This week on Virtual Skeptics
- Bob becomes the Mahatma of Hugs;
- Eve is moving to a teeny-tiny highrise on Mars;
- Sharon decides everything in the news is a load of crap.
- and Tim is here.
Host Brian Gregory, with
Bob Blaskiewicz – CSI’s Conspiracy Guy web columnist, blogger for Skeptical Humanities and Swift Blog contributor
Eve Siebert – Editor and blogger at Skeptical Humanities
Sharon Hill – Editor of Doubtful News and author of the CSI’s Sounds Sciencey web column
Tim Farley – JREF fellow and creator of What’s the Harm.net and the Skeptical Software Tools blog
Special Guest: Sara Mayhew – Skeptical Mangaka, creator of “Legend of the Ztarr”, TED Fellow, and writer of the “There Are Four Lights” blog.
Brian: This week in the Robot Apocalypse: Special Edition!
Headless Kenshiro muscle-bot gets ripped at the gym
Bob’s links:
About TED:
http://www.ted.com/pages/about
Who Owns TED:
http://www.ted.com/pages/42
The Original Reddit Post:
http://www.reddit.com/r/tedtalks/comments/1443ke/the_ted_name_is_being_dragged_through_the_mud_in/
The original failed TEDx lineup (en espanol):
http://tedxvalenciawomen.com/category/ponentes-2012/
Response of the TED organizers:
http://blog.tedx.com/post/37405280671/a-letter-to-the-tedx-community-on-tedx-and-bad-science
Organize a TEDx event:
http://www.ted.com/pages/organize_tedx_event
TEDx Rules for Speakers:
http://www.ted.com/pages/view/id/493#speakers
Eve’s links:
Enterprise Mission: Apartments on Mars
http://www.enterprisemission.com/apartmentsonmars.html
Enterprise Mission: Mars Apartments
http://www.enterprisemission.com/marsapartments.html
NASA/JPL photo of “apartments”
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/msss/00113/mcam/0113MR0696001000E1_DXXX.jpg
The Emoluments of Mars: Hoagland confused about everything, including his own copyright
http://dorkmission.blogspot.com/2012/12/hoagland-confused-about-everything.html
Sharon’s links:
Unbelizeable!
http://doubtfulnews.com/2012/12/its-crystal-clear-this-claim-is-unbelizeable/
Fake IQ study
http://doubtfulnews.com/2012/12/fox-news-iq-study-hoax-exposed/
December Doomsdate
http://doubtfulnews.com/2012/12/december-doomsdate-hyped-with-nonsense/
Country booming!
http://doubtfulnews.com/2012/12/the-country-is-booming-with-the-upcoming-doomsdate/
Ultrasonic doesn’t work on bedbugs or skeeters
12-12-12 computer chaos (not)
http://doubtfulnews.com/2012/12/astrologer-says-12-12-12-spells-chaos-dont-fret/
Tim’s links:
Tim is speaking at SkepTech next April 5 and 6
http://www.skep-tech.com/
Dead people are using Facebook from beyond the grave!
http://readwrite.com/2012/12/11/why-are-dead-people-liking-stuff-on-facebook
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