Episode 57: Ghosts and Apparitions, Part 1

Episode 57: Ghosts and Apparitions, Part 1

In this episode of Life, the Universe & Everything Else, Gem Newman swaps ghost stories with Greg Christensen, Ian Leung, and Mark Forkheim. Also on this episode, Gem chats with PZ Myers about religion, skepticism, and the supernatural.

Life, the Universe & Everything Else is a program promoting secular humanism and scientific skepticism presented by the Winnipeg Skeptics and the Humanists, Atheists & Agnostics of Manitoba.

Links: Solstice Party (22 June 2013) | Drinking Skeptically (11 June 2013) | Ghost of Carl Sagan Warns Against Dangers of Superstition | Dualism | Sleep Paralysis | Apophenia | Pareidolia | Pharyngula | PZ Myers and Steven Novella on Atheism and Skepticism (PZ, Novella, PZ, Novella) | The Happy Atheist, by PZ Myers

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Episode 56: The “Atheist Agenda”

Episode 56: The “Atheist Agenda”

In this episode of Life, the Universe & Everything Else, Donna Harris is joined by Richelle McCullough, Robert Shindler, Greg Christensen, and Jeffrey Olsson to discuss the so-called “Atheist Agenda” and how it relates to what atheists actually want.

Life, the Universe & Everything Else is a program promoting secular humanism and scientific skepticism presented by the Winnipeg Skeptics and the Humanists, Atheists & Agnostics of Manitoba.

Links: @SkepticAction on Twitter | HAAM Meeting on May 11^th | Drinking Skeptically on May 14^th | The Atheist Agenda on Conservapedia | What is the “atheist agenda”? | Atheist Door Knockers | Studying science doesn’t make you an atheist… but studying literature does!

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Episode 55: Day at the Museum (Rawr!)

Episode 55: Day at the Museum (Rawr!)

On this road trip edition of Life, the Universe & Everything Else, Greg Christensen, Richelle McCullough, and Robert Shindler visit Alberta’s Royal Tyrrell Museum and spend the afternoon with research scientist Dr. David Eberth, who takes them on a special behind-the-scenes tour of the museum. The entire LUEE crew would like to extend heartfelt thanks to the Tyrrell Museum and especially to Dr. Eberth for this wonderful opportunity.

Life, the Universe & Everything Else is a program promoting secular humanism and scientific skepticism presented by the Winnipeg Skeptics and the Humanists, Atheists & Agnostics of Manitoba.

Links: The Royal Tyrrell Museum | Dr. David Eberth | Dr. Eberth at Imagine No Religion 2: “Evolution vs. Creationism: Why won’t it go away?” | Dr. Ian Plimer Debates Dr. Duane Gish

Clarification: Explanation of the Global Temperature “800 Year Lag” (Potholer on YouTube, Skeptical Science)

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Episode 54: Saturday Morning Interview with Zach Weinersmith

Episode 54: Saturday Morning Interview with Zach Weinersmith

In this bonus episode of Life, the Universe & Everything Else, Gem talks with Zach Weinersmith of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal about science, art, censorship, and dirty jokes.

Life, the Universe & Everything Else is a program promoting secular humanism and scientific skepticism presented by the Winnipeg Skeptics and the Humanists, Atheists & Agnostics of Manitoba.

Links: The Festival of Bad Ad Hoc Hypotheses | The Cross-Canada Skeptical Smackdown (Winnipeg, Other Events) | Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal | The Weekly Weinersmith Podcast | Trial of the Clone (Book, Android App) | CCA | MPAA | Orson Scott Card’s Controversial Superman Story Put on Hold | Ann Veronica, by H.G. Wells | The Agricultural Contradiction of Obesity, by Michael Pollan

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Episode 53: HIV/AIDS Denial

Episode 53: HIV/AIDS Denial

In this episode of Life, the Universe & Everything Else, Ashlyn Noble, Laura Creek Newman, and Gem Newman discuss the pseudoscientific belief that AIDS is not caused by HIV. Also on this episode, Ashlyn interviews Susan Gerbic of the Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia project.

Life, the Universe & Everything Else is a program promoting secular humanism and scientific skepticism presented by the Winnipeg Skeptics and the Humanists, Atheists & Agnostics of Manitoba.

Links: HIV/AIDS Denialism | Opportunistic Infection | Peter Duesberg | Thabo Mbeki | Koch’s Postulates | Matthias Rath: Steal This Chapter (from Ben Goldacre’s Bad Science) | Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia

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