The Skeptic Zone

The Skeptic Zone #696 - 6.February.2022


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0:00:00 Introduction Richard Saunders 0:03:09 You Can Count on Adrienne This week Adrienne looks at the mystical and mysterious meanings behind the number 7. Is 7 good luck, bad luck, out of luck, lucky duck, or none of the above? What does numerology have to say about your personality? 0:14:29 An Award for Susan Gerbic CSI awards the Robert P. Balles Annual Prize in Critical Thinking annually. The $2,500 award is given to the "creator of the published work that best exemplifies healthy skepticism, logical analysis, or empirical science." Also Susan and the trivia crew try their luck at predicting the roll of a six sided die. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_for_Skeptical_Inquiry#Robert_P._Balles_Prize 0:24:17 A Dive into a Trove A wander through the decades of digitised Australian newspapers on a search for references to "Spoon Bending Kids from the 1970s". 1976.01.04 - The Santa Ana Register http://www.trove.nla.gov.au Also Richard Saunders on the radio to talk about the Great Australian Psychic Prediction Project. https://www.4bc.com.au/podcast/australian-skeptics-release-the-results-of-its-great-australian-psychic-prediction-project
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