Category Archives: Episodes
Episode 125 – 2nd March 2012
There might not be any faster than light neutrinos, but what can we learn from a failed experiment? Might Iran embracing science be a good thing? And what’s life like in the armed forces for a non-believer? We find out in this week’s show!
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Failed Experiments (2:26) by Drew Rae
Nuclear Iran (8:41) by David Eastman
AVN vs HCCC (12:23) by Andrew Gould
In The Navy (17:35) by Blakeley Nixon (ft Commander John Craig)
Skeptical Fairy Tales (30:50) by Liz Lutgendorff (ft Stuart Taylor)
Maglev Trains (40:50) by Tom Hodden
Videogames as Art? (46:56) by Alex Fitch
The sketch at the end is by David Lovesy and Brian Two
Follow-Up Links:
Episode 124 – 24th February 2012
This week we find out about the counter campaign to the awful Coalition For Marriage, discover how religious extremists are targeting university campuses to recruit students, find out if the government’s new alcohol advice stands up to scrutiny and reminisce about 2000AD at 25. We also come closer to answering the age-old question… are the colours we perceive the same as the colours other people do?
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Coalition for Equal Marriage (2:50) by James O’Malley (ft Conor Marron)
Extremism on Campus (11:48) by James O’Malley (ft Raheem Kassam)
Leading Faiths (25:36) by Drew Rae
Alcohol Limits (29:20) by Adam Jacobs
Bad Valentines PR (37:25) by Marsh
2000AD at 35 (43:28) by Tom Hodden
Lottolab (50:40) by James O’Malley (ft David Robertson)
The sketch at the end is by David Lovesy and Brian Two
Follow-Up Links:
- Coalition for Equal Marriage – make sure you sign their petition!
- Student Rights
- Science Museum Lates
Episode 123 – 17th February 2012
This week is a bit of a secularism special – punch your fist in the air at the Rally to Defend Freedom of Expression, find out about the perils of censorship in Nick Cohen’s new book and get the accurate story on the Bideford council prayers ruling. Plus we talk about a new survey showing Christians aren’t terribly Christian, find out why Alan Turing deserves a pardon and solve the mystery of which Sherlock Holmes adaption is best.
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Rally to defend Freedom of Expression (2:40) by James O’Malley & Liz Lutgendorff
(ft Richard Dawkins, Nick Doody, Kate Smurthwaite, Rhys Morgan, Joan Smith and Anne-Marie Waters)
Nick Cohen Interview (18:10) by Liz Lutgendorff & James O’Malley
Census Christians (28:54) by James O’Malley (ft Paula Kirby)
Bideford Council (37:35) by Liz Lutgendorff (ft Tessa Kendall)
Turing Pardon (45:00) by Peter Rowlett
Sherlock and Copyright (54:56) by Tom Hodden
The sketch at the end is by David Lovesy & Brian Two
Follow-Up Links
- Listen to the rally to defend free expression in full here.
- One Law For All
- Full Nick Cohen interview:
(Check back in the morning!) - Buy Nick Cohen’s ‘You Can’t Read This Book’ here.
- Full Paula Kirby Interview:
- RDFRS Survey Results & Data
- National Secular Society
- Alan Turing Links
Pod Delusion Extra
- CineSci6 – Memento
- Westminster Skeptics – David Allen Green on Privacy
- Darwin Day Lecture 2012 with Adam Rutherford & Steve Jones
- Martin Robbins on Bad Science in the Developing World
- Julian Huppert on LibDem Science Policy in full
Episode 122 – 10th February 2012
This week we explore UN reform with a former ambassador to the United Nations, get the latest on the Twitter Joke Trial, build a moon base and keep filibustering to pass the time.
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UN Reform (2:25) by James O’Malley (ft Sir Jeremy Greenstock)
Twitter Joke Trial Appeal (12:36) by Carl Gardner (ft David Allen Green)
Moon Bases (16:56) by Alex Fitch
Women’s History Month (25:53) by Jessica Metheringham-Owlett
Filibustering (30:41) by Craig Lucas (ft Christopher Chope)
Challenge Sally (38:40) by Tom Williamson (ft Michael Marshall)
Electric Lullaby (47:15) by Sarah Angliss
Women’s History Month:
Sarah’s Links:
- Spacedog’s Bandcamp page where you can hear the Electric Lullaby in full
- See Sarah at Brighton Science Festival
- See Sarah at QEDCon next month!
- More on Electric Lullaby
Episode 121 – 3rd February 2012
This week we catch up with a conference on blasphemy, find out the problems with the welfare reforms, and the LADS have loads of BANTER about that awful “UniLad” article.
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CFI Blasphemy Conference (2:04) by James O’Malley & Liz Lutgendorff
(ft Andrew Copson, Austin Dacey and Maryam Namazie)
Welfare Reform (15:17) by Steven Sumpter
UniLad (25:44) by Dean Burnett
Deaths in Custody (34:52) by Georgia Gale Grant
Nuclear Theatre (41:27) by Liz Lutgendorff (ft Nicholas Kent)
The sketch at the end is by David Lovesy & Brian Two
- The Future of Blasphemy by Austin Dacey
- Rally to defend free expression
- Listen to podcasts from the CFI Blasphemy Conference here
- Deaths in custody stats
- The Tricycle goes nuclear
- Liz’s full interview with Nicholas Kent:
Episode 120 – 27th January 2012
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New Douglas Adams Audio (1:51) by Jon Treadway (ft Stephen Fry, Mark Carwardine and Douglas Adams)
Julian Huppert on LibDem Science Policy (11:56) by James O’Malley & Liz Lutgendorff
Jesus & Mo at the LSE (23:45) by James O’Malley (ft Chris Moos)
Adam Rutherford Interview (31:26) by Liz Lutgendorff
Technological Progress (40:58) by Drew Rae
My Little Brony (50:00) by Salim Fadhley (ft Coder Brony)
The sketch at the end is by David Lovesy and Brian Two
Follow-Up Links
Douglas Adams Links:
- Douglas Adams: The Party at Hammersmith Apollo
- Save The Rhino
- Douglas Adams Animation Competition
- Listen to our Douglas Adams tribute documentary here
Other Links:
- Preparing the Ground: The new LibDem digital policy
- To contribute to Julian Huppert’s LibDem science policy, e-mail: libdemsciencepolicy@gmail.com
- BHA Darwin Day lecture with Adam Rutherford
- Brony Herd Census
Episode 119 – 20th January 2012
This week we look into the SOPA blackout and more importantly, finally DISCOVER THE TRUTH about the Teletubbie Tinky Winky – plus much more!
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SOPA Blackout (2:05) by Georgia Gale Grant
Behind the scenes at the Wikipedia blackout (9:33) by Tom Morris
Figshare (17:58) by Jon Treadway (ft Mark Hahnel)
Teletubbies Scandal (27:36) by Salim Fadhley (ft Dave Thompson)
The Sex Party (39:33) by Chris Huang-Lever
Scotland and Tory England (45:17) by Keir Liddle
A Bugs’ Life (50:16) by Adam Jacobs (ft Matt Shardlow)
Videogames and Morality (60:16) by Trent Burton
The sketch at the end is by David Lovesy and Brian Two
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Follow-Up Links:
- Figshare
- The Sex Life of a Comedian by Dave Thompson
- Dave Thompson’s website
- Chris’s full interview with Fiona Patten:
Georgia’s SOPA Links:
- Pirates at Sony and Fox
- Khan Academy Explains SOPA
- Reddit’s technical examination of SOPA
- CDT on SOPA
- A day without PZ Myers
- xkcd on SOPA
Adam’s neonicotinoids links:
- Adam’s Interview in full:
- The PLoS One paper on neonicotinoids
- The review of neonicotinoids by Kindemba, commissioned by Buglife in 2009
- Cresswell 2010
- Interaction between Nosema infection and neonicotinoids in bees
- Bug Life
Episode 118 – 13th January 2012
This week we talk to the man behind Jesus & Mo, read the Spartacus Report and get word from the key players in the so-called “Obscenity Trial”.
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Jesus, Mo and UCL (2:13) by James O’Malley (ft Dave, the guy behind Jesus & Mo!)
Spartacus Report (9:36) by Steven Sumpter
Obscenity Trial (21:10) by David Allen Green (ft Myles Jackman and Michael Peacock)
Wind Farms (24:22) by Pete Hague
The LHC is valuable (33:40) by Kash Farooq, Peter Silk & George Hrab
Death Penalty & Assisted Dying (40:44) by Sean Ellis
Christian Nightmares (47:16) by Salim Fadhley (ft Christian Nightmares guy)
Follow-Up Links:
- Jesus and Mo
- Jesus and Mo books
- The Spartacus Report
- Civitas Windfarms Report
- Pete’s Civitas Blog
- Merrill Womach
- “20 minutes to go”
Episode 117 – 6th January 2012
Is legalising assisted dying a good idea? Should we use primaries to pick our political candidates? And since when was the Daily Mail judge, jury and executioner?
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Daily Mail Justice (1:58) by Martin Robbins
Hungary for Constitutional Change (7:45) by Dave Landon Cole
Open Primaries (14:08) by Cory Hazlehurst
Pro-Assisted Dying (22:16) by Jennie Kermode (performed by Melinda Burton)
Anti-Assisted Dying (33:21) by William Lee
The Cost of Physics (40:38) by Adam Jacobs
Apocalypse Soon? (50:06) by Leila Johnston
Just World (60:29) by Dean Burnett
Blogger of the Year (67:02) by David Allen Green
Follow-Up Links:
- William Lee’s Assisted Dying Survey of Doctors
- Review of similar surveys
- Survey of medical students
- Falconer Report
- 2005 House of Lords Report
Congratulations to Tim Ireland as Bloggerheads is our blog of the year 2011!
Hitchmas Special – 26th December 2011
Rather than celebrate Christmas, we thought we should probably celebrate the life and work of Christopher Hitchens, who died on the 15th December. So please join us for this very Pod Delusion-type look at his life.
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Obit (0:49) by Dave Cole
Hitch and religion (8:40) by Cory Hazlehurst
Hitch the Historian (15:46) by Rich Godbehere 6:36
Post-9/11 Hitch (23:42) by Mohammed Fahad (read by Alex Foster) 5:36
Regime change? (30:03) by David Eastman 4:14
Twitter Censorship? (35:40) by Dave Cross 6:12
Tweet inserts are by Sean Ellis
Music by Milton Mermikidies
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