TheESP – Ep. #444 – Happy Cucumbers

The European Skeptics Podcast - The ESP

With an episode number like this, we have to start out with some numerology. Annika will be more off than on for a while and the promised record heat in Sweden actually delivered. In TWISH we hear about the sci-fi / philosophical writer Stanisław Lem who was born this week in 1921. Then we head for the news:

• SWEDEN: Music makes cucumbers happy
• UK: Hereditary seats to be removed from Lords
• INTERNATIONAL: No link between mobile phones and brain tumours
• UK / INTERNATIONAL: Bach Flower Remedies for perceived stress of nurses

We hand out a Really Wrong Award to the Carl and Veronica Carstens Foundation for funding dubious research, and that should be the end – but wait! Brian Eggo crashes the party! He tells all about the upcoming Skepticamp at QED. Don’t miss out!

Enjoy!

Segments:

0:00:28 Intro

0:00:51 Greetings

0:06:43 TWISH

0:13:07 News

0:34:09 Really Wrong

0:39:47 Quote

0:40:53 Interview

0:46:23 Outro

0:47:38 Outtakes

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