If you believe the rumours, Mark Zuckerberg is about to take over the world. But what about the actual internet: the servers, the routers, and the thousands of miles of fibre-optic cables that cross the world? Who controls them? And who makes the rules that govern how traffic flows, who can connect, and more – and why don't we talk about it more often?

This event will be online, on the Skeptics in the Pub Twitch channel.

Most of us know the basics of how to take care of our physical health, but what about the brain? In this talk, Chartered Psychologist Kimberley Wilson will present an overview of the evidence and discuss the role of modifiable risk factors in brain and mental health.

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Dr Suzi Gage is a senior lecturer at the University of Liverpool, researching links between recreational drug use and mental health. In 2020 she published Say Why To Drugs, giving a really deep dive in to the drugs we take, and why we get high.

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Join host Andy Wilson for the first-ever live-streamed episode of the skeptical-themed panel show InKredulous.

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Imagine approaching strangers in public and attempting to engage them in a calm, respectful exploration of their beliefs, using a conversational technique known as Street Epistemology. Anthony Magnabosco has been doing just that for nearly a decade now. In this interview we'll be turning the tables on him somewhat to find out what on earth made him decide to do this.

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Many of us think of cancer as a contemporary killer, but it has has always been with us, because cancer is a bug in the system of life. We get cancer because we can't not get it. Geneticist and science writer Dr Kat Arney takes us to the dawn of life on planet earth right up to the present day to see how by better understanding its evolutionary journey we might one day overcome it.

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Over the next thirty years, we desperately need to make huge changes to the way we produce and consume food, otherwise, the effect on the natural world will be devastating. This talk will explain how misinformation is one of the most powerful forces preventing this from happening and explore cognitive biases that push us towards misinformation on these issues, resulting in confusion, apathy, and inaction.

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The spread of harmful misinformation in this pandemic has led to deaths, financial loss, increased stigma, and health policy challenges. We must counter this “infodemic” with evidence-based communication strategies. Despite concerns about the "backfire effect", debunking works — if done well!

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Today’s Utah population is ~89% white compared with the national average of ~60% white and is one of the most religiously homogenous states in the nation. Utah Mormonism is the result of a large-scale eugenics experiment within recent history.

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In his characteristically robust style, Adam will discuss how the appeal to science to strengthen racist ideologies is on the rise — but if understood correctly, science and history can be powerful allies against racism, granting the clearest view of how people are, rather than how we judge them to be.

This event will be online, on the Skeptics in the Pub Twitch channel.