The Skeptic Zone #680 - 17.October.2021

<table border="0" summary="new show" width="100%" cellspacing="4" cellpadding="4"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top"><em>0:00:00</em> <div><strong>Introduction</strong><br /> Richard Saunders</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> <hr align="center" size="1" width="75%" /></td> </tr> <tr bgcolor="#F8F8FF"> <td valign="top"><em>0:04:40</em> <div><strong>Dr Karl Kruszelnicki - Part #1</strong><br /> <br /> Famed science communicator Dr Karl tells us about snipers, TikTok, Anti-Vaxers and the way in which social media companies pander to the advertising dollor.<br /> <br /> Dr Karl is an Australian science communicator and popularizer, who is known as an author, and as a science commentator on Australian radio and television. Dr Karl is the Julius Sumner Miller Fellow in the Science Foundation for Physics at the School of Physics, University of Sydney.<br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.drkarl.com/">http://www.drkarl.com</a><br /> <br /> <a href= "http://www.tiktok.com@drkarl/">http://www.tiktok.com@drkarl</a></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> <hr align="center" size="1" width="75%" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><em>0:31:52</em> <div><strong>The Book of Tim</strong><br /> <br /> Tim Mendham reads from the pages of 'The Skeptic' magazine, from Australian Skeptics. Sundry seekers after truth.<br /> <br /> <em>Vol 32 No 2 - September 2012<br /> <br /> <a href= "http://www.skeptics.com.au/">http://www.skeptics.com.au</a></em></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> <hr align="center" size="1" width="75%" /></td> </tr> <tr bgcolor="#F8F8FF"> <td valign="top"><em>0:31:52</em> <div><strong>Interview with Tim Mendham</strong><br /> <br /> Join Tim in the portable Skeptic Zone studio to chat about life in lockdown, predictions and the upcoming Skepticon 2021.</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> <hr align="center" size="1" width="75%" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><em>0:44:50</em> <div><strong>A Dive into a Trove</strong><br /> <br /> A wander through the decades of digitised Australian newspapers on a se