“As I look into the crystal ball, I see… I see… I see James Randi, magician and skeptic extraordinaire. It’s the self-same Randi who once exposed Uri Geller’s trick for bending spoons. What does he say now that Geller has apparently admitted he is a magician, and not a silverware psychic after all?”

Also, the Amazing Randi’s last chance for all mind readers, levitation experts and other masters of the paranormal: you have two years to prove your stuff before the $1,000,000 challenge ends.

Plus, a recent Harvard study scans brains for neurological evidence of ESP… unfolding the origins of the fortune cookie… And Phil Plait rounds up the latest skewed cogitations of lazy brains: is a recent Rover photo evidence of Bigfoot on Mars?

It’s Skeptical Sunday… but don’t take our word for it.

Guests:

  • Phil Plait – Author of badastronomy.com
  • James Randi – Stage magician, paranormal skeptic, and founder of the James Randi Educational Foundation
  • Sam Moulton – Psychologist at Harvard University

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