Consilience – Episode #66: Learning to Grow Weed, Holy Water Stampeed and Nigeria Ruins It for the Rest of Us

Consilience: An African Science Podcast

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The 66th episode of Consilience is here! You can download the mp3 here (30mb) and the file’s page on Archive.org is here. Starring

• Owen Swart
• Patrick Till
• Chris Sham
• Suzanne Patterson

Teaching Angela to Appreciate History

• 1945: Operation Paperclip steps into high gear.

Guest Segments

• Patrick’s News Headlines
  • Climate change caused early humans to flourish.
  • Adverts target rhino horn consumers.
  • Local leader blames negligence in South Africa circumcision deaths.
  • Dubai police in new crackdown on ivory smuggling.
  • Lesotho, South Africa collaborate to develop $1.3bn hydro project.
  • Language and the two schools of thought.
• Soo’s “I learned on the Internet…”
  • growweedeasy.com

News

1. False rape claims usually aren’t
2. First case of polio reported in Somalia since 2007
3. Lethal stampede for magic water in Ghana

Announcements

1. Joburg
   1. Sceptics in the Park – Joburg. Sunday 26th May, 13:00. Johannesburg Botanical Gardens, Emmerentia.
   2. Rumble in the Pub – Joburg. Thursday 30th May, 18:30. Venue TBA.
   3. Sceptics in the Pub – Joburg. Wednesday 5th June, 19:00. Pizaevino, The Wedge, Morningside.
   4. Sceptics in the Pub – East Rand. Tuesday 11th June, 19:00. Grandslam Sports Diner, Edenvale.

Link of the week

Soo: Nemogould

Chris: Daniel Dennett’s seven tools for thinking

Patrick: News360

Owen: Kissing Hank’s Ass

https://archive.org/download/Consilience66/Consilience66.mp3