This Week’s Panel:
Eve Siebert — Editor and blogger at Skeptical Humanities
Bob Blaskiewicz — Committee for Skeptical Inquiry’s Conspiracy Guy web columnist, JREF Swift Blog contributor, and blogger for Skeptical Humanities
Sharon Hill — Editor of Doubtful News and author of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry’s Sounds Sciencey web column
Tim Farley — JREF Fellow, creator of whatstheharm.net and skeptools.com
Brian Gregory – Host
Eve’s links:
Doubtful News: Learn about Icelandic Elves at Álfaskólinn
http://doubtfulnews.com/2013/01/learn…
Atlas Obscura: Elf School
http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/al…
i09: Now you can learn about the fae at this slightly creepy “elf school” in Iceland
http://io9.com/5977869/now-you-can-le…
Go Nomad: In the land of the fairy king: Iceland’s Elf School
http://www.gonomad.com/features/0101/…
Kristin’s Camera: Iceland’s Elf School
http://www.kristinscamera.com/kristin…
Reykjavik Grapevine: To Be or Not To Be
http://www.grapevine.is/Features/Read…
Nat. Geo. Vid: Belief in elves strong in Iceland
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHvOei…
Sharon’s links:
Goblin beheaded in Zimbabwe, house explodes killing five
http://doubtfulnews.com/2013/01/gobli…
Tim’s links:
What’s the Harm just turned 5 years old, here’s the original announcement:
https://twitter.com/krelnik/status/62…
Monday was the 30th anniversary of James Randi’s Project Alpha press conference
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_…
Tomorrow is the 10th anniversary of the first TAM!
http://lanyrd.com/2003/tam/
Skepticality just hit 200 episodes this week!
http://www.skepticality.com/200-episo…
UK Skeptics are once again taking nominations for annual skeptic awards
http://www.skeptic.org.uk/
Brian’s Robot’s links:
OMG SPACE ROBOTS!
http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/0…
NASA | RRM: The Main Event
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLXDRU…
Announcements:
The Skeptics for the Protection of Cancer Patients passed $14,000 in donations to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
Sharon on next episode of Binnall of America and on Parascience Journal (on Tuesday 7-9)
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