The Skeptic Zone #688 - 12.December.2021

<table border="0" summary="new show" width="100%" cellspacing="4" cellpadding="4"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top"> <hr align="center" size="1" width="75%" /></td> </tr> <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>0:03:45</em> <div><strong>The Ockham Awards</strong><br /> <br /> We talk to <strong>Michael Marshall</strong> from the UK about the recent Ockham Awards.<br /> <br /> Michael is the project director of the Good Thinking Society and president of the Merseyside Skeptics Society.<br /> <br /> <a href= "https://www.skeptic.org.uk/">https://www.skeptic.org.uk</a></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> <hr align="center" size="1" width="75%" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><em>0:18:20</em> <div><strong>The Book of Tim</strong><br /> <br /> <strong>Tim Mendham</strong> calls in to give us an overview of what to expect in the new addition of 'The Skeptic' the journal from Australian Skeptics.<br /> <br /> <a href= "http://www.skeptics.com.au/">http://www.skeptics.com.au</a></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> <hr align="center" size="1" width="75%" /></td> </tr> <tr bgcolor="#F8F8FF"> <td valign="top"><em>0:31:06</em> <div><strong>A Dive into a Trove</strong><br /> <br /> A wander through the decades of digitised Australian newspapers on a search for references to "Seances".<br /> <br /> <a href= "http://www.trove.nla.gov.au/">http://www.trove.nla.gov.au</a><br /> <br /> <a href= "https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-468508573/view?partId=nla.obj-468562297#page/n3/mode/1up"> https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-468508573/view?partId=nla.obj-468562297#page/n3/mode/1up</a></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> <hr align="center" size="1" width="75%" /></td> </tr> <tr bgcolor="#FEF9E7"> <td><em>Also</em> <div><strong>Corona Conspiracy - Upload Images<br /> <br /> <a href= "https://coronaconspiracy.cloud/">https://coronaconspiracy.c