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Flying unicorns exist in Portugal and you can vote for your favorites on the Portuguese Skeptics' web site (COMCEPT) before 1 April. By coincidence this is also the deadline for getting the Early Bird discount for the European Skeptics Congress in Lyon, so sign up in time! On a sadder note, Annika will have to take a few months off from the podcast, but she promises to return in June. But before that, we have a whole lot of news to go through:INTERNATIONAL: AI will increase energy use and climate misinformationINTERNATIONAL: Is rapamycin a cure for old age?GERMANY: Arson attacks against Tesla Giga factory driven by misconceptions regarding electromobilityUK: Helpline for people leaving faithINTERNATIONAL: Are there any benefits to the Wim Hof method?UK: London Eye moving to Scotland?For a change we have a Really Weird Award to hand out – the man who got hundreds of covid shots just to be on the safe side (we suppose). Luckily he seems to be OK.Enjoy!Segments: Intro; Greetings; TWISH; News; Really Weird; Quote and Farewell; Outro; Out-Takes0:00:27 Intro0:00:52 Greetings0:12:42 TWISH0:22:23 News0:49:49 Really Weird0:56:34 Quote and Farewell1:00:51 Outro1:02:06 Out-takes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

David Marçal vira as páginas da ciência com histórias e explicações que se debruçam sobre a origem da vida, o pensamento moderno, a interpretação da natureza e a interação entre as disciplinas científicas: como se relacionam entre si e como é possível que, nessa relação, se gere poesia e beleza. Aconteceu em Aljezur, no dia 6 de Junho de 2021. BIOGRAFIA David Marçal. Doutorado pela Universidade Nova de Lisboa (2008). Bioquímico e comunicador de ciência. Em co-autoria com Carlos Fiolhais, assinou na Gradiva os livros Darwin aos Tiros e Outras Histórias de Ciência e Pipocas com Telemóvel e Outras Histórias de Falsa Ciência, A Ciência e os seus Inimigos e Apanhados pelo Vírus. É também autor de duas obras publicadas pela Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos, Pseudociência e Cientistas Portugueses. Escreveu centenas de artigos na comunicação social, espectáculos e vários programas de televisão sobre ciência. Ensina comunicação de ciência na Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Foi distinguido com os prémios Químicos Jovens (da Sociedade Portuguesa de Química), Ideias Verdes (da Fundação Luso e do jornal Expresso) e COMCEPT (da Comunidade Céptica Portuguesa).

A caminhada de David Marçal é um jogo entre fórmulas e lendas, uma visão sobre a humanidade enquanto esta parte curiosa do Universo que tem a capacidade de se conhecer a si própria. Aconteceu em Aljezur, a 6 de Junho de 2021. BIOGRAFIA David Marçal. Doutorado pela Universidade Nova de Lisboa (2008). Bioquímico e comunicador de ciência. Em co-autoria com Carlos Fiolhais, assinou na Gradiva os livros Darwin aos Tiros e Outras Histórias de Ciência e Pipocas com Telemóvel e Outras Histórias de Falsa Ciência, A Ciência e os seus Inimigos e Apanhados pelo Vírus. É também autor de duas obras publicadas pela Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos, Pseudociência e Cientistas Portugueses. Escreveu centenas de artigos na comunicação social, espectáculos e vários programas de televisão sobre ciência. Ensina comunicação de ciência na Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Foi distinguido com os prémios Químicos Jovens (da Sociedade Portuguesa de Química), Ideias Verdes (da Fundação Luso e do jornal Expresso) e COMCEPT (da Comunidade Céptica Portuguesa).

This week on the podcast, we're adding one of the most infamous games from the 2010s on to the Endless List: It's Mighty No. 9. This game developed by Comcept with the help of Inti Creates and led by Keiji Inafune tried to bring back the Mega Man style of action platform type games. It failed. Miserably. And we're here to talk about it. Where did it land on the Endless List? Find out on the podcast or check out the complete rankings (linked here).

This week we first continue to ponder the strange topic of language and we congratulate the Portuguese Skeptics on the anniversary of founding their organization ComCept. Then we have a Covid-19 update before we dig into the news: Analysis of excess mortality in Europe in 2020 NEW BOOK: Missing Minimum Distance Spooky Martian spider shapes explained First helicopter on another planet to go on first mission soon The 2020 Flying Unicorn Award goes to… Doctors for Truth (Nominations open for 2021) Nominations for the 2021 Maddox Prize now open The success story of pharmacy students bringing vaccine science to classrooms The veterinarian Geert Vanden Bossche gets a Really Wrong for discrediting covid-vaccines using pseudoscientific misinformation. Enjoy! Segments: Intro; Greetings; This Week; Covid-19 Update; News; Really Wrong; Quote and Farewell; Outro; Out-takes The Events Calendar: https://theesp.eu/events_in_europe

This week we discuss the Notre-Dame fire before we celebrate this week's icon, the Hungarian astronomer and skeptic Iván Almár. The Measles epidemic is getting even worse with the WHO showing a 300% global increase so far this year, Metabiota has launched a new website for tracking epidemics, Anthroposophs claim to be for vaccinations but they're really not and the Hungarian government wants to control Facebook. Also, the “Finns party” switches to a new conspiracy theory when the old one is not attractive enough, MMR vaccine does NOT cause diabetes and Brussels thinks 5G testing is using people as Guinea pigs. We learn (again) that stop eating sugar does not cure cancer and we give a shout out to Portuguese skeptics ComCept that are now on Patreon. We close the show by saluting one of the champions of keeping the Internet a little bit saner: Snopes.com

This week our three hosts discuss a great number of things including how a delusional German physician got away with killing people, and how Pope Francis thinks right to tackle poverty. Loads of good news this week: The John Maddox Prize goes to Britt Hermes and Terry Hughes this year, ARP-SAPC reaches 20 years of activity, the Spanish government moves against pseudo-therapies in health care, the BBC upholds the Good Thinking Society's complaint about a homeopathy-related phone-in and ComCept awards journalist Vera Novais for advocating science as opposed to nonsense. Also, on the less positive side, we report on child marriages no longer being recognised in Sweden, no matter what the culture of the country of origin is, authors of a paper based on a national survey into CAM use in the UK suggest NHS funding for bogus therapies and christian parents threatening legal action for something that wasn't what it looked like. And the Norwegian Labour Party gets this week's Really Right prize for suggesting the revoking of VAT excemption for alternative medicinal practices.

This is the 2nd part of my conversation with Diana Barbosa from COMCEPT, the Portuguese Skeptics Community (find the 1st episode here). In the first part of the episode we got an overview over scientific skepticism and what kinds of topics they would usually discuss. In a nutshell, skeptics are fighting against non-scientific viewpoints making their ways into mainstream opinion. Now we talk a bit more in detail about creationism, nuclear power in the context of climate action, and alternative medicine: Religion in and of itself is not necessarily a scientific topic, because religion and science don’t deal with the same fundamental questions. Where religion focuses on spirituality, science tries to explore and understand the natural world. However there are instances where religious writings make statements about the natural world and this is where things become problematic. Creationism is the believe, that all life was created by one or the other deity. And we talk about creationists that believe that there is a contradiction between their religious dogma, and the theory of evolution, and abiogenesis - the theory that life emerged from non-living organic material, popularly named the primordial soup. In the view of Creationists, accepting the Theory of Evolution is equivalent to denying their deity’s existence, which of course, they find unacceptable. In several countries there are influential creationist groups that are trying to change how evolution is taught in schools, and to insert ‘inteligent design’, a pseudoscientific version of creationism, into the science classes. Then we talk about denial of scientific evidence in environmentalist groups. A recent hot topic is, of course, the fight against climate change. There is an ongoing debate over the question, how we can reduce carbon dioxide emissions in power production. Diana suggests that in contrast to the opinions of environmentalist groups, nuclear power is a viable option. In the final part, we talk about "alternative medicine". It appears that this lobby is strong enough to avoid being outlawed to begin with. Instead, Portugal recently decided to regulate these "professions". They now require formal training in actual medicine. While this sounds like a good approach, in reality this gives anti-scientific practices legitimacy. And universities are now offering formal degrees in alternative medicine, further legitimizing these practices in the public eye. This is why Diana and COMCEPT are against the current regulation.

I had an extended conversation with Diana Barbosa (@diraquel on Twitter) from the skeptical society in Portugal, COMCEPT. This is the first of two parts to this episode where Diana Barbosa answers questions about what skepticism is, what skepticism is NOT, and how it is different from other, related movements. We get an overview of the goals and activities of COMCEPT meetings, and how to become a member! Being skeptical means to be doubtful. Scientific Skepticism, however, isn't simply doubtful of everything. The skeptic can be convinced by scientific evidence. Having started mainly as a movement to overcome superstition, such as the believe in the supernatural, modern skeptical societies deal with various forms of evidence denial in the public realm. COMCEPT addresses these topics in an educational way. They prefer informing the public over debating evidence denying individuals and groups. Diana and her colleagues founded COMCEPT six years ago and have grown to almost 30 members since. However, they have thousands of followers on their facebook presence. At their monthly meetings, which alternate between Lisbon and Porto, COMCEPT discusses relevant topics of the day. It's a flexible format: sometimes they watched a documentary or movie, and sometimes they invite experts to their conversations. They further have an annual convention, and published a book (in Portuguese) addressing the questions, what skepticism is. And finally they "award" the worst anti-scientific person or organization with the "Flying Unicorn" prize, each April 1st. COMCEPT finances itself through membership fees and donations. Please consider supporting their cause!

I interviewed Diana Barbosa about COMCEPT, a Portuguese skeptics community. Diana told me about events they will be at over the next two weeks. However, the full episode is scheduled for June 1st. So I cut together a brief intro into COMCEPT and promo for two events! For Saturday afternoon, May 5th, COMCEPT is invited to talk about their book 'Não Se Deixe Enganar' (Don't fool yourself), a guide to skepticism, as well as other books and science communication at the livraria barata. On May 12th, COMCEPT will have their monthly meeting. These meetings alternate between Lisbon and Porto. Diana was excited to announce that their guest this month, in Porto, will be João Júlio Cerqueira, the creator of the SciMed blog about scientifically supported medicine.

It was Homeopathy (and Chiropractic) Awareness Week, but wee had a lot of other stuff like anniversaries and awards to talk about on this episode, including 2 years of Information Netzwerk Homeopathie with Natalie Grams, 6 years of both ComCept running skeptical activism in Portugal and Spanish Skeptics running the show Pensando Críticamente. Also, ComCept just announced their Flying Unicorn Awards, whilst CICAP has announced that there would be a CICAPfest held this year in Padova. In France, physicians appeal to get rid of alternative medicine, and in Italy, Massimo Polidoro recently launched his new video series on YouTube! Let's go nuts and follow Virgin Galactic on their journey to space tourism, but don't forget Mark Zuckerberg's promises to keep fighting against false information and brainwashing with Facebook.

En 2012 a portada de Science amosaba unha imaxe tomada cun microscopio de forza atómica dunha única molécula de hexabenzocoranano que emocionou os químicos: podían ver por primeira vez de forma directa a fortaleza dos enlaces. Atrás desta imaxe estaba o químico do CIQUS Diego Peña. Conversamos con calma con este profesor de química orgánica da USC que nos explica en qué consiste a revolución de apalpar moléculas individuais. Os amigos da Comcept, Comunidade Escéptica Portuguesa, veñen de publicar "Não se deixe enganar". A escusa perfecta para parolar con Diana Barbosa, João Monteiro e o Martin Pawley sobre escepticismo. https://t.co/uZB2AQXh91 As Moleculas en Galego de Javier Balea permíntennos tomar o sol sen riscos. Presentamos unha nova edición da "Noite Efervescente"

En 2012 a portada de Science amosaba unha imaxe tomada cun microscopio de forza atómica dunha única molécula de hexabenzocoranano que emocionou os químicos: podían ver por primeira vez de forma directa a fortaleza dos enlaces. Atrás desta imaxe estaba o químico do CIQUS Diego Peña. Conversamos con calma con este profesor de química orgánica da USC que nos explica en qué consiste a revolución de apalpar moléculas individuais. Os amigos da Comcept, Comunidade Escéptica Portuguesa, veñen de publicar "Não se deixe enganar". A escusa perfecta para parolar con Diana Barbosa, João Monteiro e o Martin Pawley sobre escepticismo. https://t.co/uZB2AQXh91 As Moleculas en Galego de Javier Balea permíntennos tomar o sol sen riscos. Presentamos unha nova edición da "Noite Efervescente"

Os amigos da Comcept, Comunidade Escéptica Portuguesa, veñen de publicar "Não se deixe enganar". A escusa perfecta para parolar con Diana Barbosa, João Monteiro e o Martin Pawley sobre escepticismo. https://t.co/uZB2AQXh91

Os amigos da Comcept, Comunidade Escéptica Portuguesa, veñen de publicar "Não se deixe enganar". A escusa perfecta para parolar con Diana Barbosa, João Monteiro e o Martin Pawley sobre escepticismo. https://t.co/uZB2AQXh91

This week we talked about how fake news are a bit more complicated than that, Vaxxed still growing its audience, Rudolf Steiner and his anthroposophy and schools, Massimo Polidoro having a new book out, ComCept's Flying Unicorn Award, the Carl Sagan Journalism Prize offered by GWUP, the UK's Charity Commission's consultations about the charitable status of organisations promoting pseudoscience, the death of the last patient of Paolo Macchiarini's. Finally, the British Chiropractic Association wins the Really Wrong price for still "happily promoting bogus treatments".

On this episode, you'll find news, events and interesting topics, including Skepsis, the Norwegian skeptical organisation revitalised, the status of homeopathy in the Czech Republic, AllTrials starts TrialsTracker, an automated tool to find unpublished trials, a German university to offer a homeopathy course, James Randi receives the first Oberhummer Prize in Vienna, CICAP launches the next Mystery Investigator Course in Padova and El Esceptico Nr. 45 is out of the print. Also featuring a report from QED 2016 with Eran Segev from the Australian Skeptics as well as Diana Barbosa and Joao Monteiro from ComCept, the Portugese Skeptic Community. Segments Intro; Greetings & Feedback; On this day; What's on in Europe?; What's hot in Europe?; QED report; Really Wrong; Quote

On this episode, you'll find news, events and interesting topics, including Rosetta, ComCept officially instituted, ECSO website launched, The Good Thinking Society winning another battle, Spanish pharmacists take action against selling homeopathy, BBC report revealing shocking training for autistic people, My Scientology Movie not screening in Ireland and the Swedish Democrat Party pushing for equality of Medicine and CAM. Segments Intro; Greetings & Feedback; On this day; What's on in Europe?; What's hot in Europe?; Really Wrong; Quote

Today on Live with Big Pete and the Shufflers, Joe & Ken sit down and play in real time, unedited and uncut!, Comcept, Inti Creates, Deep Silver & JP: Spike Chunsoft's 2016 action platform video game, "Might No. 9" on Xbox One.

Welp. Here we are. We’re talking about Mighty No. 9 by Comcept. We should have launched a wildly popular Kickstarter campaign for this episode but instead we’re just going to do it by request of Paul Andersen. In additional to our “video game review” we also dust off our ol’ snack review segment and talk about … Continue reading → The post Ep. 328 – Mighty No. 9 appeared first on TADPOG: Tyler and Dave Play Old Games.

This week, Tom talks about his frustrations with video game crowdfunding. Shanee starts a conversation about platform-specific software exclusivity(she also has a hard time saying "exclusivity"). Ryan gets personal and asks what video games have helped the others through hard times.

Welcome to the GameGravy.com Rewind Episode 56 Podcast. Speaking in it is Anthony DeVirgilis (Editor) Twitter:@ADeVirgilis,  Dante Rahdar (Writer) Twitter:@GhostofMarino and Chris King (Writer) Twitter:@Gnikjc. We hope you enjoy Episode 56! In this episode we talk about: With the news of Comcept delaying Mighty No. 9... Read More » The post GameGravy Rewind Podcast Episode 56 first appeared on GameGravy.

Welcome to the GameGravy.com Rewind Episode 56 Podcast. Speaking in it is Anthony DeVirgilis (Editor) Twitter:@ADeVirgilis,  Dante Rahdar (Writer) Twitter:@GhostofMarino and Chris King (Writer) Twitter:@Gnikjc. We hope you enjoy Episode 56! In this episode we talk about: With the news of Comcept delaying Mighty No. 9... Read More »

Interview with Diana Barbosa, co-founder of ComCept, the Portuguese Skeptic Community and co-organiser of ComCeptCon as well as Skeptics in the Pub in Porto. Segments: Intro; Greetings; Listener feedback; On this day; What's on in Europe?; What's hot in Europe?; Interview with Diana Barbosa; Logical Fallacies; Interview with Dario Taraborelli; Really Wrong; True or false; Quote

Colin's favorite developer of all-time, Keiji Inafune, joined us to talk Mighty No. 9, the future of Comcept, and the state of Japanese development. (Released 12.18.15)

On this week’s show (episode 159) host Andrew Eisen and E. Zachary Knight discuss the latest GamePolitics poll (“How important is it that localized titles are dubbed in your language?” – 18:56 mark),   Comcept delaying the Mighty No. 9 demo (34:04), Shenmue III looking for more crowd funding (44:52), the new study critical of ESRB’s ...Continue reading ‘Super Podcast Action Committee – Episode 159’ »

Tokyopop returns from the dead, RightStuf to release Mobile Suit Gundam on Blu-Ray and Revolutionary Girl Utena on Blu-Ray, Digital Manga Publishing to pay localizers up-front for manga translations, Studio 4C and Comcept launch crowdfunding for Red Ash anime film and video game and a crowdfunding platform, Funimation issues a statement about copyrights vs. trademarks, and a new Saber Marionette series coming after nearly 20 years

It's that time again here at the Retro VGM Revival hour, where you, the fellow listener, have entered another BONUS STAGE. No theme, or subject, just a selection of random tracks of the past and present as a reward for showing much love and respect to the art of Video Game Music. So as you sit back and surround yourself with your beverage of choice, just Listen to these amazing tracks to get you excited to take on whatever lies a head. Game - Composer - Title - Year - Company - System 1.) Ninja Gaiden - Keiji Yamagishi, Ryuichi Nitta & Ichiro Nakagawa - "Unbreakable Determination [Stage 4-2]" - March 1989 - TECMO - NES 2.) Yuu Yuu Hakusho: Makyou Touitsusen - Kazuo Hanzawa, Katsuhiko Suzuki & Satoshi Murata - “Sub-Space 2” - September 30, 1994 - Treasure/SEGA - Sega Genesis(Mega Drive) 3.) Kid Icarus: Uprising - Motoi Sakuraba, Yuzo Koshiro, Masafumi Takada, Noriyuki Iwadare, Yasunori Mitsuda, and Takahiro Nishi - "Reset Bomb Forest” - March 23, 2012 - Project Sora/Nintendo - 3DS 4.) Retro City Rampage - Leonard J. Paul, Matthew Creamer & Jake Kaufman - “Not Mega…” - October 9, 2012 - Vblank Entertainment - XBLA, PSN, Nintendo Wii, 3DS, Windows PC, PS Vita & Mac OSX 5.) Ys: Oath in Felghana - Falcom Sound Team jdk (Mieko Ishikawa, Masaaki Kawai, Yukihiro Jindo)- "Valestein Castle” - November 2, 2010 - Nihon Falcom Corporation - PSP & Windows PC 6.) Bravely Default - Revo - "Conflict's Chime” - February 7, 2014 - Silicon Studio & Square Enix/NINTENDO - 3DS 7.) Street Fighter IV - Hideyuki Fukasawa - "Theme of Sakura" - February 17, 2009 - Dimps Corporation & CAPCOM/CAPCOM - Arcade, Xbox 360, PS3, PS4, Windows PC, 3DS, iOS 8.) Mighty No. 9 - Manami Matsumae, Ippo Yamada & Takashi Tateishi - "Main Theme” - September 15, 2015 - Comcept & Inti Creates/Deep Silver - Windows, Mac OSX, Linux, PSN, PS Vita, WiiU, 3DS & XBL 9.) The Legend of Heroes: Sen no Kiseki - Falcom Sound Team jdk - "Don't Be Defeated by a Friend!” - September 26, 2013 (japan Only) - Nihon Falcom - PS3 & Vita 10.) Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World: The Game - Anamanaguchi - "Gideon Wrath, Part I” -August 2010 - Ubisoft Montreal/ Ubisoft & Universal studios - XBLA & PSN 11.) Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why'd You Steal Our Garbage?!! - Jake Kaufman - “Boss: Ice King" - November 20, 2012 - WayForward Technologies/Bandai Namco Games & D3 Publisher - 3DS 12.) Cthulhu Saves the World - Gordon McNeil - “Conflict (Battle Theme)” - December 30, 2010 - Zeboyd Games - Xbox 360 (XBLA Indie Games) & Windows PC 13.) Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze - Daisuke Matsuoka, Minako Hamano, Shinji Ushiroda, Riyu Tamura & David Wise - "Homecoming Hijinx" - February 21, 2014 - Retro Studios & Monster Games/NINTENDO - Nintendo WiiU 14.) Street Fighter X Mega Man - Luke Esquivel - "Boss Battle Theme ("Volcanic Rim" theme from Street Fighter IV)” - December 17, 2012 - Seow Zong Hui/CAPCOM - Windows PC 15.) Shovel Knight - Jake Kaufman & Manami Matsumae - “Strike the Earth! (Plains of Passage)" - June 26, 2014 - Yacht Club Games - Windows PC, Mac OSX, Linux, PSN, 3DS, Wii U, PS Vita & XBLA 16.) Rayman Legends - Christophe Héral & Billy Martin - “Mariachi Madness" - September 3, 2013 - Ubisoft - Wii U, Windows PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 & Vita 17.) Mario & Luigi: Dream Team -Yoko Shimomura - “Never Let Up! (Boss Theme)” - August 11, 2013 - AlphaDream & Good-Feel/NINTENDO - 3DS 18.) Last Ninja 2 - Matt Gray - "Central Park” - 1988 - System 3 & Beam Software/Activision - Commodore 64 19.)Mega Man 10 - Manami Matsumae - “Desert Commando (Commando Man Stage)" - March 1, 2010 - Inti Creates & CAPCOM/CAPCOM - XBox 360, PS3 & Wii 20.) Dragon Ball Z: Budokai - Kenji Yamamoto - “Challengers” - December 3, 2002 - Dimps Corporation/Bandai - GameCube & PS2 Info: Twitter @MoonSpiderHugs SITE: retrovgmrevival.blogspot.com/ FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/groups/vgmrevivalhour/ EMAIL: info@maglomania.com (just put "retro VGM Revival" as the subject)