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The Skeptics Guide #944 - Aug 12 2023

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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How to Be a Minimally Disruptive Speaker

This week's noisy is one of those vinyl records from the 70s and 80s that had a computer program embedded in them. A device called an Optifon converts letters into audible tones so that blind people could essentially read a book. Nobody guessed it, but there was another Aussie name besides Visto Tooti - can't get away from him.

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