The ESP – Ep. #329 – Don’t be afraid of the light!

An unusually short episode this week brought to you by Annika and András, featuring the first record of a ball-lightning observation in the English speaking world from 1195 AD, then we talk about a prison sentence over a fake diagnostic tool in Germany. And of course, we finish on a fitting quote from Plato.

Enjoy!

Segments: Intro; Greetings; TWISH; News; Quote And Farewell; Outro

0:00:35 INTRO

0:00:50 GREETINGS

0:03:57 TWISH – THIS WEEK IN SKEPTICAL HISTORY

• June 7 1195 – the first sighting of a ball lighting in England
  • https://theconversation.com/first-english-sighting-of-ball-lightning-a-12th-century-monks-chronicle-reveals-all-174837
  • https://earthsky.org/earth/ball-lightning-lightning-atmosphere-earth-optik/

0:09:21 NEWS

• GERMANY: Prison sentence for useless bioscan devices from Pliezhausen
  • https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/baden-wuerttemberg/tuebingen/haft-und-geld-strafen-bioscan-betrug-amtsgericht-reutlingen-100.html

0:14:37 QUOTE AND FAREWELL

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
/Plato, born 428, died 348 BC/

0:15:50 OUTRO