Announcements
Johannesburg
Rumble in the Pub – Thursday 25th October, 18:30. Primi Piatti, Rosebank
Sceptics in the Pub – Wednesday 7th November, 19:00. Brazen Head Pub, Sandton
Sceptics in the Park – Sunday 18th November, 13:00. Johannesburg Botanical Garden, Emmerentia
East Rand
Sceptics in the Pub – Tuesday 13th November, 19:00. Grandslam Sports Diner, Edenvale.
West Rand
Sceptics in the Pub – Wednesday 21st November, 19:00. Green & Gold Pub, Roodepoort

Link of the Week
Patrick: Richard Dawkins interview – Playboy
Deon: Belief-o-matic
Chris: William Rankin, The Man Who Rode The Thunder or better still, the book
Owen: If Only… – Tony Ballentyne

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October 26, 2012 Episode #61: Nobel Prizes, Meta-Analyses and a REAL Warp Drive This Time
The 61st episode of Consilience is out! You can download the mp3 here (27mb) and the file’s page on Archive.org is here. Starring Owen Swart Patrick Till Deon Barnard Chris Sham Teaching Angela to Appreciate History 1851 – Discovery of Ariel and Umbriel, two … Continue reading →
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September 20, 2012Episode #60: West African Witchery, New Monkeys and Warp Speed
Sad monkey is possibly delicious.
The 60th episode of Consilience is out! You can download the mp3 here (27mb) and the file’s page on Archive.org is here.
Starring
Owen Swart
Michael Meadon
Angela Meadon

Teaching Angela to Appreciate History
1961: First contact with an alien race.
Betty and Barney Hill, an American couple, claimed that they were abducted by aliens and experimented upon. Over the years, the Hills’ own stories have grown increasingly fabulous, as well as inspiring a cultural revolution in reports of alien abductions and similar encounters.
None of their claims have ever been substantiated, and sceptics, including Brian Dunning of the Skeptioid podcast, have managed to poke so many holes in the story there isn’t even anything left to hold the holes together.

News
Ghanaian witches are exiled to concentration camps.
Nigerian man used witchcraft to recruit children for his sex slavery trade.
New African monkey.
NASA Building Real-life Warp Drive.
Vulcan Suurok Class Cruiser.
Jesus was married.

Sci-fi/Fantasy Quote
“The only moral way to change someone’s mind – make them see the truth, as you put it – is to present evidence.” – Unnamed Alteran Dude, Stargate: The Ark of Truth

Announcements
Durban
Sceptics in the Pub: Thursday, 20th September, 18:00. Pizetta
Pretoria
Sceptics in the Pub: Saturday 22nd September, 12:30. Venue TBA
Cape Town
Sceptics in the Pub: Friday 28th September, 19:00. Beleza
Johannesburg
Sceptics in the Pub: Wednesday, 3 October, 19:00. Grandslam, Edenvale

Link of the Week
Michael – Josef Schmid, Flight Surgeon
Angela – Geological Time Scale for Creationists
Owen – How to Avoid the Natural Reactions that Prevent Good Decision Making

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FAQs about Consilience: An African Science Podcast:

How many episodes does Consilience: An African Science Podcast have?

The podcast currently has 15 episodes available.