Consilience – Episode #65: Malagasy Locusts, Cellphone Losers and Dirty Hippie Stoners

Consilience: An African Science Podcast

‘Let my people go.”

The 65th episode of Consilience is here! You can download the mp3 here (19mb) and the file’s page on Archive.org is here.

Starring

• Owen Swart
• Patrick Till
• Chris Sham

Teaching Angela to Appreciate History

• 1796 – Edward Jenner administers the first successful smallpox vaccine.

News

1. Locust plague in Madagascar
2. Dementia striking more people, earlier
3. San Francisco morons lose cellphone case.
4. A new trick for spotting exo-planets works

Sci-fi/Fantasy Quote

“Speculation is not evidence.”
– Lt.Cdr Tuvok, Star Trek: Voyager, S6e09 “The Voyager Conspiracy”

Announcements

1. Joburg
   1. Sceptics in the Pub – West Rand. Wednesday 15th May, 18:00. Green & Gold pub, Roodepoort.
   2. Rumble in the Pub – Midrand. Thursday 16th May, 18:30. Dros, New Rd.
   3. Sceptics in the Pub – Joburg. Wednesday 5th June, 19:00. Pizaevino, The Wedge, Morningside.
2. Durban
   1. Sceptics in the Pub. Thursday 16th of May, 18:00. Pizetta.

Link of the week

Chris: The Planetary Society

Patrick: Google Drive

Owen: StarTalk Radio

http://archive.org/download/Consilience65/Consilience65.mp3