The Skeptic Zone #696 - 6.February.2022

<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>0:03:09</em> <div><strong>You Can Count on Adrienne</strong><br /> <br /> This week Adrienne looks at the mystical and mysterious meanings behind the number 7. Is 7 good luck, bad luck, out of luck, lucky duck, or none of the above? What does numerology have to say about your personality?</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> <hr align="center" size="1" width="75%" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><em>0:14:29</em> <div><strong>An Award for Susan Gerbic</strong><br /> <br /> CSI awards the Robert P. Balles Annual Prize in Critical Thinking annually. The $2,500 award is given to the "creator of the published work that best exemplifies healthy skepticism, logical analysis, or empirical science."<br /> <br /> Also Susan and the trivia crew try their luck at predicting the roll of a six sided die.<br /> <br /> <a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_for_Skeptical_Inquiry#Robert_P._Balles_Prize"> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_for_Skeptical_Inquiry#Robert_P._Balles_Prize</a></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> <hr align="center" size="1" width="75%" /></td> </tr> <tr bgcolor="#F8F8FF"> <td valign="top"><em>0:24:17</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 "Spoon Bending Kids from the 1970s".<br /> <br /> <a href= "http://www.trove.nla.gov.au/">http://www.trove.nla.gov.au</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>Richard Saunders on the radio to talk about the Great Australian Psychic Prediction Project.<br /> <br /> <a href= "https://www.4bc.com.au/podcast/a