We start our episode with Editor-in-Chief of The Skeptic magazine, Deborah Hyde, who tells us about this year’s Ockham Awards that will be happening at QED: Question. Explore. Discover in October 2017, the nominations for which are still open.
Our main guest on this episode was Sue Blackmore, another great speaker presentingat the European Skpetics Congress in Wroclaw in September 2018. She is is a British writer, lecturer, sceptic, broadcaster, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Plymouth. Her fields of research include memes memes, evolutionary theory evolutionary theory, psychology, parapsychology, consciousness, and she is best known for her book The Meme Machine. She has written or contributed to over 40 books and 60 scholarly articles and is a contributor to The Guardian newspaper.
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Segments
Intro; Greetings & Feedback; Interview with Susan Blackmore; Farewell; Outro
Show notes:
00:00:08
INTRO music
00:00:35
Greetings & feedback
There is still time to vote for Ockham Awards 2017. Visit this link to nominate your favourite skeptics activist/podcast/project: https://www.skeptic.org.uk/ockham-awards-2017/vote/
Please visit our ‘Events in Europe’ page to see what’s going on across the continent in skepticism.
00:11:57
Interview with Susan Blackmore
00:51:34
Farewell
Please support “About time tour” with Andras, Susan Gerbic, Mark Edwards and Liubomir Baburov, who are embarking on the exciting European skeptic tour. If you have couple of pounds/dollars/rubli spare please contribute by following this link: https://fundly.com/about-time-tour-skeptical-networking-across-europe
00:58:11
Outro
00:59:27
Outtakes