Consilience: An African Science Podcast

Consilience – Episode #66: Learning to Grow Weed, Holy Water Stampeed and Nigeria Ruins It for the Rest of Us

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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

            1. False rape claims usually aren’t
            2. First case of polio reported in Somalia since 2007
            3. Lethal stampede for magic water in Ghana

              4. Announcements

              1. Joburg
                1. Sceptics in the Park – Joburg. Sunday 26th May, 13:00. Johannesburg Botanical Gardens, Emmerentia.
                2. Rumble in the Pub – Joburg. Thursday 30th May, 18:30. Venue TBA.
                3. Sceptics in the Pub – Joburg. Wednesday 5th June, 19:00. Pizaevino, The Wedge, Morningside.
                4. Sceptics in the Pub – East Rand. Tuesday 11th June, 19:00. Grandslam Sports Diner, Edenvale.

                  5. Link of the week

                  Soo: Nemogould

                  Chris: Daniel Dennett’s seven tools for thinking

                  Patrick: News360

                  Owen: Kissing Hank’s Ass

                  https://archive.org/download/Consilience66/Consilience66.mp3

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