If you're looking for some spooky listening for your Halloween, then aim your ectoplasmic resonator at astronomer Neil Tyson's Star Talk radio show, because last night he hunted ghosts... or at least, talked to some folks who know about ghosts. He chats with author Mary Roach, skeptic ghost investigator Joe Nickell, and... me! Yeah, I'm not really an expert on ghosts -- still being alive and all -- but I've seen a few ghost movies in my time, so we chat about those, and why I don't personally think dead people are floating around, knocking on walls and hoping some "ghost hunter" will notice us and anxiously whisper, "Did you hear that?" As always, talking with Neil is a lot of fun, and you'll enjoy the whole show. You can also download the MP3 directly, too. [UPDATE: you can subscribe to Star Talk using iTunes, as well!] My interview is broken up into several segments; the first starts around 11:30, the second at 24:50, the third at 36:15, and the fourth at 41:00. But of course you should listen to the whole show; it's pretty entertaining! I'll note we did this interview through Skype, and my voice is a little warbly. Or was I just communicating from the other side??!! OK, yeah, it was just warbly. But you were scared there for a second, weren't you? OK, yeah, no you weren't. Damn. Being a skeptic on Halloween is hard.
Image credit: me! If you're curious, that's my pal Jennifer Ouellette and me from TAM 9, chatting with the disembodied head of Neil. Having him floating around like that was distracting.
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