TheESP – Ep. #444 – Happy Cucumbers

With an episode number like this, we have to start out with some numerology. Annika will be more off than on for a while and the promised record heat in Sweden actually delivered. In TWISH we hear about the sci-fi / philosophical writer Stanisław Lem who was born this week in 1921. Then we head for the news: SWEDEN: Music makes cucumbers happy UK: Hereditary seats to be removed from Lords INTERNATIONAL: No link between mobile phones and brain tumours UK / INTERNATIONAL: Bach Flower Remedies for perceived stress of nurses We hand out a Really Wrong Award to the Carl and Veronica Carstens Foundation for funding dubious research, and that should be the end – but wait! Brian Eggo crashes the party! He tells all about the upcoming Skepticamp at QED. Don’t miss out! Enjoy! Segments: 0:00:28 Intro 0:00:51 Greetings 0:06:43 TWISH 0:13:07 News 0:34:09 Really Wrong 0:39:47 Quote 0:40:53 Interview 0:46:23 Outro 0:47:38 Outtakes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.