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Welcome to the community portal! This is the place to make suggestions and ask questions.

Add new topics at the top, and add comments to current topics in chronological order.

== Hiding whole episodes in Category lists in favor of segment redirects? ==

Is there a way to hide or bury or move to the end the long list of episodes that are categorized in various categories (like [https://www.sgutranscripts.org/wiki/Category:Science_%26_Medicine Science & Medicine]), so that the categories' lists don't have all the # at the beginning? This way the segment redirects will be more prominent. Just a thought.. --Xanderox 06:22, 11 June 2020 (AEST)

== Episode Skeleton ==

Hi, everyone. I've been hard at work fixing various typos in the help pages, adding new templates, updating the episode list, etc., and I also created a new [[Episode skeleton (new)|Episode skeleton]] based on some of the more recent transcripts I've perused. Hopefully this looks good to everyone. I have a lot I want to do while I'm here! Check out my first episode contribution: [[SGU Episode 762|Episode 762]]

Phew! --Xanderox 06:35, 10 June 2020 (AEST)

== What's the Word. Forgotten Superheroes ==
I recently finished a personal project of transcribing all of the "What's the Word?" segments, at least up to episode 590. If anyone wants to proof read them, I made a page with links to all of the segments: [[What's the Word?]]

I've also done all of the female [[Women_in_history_on_the_SGU|Forgotten Superheroes of Science]] over the same time period, if anyone is interested.

== Speech recognition software ==
Could we use the YouTube API and auto captions to get a rough draft? --[[User:Geneocide|Geneocide]] ([[User talk:Geneocide|talk]]) 23:17, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
: I'd love to see the results. From what I've read the accuracy is low enough as to not be useful but it'd certainly be interesting to see. --[[User:Rwh86|Rwh86]] ([[User talk:Rwh86|talk]]) 08:47, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Ooh, it looks like there are some interesting things going on with Google speech recognition. There's a [https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/demos/speech.html demo app] that lets you talk for as long as you like. The first thing I'm going to have to do is to work out how to get chunks of the SGU podcast into it. I'm sure there's a way to couple the audio out and audio in on my linux machine, and if not, a simple cable from the headphone to the mic jack aught to do the trick. --[[User:Rwh86|Rwh86]] ([[User talk:Rwh86|talk]]) 09:03, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
: So, after doing two episodes this way, what's your assessment of the process? I looked at [[SGU Episode 402|episode 402]], and it looks like it'll be almost as much work to decipher that wall o' text as it would have been to just type it in from scratch. Is it easy to set up, technically? -- [[User:Av8rmike|Av8rmike]] ([[User talk:Av8rmike|talk]]) 13:28, 13 April 2013 (UTC)
:: I'll have to go through and do the proof reading process before I know. Technically speaking, it's super easy. All I have is my headphones right next to the mic on my laptop, then I go to that google page, click the button and press play in vlc. So I imagine that it woudl be possible to get better results by either using a dedicated cable from the headphone jack into the mic jack, or by using some kind of software solution to pipe the sound into this web app. As far as I can see the quality varies. When one rogue is speaking clearly it does really well. When they talk over each other it's basically useless. Also, foreign accents completely confuse it. --[[User:Rwh86|Rwh86]] ([[User talk:Rwh86|talk]]) 15:36, 13 April 2013 (UTC)
::: I tried it, but for whatever reason, the Google speech test page just didn't work for me; It kept asking for permission to use the microphone but wouldn't start recording. It doesn't matter; there's still stuff like categorization and formatting that has to be done manually anyway. -- [[User:Av8rmike|Av8rmike]] ([[User talk:Av8rmike|talk]]) 14:42, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

There's also a [https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/transcribe-transcribe-aud/ogokenmicnjdfhmhocanoemnddmpcjjm chrome extension for transcription] that allows you to speed up, slow down, pause etc the audio all from the same window as your text editor. --[[User:Rwh86|Rwh86]] ([[User talk:Rwh86|talk]]) 08:46, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

== Sci or Fi stats ==
Hello everyone. I have an idea that is not completely relevant to SGU Transcripts, but I thought this would be the best place to ask this question. For a while now I have been wanting to have a little more fun with the results of Science or Fiction, beyond the simple annual tabulation of scores. Most importantly, I would like to measure the GWB Effect! Specifically, I would like to begin tabulating data on each Science or Fiction, and making it available to anyone who wants to perform an analysis on it. Things we could measure are: result for each player (right/wrong), order of answers given, number of "science" options, existence of theme, etc. There are other things as well. I think it would be a fun project for SGU fans who are also stats geeks. Anyone else interested? --[[User:Manyou07|Manyou07]] ([[User talk:Manyou07|talk]]) 08:52, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
: Sounds great! I know that [[User:Teleuteskitty]] has done some stuff. Would it be possible to do something cool with google docs? It'd be nice to do some graphs too. --[[User:Rwh86|Rwh86]] ([[User talk:Rwh86|talk]]) 14:29, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
: Thanks! I opened a thread at the SGU Forums for further discussion: http://sguforums.com/index.php/topic,44888.0.html[http://sguforums.com/index.php/topic,44888.0.html] --[[User:Manyou07|Manyou07]] ([[User talk:Manyou07|talk]]) 06:41, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

== Word count ==
Hey. I've seen the [[Special:Statistics|Statistics]] page, but I've also noticed that when I search, it tells me the word count of pages. Is it possible to get some sort of Total word/character count? I personally would like to see. --[[User:Geneocide|Geneocide]] ([[User talk:Geneocide|talk]]) 01:13, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
: There's also [[Special:ContributionScores]] but I think it has a tendency to massively overvalue small changes over larger ones, so people who do a lot of small corrections get higher scores than those who have transcribed a lot of text which is obviously not what we want. I haven't been able to find an extension that gives a total word count, but a while back I did do it manually by dumping all of the pages to text using some bodgy scripts on my linux box, then doing a word count on those text pages. It was on 2012-11-28 and we had transcribed 910,050 words, 5,128,984 characters, and we had completed 57 of 384 (15%) full SGU episodes and 78 of 113 (69%) 5x5 episodes. I'll do a refresh of these stats when I get a chance, but it's quite laborious. --[[User:Rwh86|Rwh86]] ([[User talk:Rwh86|talk]]) 10:00, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
: Just casting my eye down the episode lists, I get 65 SGU (17%) and 83 5x5 (73%) episodes complete right now. --[[User:Rwh86|Rwh86]] ([[User talk:Rwh86|talk]]) 10:06, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
: OK, I just did another run: 1,055,851 words, 5,937,159 characters. --[[User:Rwh86|Rwh86]] ([[User talk:Rwh86|talk]]) 12:30, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
: I've been working on some programs to generate some statistics for both the transcripts and the editing histories. However, I am not sure about the best way to share the results. For example, as of Oct 8, 2013, there are 170 episodes transcribed in whole or part containing 9,846,222 characters of text in 1,615,743 words. I can also generate word counts (the 10 most common words are: the, that, and, to, of, a, I, you, it, is), word lengths (the longest word is "electroencephalograms"), Rogue counts, guest lists, and more, if anyone is interested.
: For transcribing and editing, Av8rmike has the most edits (829), but Rwh86 has added the most characters (2,396,629). I can generate copious quantities of HTML tables with the results, but would need some help setting up and linking to some sort of custom statistics page. Let me know if there is any interest in posting this kind of information. Thanks. --[[User:Jim Gibson|Jim Gibson]] ([[User talk:Jim Gibson|talk]]) 19:26, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

== Dead episode links ==
Quoted from [[Talk:SGU_Episode_127]] for general discussion:
<blockquote>If we just put in dead links to episodes that don't exist, wouldn't that create a list of the most referenced yet to be made episode pages? Wouldn't that possibly be good? --[[User:Geneocide|Geneocide]] ([[User talk:Geneocide|talk]]) 02:01, 29 December 2012 (UTC)
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:True, it would add them to [[Special:WantedPages]], although the numbers there are bumped up by having consecutive episodes transcribed with automatic navigation links etc. . I like the idea of noting the most needed episodes, but I personally think it's best to avoid dead links in text where possible, even though these would automatically update when the page becomes available. I proposed a slightly different way on [[Template talk:Link needed]] a while back - we could use that method to add a reference with the dead link, bumping them up the 'Wanted' list, whilst keeping an eye on [[:Category:Needs internal links]]. Which isn't perfect. Alternatively, we could:
#create the referenced pages and add a 'priority pages'category
#make a page listing all episodes to be transcribed, marking which are referenced
:What do you think? --[[User:Teleuteskitty|Teleuteskitty]] ([[User talk:Teleuteskitty|talk]]) 02:47, 29 December 2012 (UTC)
::I'm a big fan of whatever is easiest. Am I right in thinking that this would be the broken (red) link approach? --[[User:Rwh86|Rwh86]] ([[User talk:Rwh86|talk]]) 16:35, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
:::I think so, yep. And just for the record, if that's what you guys think is best, I'm more than happy to go back through pages switching 'link needed' templates to dead links – I'm more motivated to take a uniform approach than to get any of my over-complicated ideas in place :) --[[User:Teleuteskitty|Teleuteskitty]] ([[User talk:Teleuteskitty|talk]]) 22:08, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
::::I'll offer my reasoning on the "Link needed" template, since I'm the one that created it. My idea for it was just as a "placeholder" for when I was transcribing/proof-reading and one of the rogues makes reference to something from a previous episode, but I ''didn't'' know which episode it is, indicating for someone to find it at a subsequent date. If you know what episode is being referenced and there isn't a page created already, I'd say by all means go ahead and put in the dead link to save another person the trouble of figuring out which episode it should be. -- [[User:Av8rmike|Av8rmike]] ([[User talk:Av8rmike|talk]]) 04:50, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
:::::Ah, I see! That makes sense. Looks like that's the probably the consensus, so I'll start switching them over --[[User:Teleuteskitty|Teleuteskitty]] ([[User talk:Teleuteskitty|talk]]) 07:50, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

== Steve Novella Show ==
'''Call for volunteers''': I've posted a framework for [[SGU_Episode_49|episode 49]] and did the first segments, then marked it as "open" to try to attract some more help. This one is The Steve Novella Show, as in the one he did all by himself, including Science or Fiction and Name That Logical Fallacy. It should be very easy to do, especially for someone who has trouble telling different voices apart. Sorry I can't offer any T-shirts. =)
: What exactly needs doing on this episode? I don't want to listen to everything if I don't have to. --[[User:Geneocide|Geneocide]] ([[User talk:Geneocide|talk]]) 19:54, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
::Oops, I just now noticed I never signed my comment. D= You don't have to transcribe the entire thing if you don't want to; you can do just a segment here or there. -- [[User:Av8rmike|Av8rmike]] ([[User talk:Av8rmike|talk]]) 22:11, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
:::Well, maybe it's more trouble than it's worth but if you know that there's nothing missing up until some point, what that point is would be nice. It's a little unclear just looking at the transcript so far... at least to me. --[[User:Geneocide|Geneocide]] ([[User talk:Geneocide|talk]]) 00:24, 29 December 2012 (UTC)
::::It's been transcribed up to the [[SGU_Episode_49#Agnosticism_.289:03.29|Agnosticism]] e-mail. The rest has just been copied over from the show notes page. I haven't even formatted the text to break it into paragraphs, which may be what made it unclear to you. -- [[User:Av8rmike|Av8rmike]] ([[User talk:Av8rmike|talk]]) 16:15, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

== Mike Lacelle ==
Hey everyone. Was thinking we should maybe try to do something in honor of Mike Lacelle. The only thing I came up with was marking episodes in which he appears as priority and getting them transcribed as soon as we can. If someone found the episodes and marked them I know I personally would work on them before other episodes. Any other ideas? --[[User:Geneocide|Geneocide]] ([[User talk:Geneocide|talk]]) 07:14, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
: That sounds good to me. How about I put a highlight on the front page to replace the t-shirt competition, seeing as that's been won now ;) --[[User:Rwh86|Rwh86]] ([[User talk:Rwh86|talk]]) 17:08, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
:As far as I can tell, he was mostly on around the year-in-review episodes, so I went through them:
:* 2011 in review: [http://media.libsyn.com/media/skepticsguide/skepticast2011-12-31.mp3 337 - Dec 31 2011] - Mike is on this.
:* 2010 in review: [http://media.libsyn.com/media/skepticsguide/skepticast2010-12-29.mp3 285 - Dec 29 2010] - Mike is on this.
:* 2009 in review: [http://media.libsyn.com/media/skepticsguide/skepticast2010-01-01.mp3 232 - Jan 1 2010] - Mike is on this.
:* 2008 in review: 180 - Dec 30 2008 - Mike is NOT on this.
:* 2007 in review: [http://media.libsyn.com/media/skepticsguide/skepticast2007-12-26.mp3 127 - Dec 26 2007] - Mike is on this.
:* 2006 in review: 75 - Dec 27 2006 - Mike is NOT on this.

::Hiya, I've started listing the episodes Mike was on here: [[Mike Lacelle - In memoriam‎]]. I don't think that's all of them though. I've also created pages for some of the episodes, I agree it would be good to prioritise these. --[[User:Teleuteskitty|Teleuteskitty]] ([[User talk:Teleuteskitty|talk]]) 19:54, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

== New starters' questions ==
We should really have the link on the left sidebar that says "Help" link to [[Help:Contents]] instead of https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Contents. It's ''really hard'' to find your way into the local Help pages.

--[[User:bshirley|Bill Shirley]] ([[User talk:bshirley|talk]]) 12:56, 13 September 2016 (AEST)
:Bill: I edited the links on the front page so that they would be more visible; one of them was to the Help contents (which I didn't even know until I looked for it). I haven't figured out a way to edit the sidebar yet, but I'm still looking around. Thanks for the suggestions!
:--[[User:Av8rmike|Av8rmike]] ([[User talk:Av8rmike|talk]]) 07:41, 14 September 2016 (AEST)
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Hey, guys! I'm new here (heard about the project on the recent episode) and today added two sections in episode 349: [[SGU Episode 349#Nuclear Clock (34:53)|Nuclear Clock]] and [[SGU Episode 349#NDE and Lucid Dreaming (40:44)|NDE and Lucid Dreaming]]. Let me know how they look! It's my first time transcribing anything on this scale, and I think I'm getting the hang of it, but I have to admit that I'm a bit of a perfectionist and I feel strange not having ''more'' direction as far as formatting (I realize it would probably be very difficult/time-consuming to enforce super-specific standards at this stage). I looked at some of the completed transcripts to get an idea of what others were doing and tried to use my best judgment from there. I think I'm ready to attack a full episode, but it might take me a while to get through it. There are still some things I'm not entirely clear on, including exactly how the categories/redirects work, so I'm sure I'll ask for some help once I've finished transcribing a full episode (and probably while I'm in the middle of it). Also, I wanted to say that I usually don't have any trouble distinguishing voices (including Jay's and Bob's), so if there are any episodes/sections that need a second pair of ears for that specifically, I can definitely help out. Going forward, is this page the best way to communicate with other members? Thanks! --[[User:Jacquie o|Jacquie o]] ([[User talk:Jacquie o|talk]]) 11:16, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
:Hi Jacquie! Those transcripts you've done look absolutely fantastic! In terms of direction, we're just feeling our way though here. :) I suppose the most important thing is to get as much of the content done, and so long as the meaning is accurate, that's the most important thing. I also try to think "what if someone was running this through google translate?", i.e. would it translate well? That's leading me to leave out "you know" and "um" and those types of things to make the transcript flow better.Great to hear you can tell Jay and Bob apart, if you have time and want some lighter work, doing some proof reading might be right up your alley then. Some people do transcripts and leave, say B?: or J?: if they're not sure, so you could possibly go through and fix those.Going forward, we're trying to work on a place to help members communicate. The best I've got so far is this: [[Special:WikiForum]], but it's a bit bare bones, so when I get some time I'm going to try to integrate something a little more sophisticated.--[[User:Rwh86|Rwh86]] ([[User talk:Rwh86|talk]]) 19:53, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

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Hello all. I just joined. Jumped in and proofread [[SGU Episode 3]], some very minor copy edits, added a fair number of links, and subdivided a particularly long interview. I also added some "dead links" to pages I was figuring we should have locally: NESS and JREF. Or should I go back and change them to external links to THE Wikipedia? --[[User:Bshirley|Bshirley]] ([[User talk:Bshirley|talk]]) 03:34, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
: Hi Bshirley. Thanks for the proof reading, it's very appreciated. It's always fun to add links during the proof reading process, I find I do that a lot too. I really like the subdivisions within the interview breaking it into its topics, that's something I might try to do in future; it would really help with deep linking to a particular subject of discussion. As for the dead links, I'm not so sure. I guess I see our site as not so much providing pages on particular topics à la Wikipedia, and am more inclined to link off to Wikipedia for those kinds of things. We can always improve them on Wikipedia if need be. Just my opinion tho. --[[User:Rwh86|Rwh86]] ([[User talk:Rwh86|talk]]) 15:10, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

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Hello everyone, HNY and thanks for all the great work you're doing here. I'm new to transcribing and to this whole Wiki editing stuff but hope I won't make too much of a mess. I posted a [[5X5_Episode_37|5x5 Episode 37]] for a start so I guess it's ready for proof-reading. I didn't go through the whole Help section yet, just copied the formatting from another verified episode. So if anyone can take a look and check what I got wrong, I'd appreciate it. I'm not an English native speaker, so: (a) Though I tried to stick to the American spelling, there may be some impurities; (b) I'm never sure about punctuation. Guess I tend to abuse/misuse/misplace it. One more thing: I wasn't sure what to do with all the "likes", "you knows"' etc. so I left them in. Don't know what the best practice is. Oh, and I didn't have too much trouble telling Jay and Bob apart. Beginner's luck? ;) Keep up the good work! --[[User:Lvovo|Lvovo]] ([[User talk:Lvovo|talk]]) 00:10, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
:Great stuff! Welcome on board. I've proof read 5x5 #37 for you and I must say, I take my hat off to you. As someone who has some familiarity with a foreign language (having lived in France for a year), I must say you did an amazingly good job. I'd say your error rate is pretty much the same as transcripts done by native speakers. :)
:* Re: American/British spelling: I don't really care, but I'm a bit more laissez faire than most other people on here. :)
:* Re: likes/you knows: I tend to leave them out unless they modify the meaning of the sentence.
:* Re: Bob/Jay: I'm beginning to suspect that this is a talent, as well as a skill.
:One thing that might help is the [[Help:Contents#Useful_pages|skeleton pages]]. These are blank templates you can use when starting a new transcript. Cheers for your help! --[[User:Rwh86|Rwh86]] ([[User talk:Rwh86|talk]]) 12:56, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
::Wow! Appreciate the thumbs up. That's very encouraging. And thanks for the proof read. Apart from obvious misspellings, you corrected the very bits I was least sure of and that's a good sign, I guess :) Care to look at [[5X5_Episode_41|5x5 #41]]? Hope it's not worse than the first one. Cheers! --[[User:Lvovo|Lvovo]] ([[User talk:Lvovo|talk]]) 13:28, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
:::Yep, done. That was even better than the first one, just one change really: [http://www.future-perfect.co.uk/grammartips/grammar-tip-practise-practice.asp practise vs practice]. I'm a native speaker and I still get those mixed up. :) --[[User:Rwh86|Rwh86]] ([[User talk:Rwh86|talk]]) 15:57, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
::::Thanks :) And now [[5X5_Episode_42|#42]] is up for grabs. This is fun ;) --[[User:Lvovo|Lvovo]] ([[User talk:Lvovo|talk]]) 18:35, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

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Hi! Another newbie here, had a go at transcribing [[5X5_Episode_63| 5x5 #63]]. I haven't had much experience with wiki, but looks like I managed to save the page without crashing the website. The only thing so far I'm not sure about is changing the 'status' and the 'category' on the episode list page (maybe I'm not permitted to change this?). I've tried to weed out my antipodean spelling. Please let me know of any stupid rookie mistakes!
 --[[User:Moodswing|Moodswing]] ([[User talk:Moodswing|talk]]) 13:02, 17 September 2013 (UTC)
:Hi Moodswing, thanks for helping out, it looks great! Sorry I'd neglected to add info on this to the help pages, the whole template in a template thing can be a bit confusing. You update the 5X5 episode list by editing [[Template:5X5 episode list]], scroll down to the relevant entry, and update the variables in the '5X5 list entry' template. I've added a bit more info on this to the [[Template:5X5 list entry]] page. So you would change <code>status = incomplete </code> to <code>status = complete</code>, pick your categories from the [[:Category:Topic|Topic page]], and add them as <code>category1 = ...</code> etc. I hope that makes sense. I thought you might like to have a try for yourself, but if you don't fancy it, just pick your categories and let us know - we'll happily make the changes for you. --[[User:Teleuteskitty|Teleuteskitty]] ([[User talk:Teleuteskitty|talk]]) 18:00, 17 September 2013 (UTC)
::Thank you Teleuteskitty! Very helpful. --[[User:Moodswing|Moodswing]] ([[User talk:Moodswing|talk]]) 03:30, 18 September 2013 (UTC)

== Formatting ==
=== Display ===
Is there a way to get <nowiki><blockquote></nowiki> formatted a little bit. Maybe a light background color and/or some automatic large quote marks? Right now it's not necessarily worth using, imho. --[[User:Geneocide|Geneocide]] ([[User talk:Geneocide|talk]]) 19:43, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
:Yep, we could probably change the CSS. I'll see what I can do. Do you have a site in mind that I could use as a basis (i.e. to steal the css from)? --[[User:Rwh86|Rwh86]] ([[User talk:Rwh86|talk]]) 19:43, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
::It looks like something has changed to add a light beige background, which achieves the goal. Personally I think it could be a little more distinct, by my aesthetic tastes are poorly defined and not widely popular. I didn't have any examples in mind, but the first one on [http://css-tricks.com/examples/Blockquotes/ this] site looks good to me. It shows an example of what I meant by the "large quote marks". I am okay with having issues I bring up be un-addressed. I just write down things I think of. I leave the risk/reward analysis to those with better information on the subject. Still, I think the better looking the site is the more likely people are to use it. --[[User:Geneocide|Geneocide]] ([[User talk:Geneocide|talk]]) 21:17, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

Did the way the diffs display change? They look good. --[[User:Geneocide|Geneocide]] ([[User talk:Geneocide|talk]]) 02:00, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
: They ''do'' look good. :) I didn't intentionally change them, but perhaps they changed with the new 1.20 mediawiki version (along with user registration briefly being broken). --[[User:Rwh86|Rwh86]] ([[User talk:Rwh86|talk]]) 13:14, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

Design request: make the left pane logo and links float down the page when scrolling. Just another idea I'm throwing out there. --[[User:Geneocide|Geneocide]] ([[User talk:Geneocide|talk]]) 21:56, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

=== Quickie with Bob ===
Help! I'm totally green and have a question: what am I supposed to do about "Quickies with Bob"? The one in Episode 414 comes in the middle of the news segments... and maybe this issue should be addressed in a Help section somewhere (sorry if I missed it)? --[[User:Fallible|Fallible]] ([[User talk:Fallible|talk]]) 16:47, 18 August 2013 (UTC)
:Hi Fallible, thanks for helping out on the site. It's a good question, and we don't yet have a set format for that. I searched through what's already been done, and I like the format in [[SGU Episode 387]] and [[SGU Episode 400]]. In these, it's treated as a new, 2nd level segment, followed by a 2nd level header "News items continued", and 3rd level headers for the remaining news items. If people agree this format works, I'll go back and change the other transcripts, and add a note in the help section. --[[User:Teleuteskitty|Teleuteskitty]] ([[User talk:Teleuteskitty|talk]]) 18:32, 18 August 2013 (UTC)
::Thanks for the quick reply! I like it (the formatting proposal). The only comment I have is, are "Quickies with Bob" always in the news items section of the podcast? Because if not, we should agree on a format for how to interrupt a second level item with no sub-items (I suppose the same "X continued (time-stamp)" would work). -- [[User:Fallible|Fallible]] ([[User talk:Fallible|talk]]) 22:31, 18 August 2013 (UTC)
: G'day Fallible. What I do is start a new second-level heading for the quickie with Bob. If the quickie occurs in the middle of the news items or whatever, I just do a "News items continued" afterwards, see: http://www.sgutranscripts.org/wiki/SGU_Episode_414. --[[User:Rwh86|Rwh86]] ([[User talk:Rwh86|talk]]) 08:46, 19 August 2013 (UTC)
:: Yeah, if there's no objections, I'll change the others over to this format in a couple of days. --[[User:Teleuteskitty|Teleuteskitty]] ([[User talk:Teleuteskitty|talk]]) 20:44, 1 September 2013 (UTC)
:::Done! --[[User:Teleuteskitty|Teleuteskitty]] ([[User talk:Teleuteskitty|talk]]) 09:26, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

=== Extra references ===
Another question about formatting(?): the news items sometimes include links to references which have been copied from the episode notes. If I think there are additional references which add more information, how can I (or even, should I) add them to the episode transcription? One possibility is to add more links at the start of a news item, but somehow that seems inelegant to me (because there is no distinction between the original link or links from the episode notes and additional links). -- [[User:Fallible|Fallible]] ([[User talk:Fallible|talk]]) 19:36, 1 September 2013 (UTC)
:Good question, I often add them as references to the relevant bit, eg. when they introduce that bit of the story. That way they're clearly not from the SGU guys, which is important, as you say, as it takes a value judgement on what to link to. Hope that helps. --[[User:Teleuteskitty|Teleuteskitty]] ([[User talk:Teleuteskitty|talk]]) 20:41, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

=== Adding descriptions ===
And yet another question about formatting. In my episode, Bob, Steve, and Rebecca talk about the various ways the word "fungi" can be pronounced, but I currently have no way to distinguish between these pronunciations in the transcription. Would it be OK if I added IPA as is sometimes done in Wikipedia? The drawback is that this might break searching for phrases. --[[User:Fallible|Fallible]] ([[User talk:Fallible|talk]]) 19:36, 1 September 2013 (UTC)
:This hasn't been formally acknowledged before, but I think we usually do an approximation of the sounds in speech marks, eg. "Fun-guy", "Funjee" or "Fungee". This is more accessible than IPA, which I personally had to look up and would have no idea how to use. That's my thoughts, anyhow. --[[User:Teleuteskitty|Teleuteskitty]] ([[User talk:Teleuteskitty|talk]]) 20:41, 1 September 2013 (UTC)
::Thanks, Teleuteskitty, I ended up adding the "speech markup" inside parentheses. My impression is that there's a partially declared convention that anything in parentheses is descriptive text added by the transcriber and not anything spoken by the rogues. Please correct me if I am wrong, and consider making this an officially declared convention. --[[User:Fallible|Fallible]] ([[User talk:Fallible|talk]]) 20:27, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
:::You're right, I've definitely done that. So far, we've tried not to be too prescriptive about formatting as this might inhibit contributions. I personally prefer guidelines and uniformity, but there are others who find it too constrictive. In this instance, I think you're right that we should agree a standard for descriptive text to separate it from the actual episode. I'm revising the help section soon, and will address this. does anyone have feedback about using regular parentheses for descriptive text? e.g. (imitating Schwarzenegger) --[[User:Teleuteskitty|Teleuteskitty]] ([[User talk:Teleuteskitty|talk]]) 21:16, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
:::I usually use parentheses as well, mostly because I haven't run into too many situations where parentheticals might be confusing. For things like ''[sic]''s where someone misspeaks or I need to indicate an editorial change, I usually use square brackets. I forgot to mention that I also tend to use italics, as in ''(laughs)'' just to further indicate it's not part of the speech. -- [[User:Av8rmike|Av8rmike]] ([[User talk:Av8rmike|talk]]) 21:26, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
::::Ah, thanks Av8rmike, your comment "made the light bulb over my head light up" that I've been using "(laughter)" wrong. A lot of the time I should have used "(laughs)" because I meant that the particular rogue who was currently being transcribed laughed and the help explicitly states that "(laughter)" indicates general laughter of all or most of the rogues. As for the italics, I'll have to think about it and get back to you if I think it's worth the extra effort. (Oh, and wow, I didn't think of adding [sic] and admire you for having the energy for it, the rogues are misspeaking soooo much in my episode...) [[User:Fallible|Fallible]] ([[User talk:Fallible|talk]]) 22:01, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

=== Science or Fiction ===

I just transcribed [[SGU_Episode_581#Science_or_Fiction_.281:09:38.29|Science or Fiction (581)]]. I veered from some examples I looked at. I added subheadings for the sections: "Cara's Response", [[SGU_Episode_581#Steve_Explains_Item_3|Steve Explains Item 3]], etc. 
I find it is much more readable to me. 
Does anyone have opinions on this? is it okay? Should we make it part of a boilerplate somewhere? --[[User:bshirley|Bill Shirley]] ([[User talk:bshirley|talk]]) 02:40, 12 September 2016 (AEST)
: - I love this idea. I have added it to the [[Episode skeleton (new)|Episode skeleton]] and used the same format in [[SGU_Episode_762#Science_or_Fiction_.281:16:50.29|SGU Episode 762]]. --Xanderox 06:19, 10 June 2020 (AEST)

=== Citations suggestion ===
I don't want to appear to be dictating policy. But I was looking for a format for citing external sources and there wasn't one. I went to Wikipedia and used one of their simple citation formats. (They have an ''extremely'' complex and useful citation template with customized support in the editor. Could this software be updated to their version? would that get their citation support?)

I put this together based on what I found. I think it is desirable on many of the links taken from the SGU show notes. I am suggesting it be added after the [[Help:Getting_Started#References|References]] subhead in [[Help:Getting_Started]].

--[[User:bshirley|Bill Shirley]] ([[User talk:bshirley|talk]]) 04:50, 12 September 2016 (AEST)



=== Citations ===
''(This is part of the discussion thread immidialaty above this)'' 
When providing a link to an external article, new item, or web page, it is desirable to fully cite the item. You should use the '''ref''' tag to provide citations. This will cause a footnote to be created and added to the bottom of the page. If portions of the citation are not readily available, particularly an author or publisher is not obvious, they can be omitted. The date you are editing (and thus confirming the accessibility of the page) is generally the ''retrieved'' date you should use. If there are multiple authors, separate them be semicolons.


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== Interviews ==
Question regarding interviews. When an interview is incorporated into a segment, such as Dr Rachie's interview in [[SGU Episode 366]], does that make her a guest? It doesn't seem like a black and white distinction. --[[User:Zambuck|Zambuck]] ([[User talk:Zambuck|talk]]) 22:09, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
:Hi Zambuck, we use the 'Guest' section in the infobox as a key for non-Rogue speakers, so you're right to add her in there. Thanks for your help! --[[User:Teleuteskitty|Teleuteskitty]] ([[User talk:Teleuteskitty|talk]]) 10:30, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
::I'm assuming that all interviewee's are guests, but don't generate an entry into the "Guest Rogues" category if they're only in the show as an interviewee. In fact, it's probably somewhat rare that the categories "Guest Rogue" and "Interview" both apply in one episode. Xanderox 07:32, 7 July 2020 (AEST)

== External links ==
I've posted the transcript for [[5X5 Episode 30]] so it's ready for a proof. Any takers? Tried my best to keep to US spelling. Mostly wiki links but some external, any preference? --[[User:tnewsome|tnewsome]] ([[User talk:tnewsome|talk]]) 23:19, 18 October 2012 (EST)
:We've mostly used wiki links, as it keeps a general standard of reference, they're often updated and they reference out to other sites. It's also very handy when you've got lots of linkable points, and it would take forever to find the ''best'' website for each. If readers are interested, it's generally a good place for them to start. Thanks for your help! --[[User:Teleuteskitty|Teleuteskitty]] ([[User talk:Teleuteskitty|talk]]) 18:38, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

Is it possible to have certain text automatically become a link? Like 'Skeptic's Guide to the Universe' or 'New England Skeptic's Society' or the rogues' names for example? --[[User:Geneocide|Geneocide]] ([[User talk:Geneocide|talk]]) 00:39, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
:Not that I know of, other than perhaps using a template --[[User:Rwh86|Rwh86]] ([[User talk:Rwh86|talk]]) 19:43, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
::Just placing double square brackets around a word or a phrase creates a link to a page with that name on this site.
::If you type:
::<pre>[[Skeptics Guide to the Universe]]</pre>
::it will create a "dead link" on this site. If you click on that dead link, you can create a new page. You could create a simple explanatory page for some common thing and in this case a link to the external site. '''Whether that is a desirable solution, I will leave for debate.''' (it ''could'' get out of control, but there ''are'' a few items that might benefit from them.) My intent is only to point out the technical availability.
::You could also create a [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Redirects redirect page] of that name to a differently named page, if it already exists, on the site.
::--[[User:bshirley|Bill Shirley]] ([[User talk:bshirley|talk]]) 03:51, 12 September 2016 (AEST)
:I just noticed there are several templates that provide some convenience in this area. They look to have been created in 2013 (after the original question). There is one for [[Template:SGU|SGU]].
:Using <pre>{{SGU|link=y}} or {{SGU}} </pre> outputs the following: {{SGU|link=y}} or {{SGU}}.
:--[[User:bshirley|Bill Shirley]] ([[User talk:bshirley|talk]]) 07:41, 12 September 2016 (AEST)

== Index of core concepts ==
Had an idea for a project we could work on in conjunction with the transcription. We should keep track of places where the rogues explain a core concept in detail (a lot of 5x5 episodes I imagine) and link to that explanation from other places in the transcription. Paradolia, Occam's razor, selection bias, things like that. We could centralize them into a single page, as well. Within the canonical rogue explanation we can link out to wikipedia or other sources. --[[User:Geneocide|Geneocide]] ([[User talk:Geneocide|talk]]) 19:06, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
: Sounds like a great idea, somewhat compatible with the TIL (Today I Learned) sections. I think centralising them into a single page would make them much easier to find... I know that when I'm transcribing and I hear someone say "we discussed that on a previous podcast" it'd be nice to have a place to go to find that, though perhaps searching would be sufficient. --[[User:Rwh86|Rwh86]] ([[User talk:Rwh86|talk]]) 19:43, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

== Example page(s) ==
Hi all. I think it would be a good idea to pick an episode that is the canonical one. One where whatever the current agreed upon standard is implemented that can be pointed to or referenced whenever needed. Just a thought. Oo... also, we should be careful about links. We need to use nofollow when appropriate so quacks don't get any google juice from our work. 
--[[User:Geneocide|Geneocide]] ([[User talk:Geneocide|talk]]) 03:59, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
:Good idea on the example episode, we're trying to figure out which one would be best. Suggestions welcome! --[[User:Teleuteskitty|Teleuteskitty]] ([[User talk:Teleuteskitty|talk]]) 18:38, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
::It might be that we'll have to splice together a few episodes to get all the various elements in one place. --[[User:Geneocide|Geneocide]] ([[User talk:Geneocide|talk]]) 19:00, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
:::Hi, Geneocide! I think that the transcripts from episodes 350-365 (even the unverified ones) are probably as close to canonical as we're going to get. Those were done in the time when TK, RWH, and I had a little bit more time to devote to the pages and before we started to fall behind. (I'm particular to [[SGU_Episode_365|365]], since that's one I did almost entirely myself. =) --[[User:Av8rmike|Av8rmike]] ([[User talk:Av8rmike|talk]]) 02:42, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

== Proof reading ==
The [[5X5 Episode 6]] transcript has just gone up and is begging for a proof-read and voice check. Any takers? :) --[[User:Skepticat|Skepticat]] ([[User talk:Skepticat|talk]]) 04:21, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
:I got it covered. Thanks, Skepticat! -- [[User:Av8rmike|Av8rmike]] ([[User talk:Av8rmike|talk]]) 02:40, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

Hello everyone! I heard Rob on the SGU and it sounded like a fantastic idea to contribute here. I transcribed a 5x5 episode to start (#39), and I'll probably do a few more before I go whole hog and tackle a full SGU episode. If anyone wants to proof-read that episode I did, that would be fantastic. I know the punctuation is way off there. Thanks in advance, and If you need my help specifically, don't be afraid to message me. Have fun! --[[User:Thevipermike|Thevipermike]] ([[User talk:Thevipermike|talk]]) 05:29, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
:Great, thanks! I'll take a look when I get a chance. :) --[[User:Rwh86|Rwh86]] ([[User talk:Rwh86|talk]]) 19:54, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

== Time formats ==
Hi guys, I've noticed we've used 2 different time-stamp formats. When it gets past the hour mark, I use the h:mm:ss format, but some pages use mm:ss, e.g. 78:12. As the time-stamps form the links for sections, I figure this is pretty important. My argument for using h:mm:ss is that, in my experience, that's what the majority of audio software and mp3 players use, plus I think it's more natural for us to think of time this way. What do you guys think? --[[User:Teleuteskitty|Teleuteskitty]] ([[User talk:Teleuteskitty|talk]]) 17:50, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
:Kitty, the only reason I was using mm:ss was because that's what was already in use on the existing pages. =P I agree that h:mm:ss makes more intuitive sense and is used in more places, so I'm all in favor of switching over. -- [[User:Av8rmike|Av8rmike]] ([[User talk:Av8rmike|talk]]) 13:04, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
::Thanks for responding. Rwh86's away this week, so I'm gonna be cheeky, assume he's cool with it and change them over. We can always change them back if anyone comes up with a good argument for the mm:ss format. --[[User:Teleuteskitty|Teleuteskitty]] ([[User talk:Teleuteskitty|talk]]) 19:00, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

== Categories ==
Hi guys, and thanks for starting this project! I don't have a lot of time to devote to doing whole transcripts, but I'd like to start categorizing the wiki pages, like "SGU Transcripts", "Live Episodes", etc. I think it would also be helpful to have next/previous episode links on each page, either at the bottom or in the infobox. Any opinions? --[[User:Av8rmike|Av8rmike]] ([[User talk:Av8rmike|talk]]) 15:30, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

:Hi Av8rmike, thanks for your interest, any help is always appreciated, big or small. We were thinking of using the categories from the [http://theness.com/roguesgallery/ Rogues gallery], plus others more specific to the podcast, e.g. guests. I think adding a category for live episodes is a great idea. We're also considering using redirect pages for categorizing podcast sections separately.
:I agree, previous/next buttons would be good (in fact I was just playing with some graphics for them). However, I'm not sure how to get a wiki template to recognise the episode number and add/subtract automatically, do you have any ideas about that? Otherwise we can just input them manually. --[[User:Teleuteskitty|Teleuteskitty]] ([[User talk:Teleuteskitty|talk]]) 16:18, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

::I took a stab at adding some categories to [[SGU_Episode_354]] to give an idea of how that would work. I don't know offhand how to do the auto-numbering in wiki templates, but from looking at the help pages for templates, you can do almost anything with them. I could probably do some experimenting and see how far I get. --[[User:Av8rmike|Av8rmike]] ([[User talk:Av8rmike|talk]]) 18:17, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

== Who's who? Recognising the Rogues==
I'd like to help, but I ''cannot'' tell Jay and Bob's voices apart. Am I useless? --[[User:Jenpohl|Jenpohl]] 20:54, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

:I often find this difficult, and it's quite likely I've already made mistakes based on this, but mb you'll get better as you're listening closely. I find Bob more nasal. Another good indicator is whether they're referencing nanotechnology or porn. :) --[[User:Teleuteskitty|Teleuteskitty]] 21:00, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
:That may be a problem, but all it took for me to tell their voices apart was a little time. --[[User:Jay One|Jay One]] 21:02, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

:Just a thought: if you want to put up a <ins>transcription page including</ins> timestamps in comments (using "< !--" and "-->" without spaces in them) for the points you're unsure about, you could flag the pages up here for me (or whoever) to see if we can help out. <ins>This way we can easily search for problem points.</ins> --[[User:Teleuteskitty|Teleuteskitty]] 06:23, 19 April 2012 (UTC) [edited:16:16, 19 April 2012 (UTC)]

:You're definitely not useless! The most important thing is to get a first pass of the transcription done, corrections are then much quicker/easier. How about you put a question mark after the letter if you can't work out who's speaking? So like:
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:B?: Stuff that Bob or Jay said
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:Then someone else can go fix them later, should be pretty quick to do. --[[User:Rwh86|Rwh86]] 09:13, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

Hi guys...First time transcriber here! I was inspired by Tim Farley's presentation at TAM 2012 to see where I could help out - and figured I could at least try this. I just transcribed and posted [[5X5_Episode_4]], but I'm not familiar enough with the Rogues to distinguish voice identities. The only voice IDs I'm somewhat sure of are Steve's and Rebecca's (the others I guessed at). If anyone can help with voice IDs in Ep. 4, that would be great. (Maybe I'll get better at the voices in the future -grin-) --[[User:Skepticat|Skepticat]] ([[User talk:Skepticat|talk]]) 03:47, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
:Hi Skepticat, and (as Av8rmike said) welcome to the team! I proof-read [[5X5 Episode 4]] and added the speakers. The page is great, took me no time to add them. In future, if there's a lot of lines you can't attribute, don't worry about adding times to each, just the first in a cluster. Hopefully that will save you a bit of time too :) I often find Bob and Jay hard to distinguish, but I think Bob's just a little more nasal, and it sounds like Jay might use a desktop mic instead of one close by his mouth. I don't know if that's any help. Thanks for your help, I'm very jealous you got to go to Tam, if you have any feedback for the site, do let us know. --[[User:Teleuteskitty|Teleuteskitty]] ([[User talk:Teleuteskitty|talk]]) 18:58, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

::Thanks for the proof-read! Care to take a whack at [[5X5 Episode 5]], which I just posted? I don't think I'm going to have much luck with voice IDs (other than S & R) unless someone specifically says who's who, so I'll leave that to much more experienced folks, such as yourself, for now. Heck, I ended up riding down in the same elevator with the SGU crew at TAM (I think it was the first morning?) and I didn't fully realize who they were until later. As I was a "first TAMMER", that happened to me a few times with other skeptic notables there. :) --[[User:Skepticat|Skepticat]] ([[User talk:Skepticat|talk]]) 04:23, 28 July 2012 (UTC)

:::Done! And just for the record, I definitely don't get the voices right ''all'' the time. That's just one of the reasons to have subsequent contributors as proof-readers :) --[[User:Teleuteskitty|Teleuteskitty]] ([[User talk:Teleuteskitty|talk]]) 12:56, 28 July 2012 (UTC)

::Skepticat: Some things that may help you get more familiar with the voices:
::* Listen to an episode and follow along with the transcript (assuming it's been verified), paying attention to who's speaking when.
::* Transcribe some of the earlier episodes. Perry is easy to distinguish, and Jay (and sometimes Bob) aren't in all the early ones because of software limitations. -- [[User:Av8rmike|Av8rmike]] ([[User talk:Av8rmike|talk]]) 14:24, 28 July 2012 (UTC)

== Professional transcribers ==
Has anyone explored the idea of hiring a professional transcriptionist to do the work? This could be much faster, but there would be a cost involved. Perhaps a donation fund could be set up for SGU listeners to pay for it. Another podcast that goes this route is the "Security Now" podcast from Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte. -- [[User:128.200.139.53|128.200.139.53]] ([[User talk:128.200.139.53|talk]]) 17:08, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
:I'm a professional trascriber and I would love to contribute towards this project. VLC is good but not optimized for transcription purpose. I would suggest NCH's ExpressScribe software and it's free. Also if you are spending a lot of time on this project, I would recommend investing on a foot pedal. It shouldn't cost you more than $25. With these two things, I am sure you can double your productivity. --[[User:Eupraxsophic|Eupraxsophic]] ([[User talk:Eupraxsophic|talk]]) 02:16, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

== Fact lists ==
Hi guys, I'm guessing this is the best place to put project discussions, let me know if there's another way - I'm new to Wiki editing.

Regarding time stamps for the sections, I've entered them into the headings of [[SGU_Episode_348]] using tags. This shows them smaller in the actual headings, but the same size in the contents list. What do you guys think?

I've also been thinking of ways to make these transcript pages as useful as poss without causing ourselves too much extra work. One way might be to include a kind of bullet-point list of facts from the episode, as they often have throw-away comments that are interesting. E.g. in ep.348, they talk about nut allergies, and that cashew nuts contain the same allergy-inducing resin as poison-ivy. We could lift these from the main text as we go and build a list at the end. It wouldn't make much difference if someone's reading the whole transcript, but it might make a nice feature for flicking through them.
Just a thought, I figured it would be better said earlier than later. What do you think?
 Cheers, --[[User:Teleuteskitty|Teleuteskitty]] 04:14, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

:I like the idea of compiling a fact list at the end of the transcription for each episode. It's just up to the individual transcriber I suppose. Regarding the tags, I definitely think it would help to have the timestamps in these transcriptions, and having it in the section title makes it visible in the table of contents. The other option is to use the wikibox on your user page, which I think is very nice, containing the image, quote, times and links in one place. It just depends on whether or not other people like it too. --[[User:Jay One|Jay One]] 20:11, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

::Thanks, I have no experience making wikibox templates, so if someone else knows more about these, mb they'd like to build one? (although I'm happy to try) we should probably come to some agreement about whether we want them and what they should contain. --[[User:Teleuteskitty|Teleuteskitty]] 20:31, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

I've inserted a rough draft of a fact list at the bottom of [[SGU_Episode_348]]. What do you guys think? It was easy to put together, but I didn't know what to call it.
 --[[User:Teleuteskitty|Teleuteskitty]] 05:54, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
:I originally thought it was a bad idea until I went and looked at your example. Now I think it's ''awesome'', I love it! :) Currently you've called it "Today I Learned..." which I think is good, but can anyone think of a title that's better? Like maybe "Interesting ideas from the podcast" except not that as it sounds terrible. ;) --[[User:Rwh86|Rwh86]] 09:13, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

::Yay! Thanks. For the name, the only thing I thought, was I wanted to be careful not to assert them as hard facts. Also, we should mb point out that they are not part of the transcript, but taken from it after. --[[User:Teleuteskitty|Teleuteskitty]] 16:16, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

== Objectives ==
Hi guys like others I've often thought about this as a project but put off by the amount of time that it would have taken one person, the main reason I thought about doing this was to be able to search the transcripts when needed, example: if someone asked me a question on Homoeopathy I would be able to use my smartphone to give an answer based on what the SGU have talked about in the past, as I generally take what the guys say as fact.

Do you think that what I'm taking about would be possible using this WIKI project??

Looking forward to starting and completing my first SGU Transcript :-) --[[User:Manontop|Manontop]] 09:31, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

:Hi Manontop.
:Sure, I think that would be one of the most important uses of these transcripts. My ideas for having transcripts of the SGU episodes are to facilitate linking, searching and accessibility:
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:* Linking. We have headings throughout the podcasts so that it's possible to link directly to a specific segment, for example [[SGU_Episode_352#Aristolochia_Nephropathy|Aristolochia Nephropathy]] (internal wiki link) or [http://www.sgutranscripts.org/wiki/SGU_Episode_352#Aristolochia_Nephropathy Aristolochia Nephropathy] (external link).
:* Searching. Currently there are (at least) two ways to search. Either using Google or the built-in search box in the top right. If you want to use Google to search only this site, you can do so by using the "site:" term in your query. E.g. your Google query would be [https://www.google.com/search?q=site:sgutranscripts.org+titanic+disaster "site:sgutranscripts.org titanic disaster"]. Google is the king of them all, so I have installed proper semantic web (SEO) support. When a transcript is completed I go through and insert tags to important concepts that are covered in the podcast. This helps Google (and other search engines) know what is important about that page. You can see these by opening a transcript and viewing the source of the page. Then look for the <meta name="keywords" content="..."> tag. There are two components to this, tags that are site-wide such as "skeptics, sceptics, scepticism" etc. followed by tags that are local to a particular page such as "titanic, tragedy, ss, californian, space, junk" etc. Of course, Google also uses the page content when indexing.
:* Accessibility. Quite simple really; people who can't listen to the podcast for any reason (deafness etc.) can now read the transcripts instead.
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:Great to have you on board! :) --[[User:Rwh86|Rwh86]] 11:13, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

==SGU Legal fund==
You guys thinking about doing anything to help out with the SGU legal fund raising? Something to consider at least. I was thinking on the main page the 2nd T-shirt contest winner announcement could be replaced. --[[User:Geneocide|Geneocide]] ([[User talk:Geneocide|talk]]) 19:15, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

==How about using otter.ai==
I just found this transcription site [https://otter.ai/] and I found it quite good with my free trial.
With all the money the SGU are rolling in they could buy a subscription to this service !!! [[User:Ttguy|Ttguy]] ([[User talk:Ttguy|talk]]) 23:18, 12 June 2021 (AEST)

SGU Episode 216

2012-10-25T13:41:47Z

Ttguy: /* Chupacabra () */

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== Introduction ==
''You're listening to the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, your escape to reality.''

S: Today is Sunday September something - I think it is 6th and this is your host Steven Novella
Joining me as always are Rebecca Watson, Jay Novella, and Evan Burnstein.

r:Hello

e:Can we help you?

R: You gotta love Dragon Con

E: Its Adam Savage

S: The Q&A is at the end of this show

R: Can someone come here and help me out?

(laughter)

(bob arrives 1:25)

B: I have a speech.

S: and apparently bob novella

E: Hey Bob

B: Ahoy you chumy skummy bilge rats (in a pirate accent)

S: Bob has always wants to say that

R: I thought we above gimmick

J: Rebecca - this isn't a gimmick - he is always wearing that

S: well welcome to Dragon con.

R: Look at you. Don't touch me.

S: Bob is in his un-dead pirate costume for the listeners that are not here

R: it works really well as a pod cast

S: Oh yeah. Oh Yeah So you gotta love dragon con. 2:21

S: first of all I want to thank Derek and Swoopy for getting skepticism and science and pod-casting in to a huge convention like this so thank-you Derrek
this is only our second year but all ready we love coming here. I mean how often do you get to have your picture taken with Alex from a clockwork orange?

R: I'm hiding under the table. Not in a sexy way

S: apparently Andy McDowell has done some other minor roles but we know what he was. But jay keeps calling him Roddy McDowell

R: Yeah jay comes over to me and is like we met Roddy McDowell. Oh holly crap what did he look like.

J: shut up

(laughter)

S: and it is also great because we get to meet a lot of our skeptical friends from around the world that we only have a virtual relationship with and which we don't get to see in person very often. We just met for the first time Dr Rachel Dunlop from Australia. And of course many old friends now.
S: Now I guess you are probably wondering why this picture is up there for. We've definitely noticed however that the skeptics are not in costume and it is starting to feel a little...

B: (murmurs)

S: ... most of the skeptics are not in costume. actually the four guys had a plan for a lame costume for dragon con. We were all going to grow goatees and come as our mirror image evil selves. But we failed but we could not grow decent goatees.

R: George Rhab grew one over night

S: It was pathetic. But here is the lovely Sheryl Loxten who was exploring steam punk as a possible skeptical costume. And I think she pulls it off very well. But we had to replicate this experiment. So.

<some picture is shown>

R: you are really making that work

S: so you can see Rebecca looking on adoringly from the sidelines

J/B: It is not adoringly Steve. As I was talking to her (inaudible @ 4:43)

S: Don't brush my melon

R: Don't take my catch phrase

?: thats yours?

R: Well technically its don't (inaudible)

J/B: This picture is George (Rhab) with his incredibly large invisible girlfriend

<picture>

S: I love taking pictures of George Rhab because he is always the sharpest dressed guy in the room. Which I suspect is why he likes hanging out with skeptics

J/B: we make him look good

S: Yeah we lower the bar a little bit. Here we see that jay finally perfected that shrink ray he was working on.

<picture>

J: That was one hell of a night guys.

S: Though he insists that not everything shrunk equally.

S: wait for it.

S: Last night at 12 o'clock when everyone is partying I am saying like we have to prep the show. We have to have to have a show tomorrow. This is Rebecca's response.

<picture>

R: you have no way of knowing

== News Items ==

S: so we have a few news items that we are going to cover and then we are going to leave most of the show to some live questions - that is always our favorite part

=== Google and UFOs () ===
[http://www.universetoday.com/39434/google-ufo-doodle-explained/ UniverseToday.com Google UFO Doodle Explained]

S: So yesterday we were looking through some news items and Rebecca found this one. 6:31

R: I did. I get a google alert on the most ridiculous things and one of them is UFOs. And the Internet went crazy yesterday because google mysteriously put up a UFO logo and nobody could explain why. And normal people would be like oh Ok there's a UFO on Google. Thats great. Not normal people flood the internet with comments like the one you see on the screen there which I'll read in the style in which it is written.

R: You won't believe it. I got a video that is showing a ufo. This could be most scaryiest video ever reported except look it up.

R: And you know we got a chuckle out of this because what is it with Caps Lock and crazy people? Why?

J/B: But Rebecca people use caps lock so much now we need something past that. So I was thinking we need super caps lock. It needs to be like twice as big and it needs to make noize.

S: or yeah and it needs to be blinking.

R: for when caps lock isn't crazy enough for you.

R: But the best theory thought for it I saw for it was that yesterday in New Hampshire there was a UFO festival. So maybe thats why. Maybe because of Dragon Con. Who cares. The Internet cares obviously.

(banter)

=== Mongolian death worm ()===
[http://observers.france24.com/en/content/20090810-mongolian-death-worm-fact-or-fantasy The Observers: The "Mongolian Death Worm", fact or fantasy?]

S: So here we are looking at a picture of the Mongolian death worm. 8:14

S: You have to say it like that or it does not mean the same thing

R: you use super caps lock

J/B: And this is clearly out of a D and D book

S: right. The only thing more fierce than this is the Alaskan bull worm. And all you parents out there might get that reference. But other wise no - not so much.

R: no no.

S: I thought I had heard of everything but even Joe Nickle a famous cryptozoologist and sceptic had not heard of the mongolian death worm.

R: I've heard of the mongolian death worm. I love the mongolian death worm.

E: You thought is was a dance though.

R: It is part of my ?? voice style

J/B: That mouth obviously does detend (sic) damage.

(banter)

R: I love the mongolian death worm because take a creature that is not at all frightening - its just a worm - and yet somehow ... It like that thing from Tremors - is Tremors that one from Kevin Bacon? -

S: Yes.

S: And so yeah but to make is scary they say that it spits acid and farts lightning. (9:38)

E: why are we talking about this

S: we are talking about this because some guy called Richard Freeman - which I thought was the guy from halflife right -

R: The nerd jokes are coming fast and furious now right

S: we have got our nerd game up.

S: So he thinks he found it right. He's launched a mission into the Gobi desert and said we are gonna find the Mongolian death worm or the things that sounds that and hes now got his press releases out saying after his expedition he doesn't have the actual worm. Right. But he says the worm certainly exists . When we talked to people in Mongolia they were all quite certain about that. They did not believe that it spits electricity but they did believe that it was venomous.

(laughter)


S: They are very afraid of it. A whole family packed up their hut and moved when they heard of sightings of the worm. So we launched a scientific expedition into Mongolia and came back with anecdotes. That's research money well spent.

b/J: Rebecca could you please read the first two sentences with cap locks. <10:47>

R: the worms really exists we are quite certain of that.

(banter) 11:00

=== Chupacabra ()===
[http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/09/03/animal.mystery.chupacabra/index.html CNN: Texas mystery: 'Defective coyote' or chupacabra?]

S: Since we are on Cryptozoology - do you guys know what this is?

audiencE: its a dog

R: No its not a dog. It is obviously la Chupacabra. And you have to say it like that.

S: And when these things mature they turn into aliens of course.

S: So this fell into the hands of a taxidermist in Texas who is going to preserve it for posterity. Now these kind of weird creatures get found - you know dead animals that look all wierd - get found all the time. And instead of say oh look at that weird dead animal that is partially decomposing . Now we've got infinite news cycle its got to be something that is supernatural. Right so if it is dogish its La Chupacabra right. That's what it is. although ...

(laughter) <11:52>

J: He's clearly been of his meds for the show man

S: If you are going to say Chupacabra - I mean - you know ...

R: do it right

S: um. But I think its probably ... Oh heres the guy Jerry Air. And he says "I don't want to be known as the Chupacabra quack. But people say there is a mythical beast and that I have one. I'll call it Chupacabra because the people love it but I don't know what it is." - Jerry Air - Chupacabra Quack.

S: But you know. Has anyone seen like a Coyote. They are like kinda weird looking dogs. So like half the time these dog like corpses that get found they are just Coyotes or they are just Coyotes that have mated with the domestic dog and produced something even weirder than just a Coyote.

s:But you know they are funny looking to us. Especially if their hair is falling off and they are emaciated because they starve to death or something .

R: or the mange

S: Right or they have mange. They look bizarre - right.

B: <unintelligible through his pirate mask>
(13:00)
<banter>
J: Bob takes off more of his pirate clothes. Bob take the mask off.

R: you really need that hand.

B: You do not really want to see my hair.

B: Not only does the coyote look bizarre The process of decay also kinda does bizarre things.

J: So bob you are taking to us about decay now.

R: So your a zombie with an inside view of decay
(13:41)
B: It is a very interesting process. Do You know that there are some byproducts of the process of decay that the scientists named putracine and <??>. Isnt that interesting?

<banter>

S: That is strangly sexy. Wait did I say that out loud (14:10)

'''Note added in proof:''' Follow up CNN story says that the Kentucky Department of Fish and wildlife determine that the animal is a racoon [http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2011/01/05/dnt.chupacabra.mystery.solved.wlky?iref=allsearch CNN video]

=== Magnetic monopoles ()===
[http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090903163725.htm ScienceDaily.com: Magnetic Monopoles Detected In A Real Magnet For The First Time]

S: We actually have a serious news item to talk about today. I highly recommend you take of the mask for this one bob.

B: No I am going to stick it out. (14:20)

B: How ofter do you get to take about magnetic monopoles as a pirate skeleton?

R: once or twice. 14:31

B: My friend Jack mentioned the title of this the other day at dinner and my first reaction was "no way" the next one was "holly crap". Because I have heard about magnetic monopoles for years and I thought we would never discover them. They are kinda bizarre things that had been predicted by theory going way back to 1931 with Paul Dirac. Theoretical Physicists said you can get a single magnetic pole like a north or a south. If you take a bar or horseshoe magnet and cut it in half you don't get a north here and a south here. You get a north and a south here and a north and a south here. Now there was no theoretical reason why you couldn't have single magnetic pole and it looks like these scientists may have discovered it. Jay do you have the name of that scientist - Jays German is really good.

J: Evan you do it.

E: Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie

J: oont energy (in mock german accent)

B: Yeah and we have permission from Germans to do this

R: The entire country.

B: The idea is that they found this crystal a berkinstal crystal that when you chill to near absolute zero the latice structure - the geometry of the crystal becomes bizare. It is actually it become like ice. Imagine a 4 sided pyramid - at the vertices's you have atoms. And if you chill to to really close to absolute zero the atoms that are really like bar magnets and they line up in a certain way and in some instances this creates a monopole in the midle of the pyramid. You can image a 4 sided pyramid with magnetic monopole in the middle appears - whether a south or a north appears. Now they did not see this to start with because the charges are so tiny. But by using neturon scattering they determined it and they firmly believe that these are real magnetic monopoles and they have some interesting application ins science. And I did find it very interesting. And I did not think it is was ever something that we would ever see. So read about it because it is interesting stuff.

S: When I heard this my first reactions was "no way - magnetic mono pole - come on"

B: (inaudible)

S: that was my second one "yeah science or fiction". If the cycle was just right I know I would have gotten bob on that one.

S: this is like a mythic thing. They have been saying for decades there is no such thing as a magnetic mono-pole, no-one has ever seen one. People have looked for them. Maybe they exist, maybe they dont.
So if this pans out. If this is replicable and this true then this is huge. Now suddenly there is magnetic monopoles. Like for my whole life up to this point there haven't been magnetic monopoles.

S: I think Rebecca you were saying that someone at one of your panels was asking how often you are surprised and change you mind from new evidence. Well how about today. This is huge.

R: well yesterday

J: But did these start out as a regular magnet ?

S: yeah they start out with magnetism and then they some how contrive to make a monopole. While bob and I were talking - are they really a monopole or is the other pole just diffused in the crystal somehow

B: Yeah that is always possible because they used an indirect method to detect it. But it is not just one institute and one study. It is an international team of scientists. and it is a couple of studies. They even created these monopoles a sort of a difuse sort of gas. And these guys are extremely confident that they have this. I mean we will see if it pans out but these guys are fairly confident about it.

S: Yeah this is not cold fusion. But this is big. But until it gets verified we are not going to be re-writing the text books right? We need a little more confirmation. But this the first time someone has made a plausible claim of having a magnetic mono pole. So cool.

J: I was excited because I thought it was magnetic monopoly

R: Actually when jack anounced at the dinner I was like magnetic monocles? Rad.

R: I would have liked to contribute to that discussion but I can concentrate on anything bob is saying. Thats all.

(banter)

S: So we love doing live questions and answers at our live gigs (19:02)

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== Introduction ==
''You're listening to the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, your escape to reality.''

S: Today is Sunday September something - I think it is 6th and this is your host Steven Novella
Joining me as always are Rebecca Watson, Jay Novella, and Evan Burnstein.

r:Hello

e:Can we help you?

R: You gotta love Dragon Con

E: Its Adam Savage

S: The Q&A is at the end of this show

R: Can someone come here and help me out?

(laughter)

(bob arrives 1:25)

B: I have a speech.

S: and apparently bob novella

E: Hey Bob

B: Ahoy you chumy skummy bilge rats (in a pirate accent)

S: Bob has always wants to say that

R: I thought we above gimmick

J: Rebecca - this isn't a gimmick - he is always wearing that

S: well welcome to Dragon con.

R: Look at you. Don't touch me.

S: Bob is in his un-dead pirate costume for the listeners that are not here

R: it works really well as a pod cast

S: Oh yeah. Oh Yeah So you gotta love dragon con. 2:21

S: first of all I want to thank Derek and Swoopy for getting skepticism and science and pod-casting in to a huge convention like this so thank-you Derrek
this is only our second year but all ready we love coming here. I mean how often do you get to have your picture taken with Alex from a clockwork orange?

R: I'm hiding under the table. Not in a sexy way

S: apparently Andy McDowell has done some other minor roles but we know what he was. But jay keeps calling him Roddy McDowell

R: Yeah jay comes over to me and is like we met Roddy McDowell. Oh holly crap what did he look like.

J: shut up

(laughter)

S: and it is also great because we get to meet a lot of our skeptical friends from around the world that we only have a virtual relationship with and which we don't get to see in person very often. We just met for the first time Dr Rachel Dunlop from Australia. And of course many old friends now.
S: Now I guess you are probably wondering why this picture is up there for. We've definitely noticed however that the skeptics are not in costume and it is starting to feel a little...

B: (murmurs)

S: ... most of the skeptics are not in costume. actually the four guys had a plan for a lame costume for dragon con. We were all going to grow goatees and come as our mirror image evil selves. But we failed but we could not grow decent goatees.

R: George Rhab grew one over night

S: It was pathetic. But here is the lovely Sheryl Loxten who was exploring steam punk as a possible skeptical costume. And I think she pulls it off very well. But we had to replicate this experiment. So.

<some picture is shown>

R: you are really making that work

S: so you can see Rebecca looking on adoringly from the sidelines

J/B: It is not adoringly Steve. As I was talking to her (inaudible @ 4:43)

S: Don't brush my melon

R: Don't take my catch phrase

?: thats yours?

R: Well technically its don't (inaudible)

J/B: This picture is George (Rhab) with his incredibly large invisible girlfriend

<picture>

S: I love taking pictures of George Rhab because he is always the sharpest dressed guy in the room. Which I suspect is why he likes hanging out with skeptics

J/B: we make him look good

S: Yeah we lower the bar a little bit. Here we see that jay finally perfected that shrink ray he was working on.

<picture>

J: That was one hell of a night guys.

S: Though he insists that not everything shrunk equally.

S: wait for it.

S: Last night at 12 o'clock when everyone is partying I am saying like we have to prep the show. We have to have to have a show tomorrow. This is Rebecca's response.

<picture>

R: you have no way of knowing

== News Items ==

S: so we have a few news items that we are going to cover and then we are going to leave most of the show to some live questions - that is always our favorite part

=== Google and UFOs () ===
[http://www.universetoday.com/39434/google-ufo-doodle-explained/ UniverseToday.com Google UFO Doodle Explained]

S: So yesterday we were looking through some news items and Rebecca found this one. 6:31

R: I did. I get a google alert on the most ridiculous things and one of them is UFOs. And the Internet went crazy yesterday because google mysteriously put up a UFO logo and nobody could explain why. And normal people would be like oh Ok there's a UFO on Google. Thats great. Not normal people flood the internet with comments like the one you see on the screen there which I'll read in the style in which it is written.

R: You won't believe it. I got a video that is showing a ufo. This could be most scaryiest video ever reported except look it up.

R: And you know we got a chuckle out of this because what is it with Caps Lock and crazy people? Why?

J/B: But Rebecca people use caps lock so much now we need something past that. So I was thinking we need super caps lock. It needs to be like twice as big and it needs to make noize.

S: or yeah and it needs to be blinking.

R: for when caps lock isn't crazy enough for you.

R: But the best theory thought for it I saw for it was that yesterday in New Hampshire there was a UFO festival. So maybe thats why. Maybe because of Dragon Con. Who cares. The Internet cares obviously.

(banter)

=== Mongolian death worm ()===
[http://observers.france24.com/en/content/20090810-mongolian-death-worm-fact-or-fantasy The Observers: The "Mongolian Death Worm", fact or fantasy?]

S: So here we are looking at a picture of the Mongolian death worm. 8:14

S: You have to say it like that or it does not mean the same thing

R: you use super caps lock

J/B: And this is clearly out of a D and D book

S: right. The only thing more fierce than this is the Alaskan bull worm. And all you parents out there might get that reference. But other wise no - not so much.

R: no no.

S: I thought I had heard of everything but even Joe Nickle a famous cryptozoologist and sceptic had not heard of the mongolian death worm.

R: I've heard of the mongolian death worm. I love the mongolian death worm.

E: You thought is was a dance though.

R: It is part of my ?? voice style

J/B: That mouth obviously does detend (sic) damage.

(banter)

R: I love the mongolian death worm because take a creature that is not at all frightening - its just a worm - and yet somehow ... It like that thing from Tremors - is Tremors that one from Kevin Bacon? -

S: Yes.

S: And so yeah but to make is scary they say that it spits acid and farts lightning. (9:38)

E: why are we talking about this

S: we are talking about this because some guy called Richard Freeman - which I thought was the guy from halflife right -

R: The nerd jokes are coming fast and furious now right

S: we have got our nerd game up.

S: So he thinks he found it right. He's launched a mission into the Gobi desert and said we are gonna find the Mongolian death worm or the things that sounds that and hes now got his press releases out saying after his expedition he doesn't have the actual worm. Right. But he says the worm certainly exists . When we talked to people in Mongolia they were all quite certain about that. They did not believe that it spits electricity but they did believe that it was venomous.

(laughter)


S: They are very afraid of it. A whole family packed up their hut and moved when they heard of sightings of the worm. So we launched a scientific expedition into Mongolia and came back with anecdotes. That's research money well spent.

b/J: Rebecca could you please read the first two sentences with cap locks. <10:47>

R: the worms really exists we are quite certain of that.

(banter) 11:00

=== Chupacabra ()===
[http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/09/03/animal.mystery.chupacabra/index.html CNN: Texas mystery: 'Defective coyote' or chupacabra?]

S: Since we are on Cryptozoology - do you guys know what this is?

audiencE: its a dog

R: No its not a dog. It is obviously la Chupacabra. And you have to say it like that.

S: And when these things mature they turn into aliens of course.

S: So this fell into the hands of a taxidermist in Texas who is going to preserve it for posterity. Now these kind of weird creatures get found - you know dead animals that look all wierd - get found all the time. And instead of say oh look at that weird dead animal that is partially decomposing . Now we've got infinite news cycle its got to be something that is supernatural. Right so if it is dogish its La Chupacabra right. That's what it is. although ...

(laughter) <11:52>

J: He's clearly been of his meds for the show man

S: If you are going to say Chupacabra - I mean - you know ...

R: do it right

S: um. But I think its probably ... Oh heres the guy Jerry Air. And he says "I don't want to be known as the Chupacabra quack. But people say there is a mythical beast and that I have one. I'll call it Chupacabra because the people love it but I don't know what it is." - Jerry Air - Chupacabra Quack.

S: But you know. Has anyone seen like a Coyote. They are like kinda weird looking dogs. So like half the time these dog like corpses that get found they are just Coyotes or they are just Coyotes that have mated with the domestic dog and produced something even weirder than just a Coyote.

s:But you know they are funny looking to us. Especially if their hair is falling off and they are emaciated because they starve to death or something .

R: or the mange

S: Right or they have mange. They look bizarre - right.

B: <unintelligible through his pirate mask>
(13:00)
<banter>
J: Bob takes off more of his pirate clothes. Bob take the mask off.

R: you really need that hand.

B: You do not really want to see my hair.

B: Not only does the coyote look bizarre The process of decay also kinda does bizarre things.

J: So bob you are taking to us about decay now.

R: So your a zombie with an inside view of decay
(13:41)
B: It is a very interesting process. Do You know that there are some byproducts of the process of decay that the scientists named putracine and <??>. Isnt that interesting?

<banter>

S: That is strangly sexy. Wait did I say that out loud (14:10)

=== Magnetic monopoles ()===
[http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090903163725.htm ScienceDaily.com: Magnetic Monopoles Detected In A Real Magnet For The First Time]

S: We actually have a serious news item to talk about today. I highly recommend you take of the mask for this one bob.

B: No I am going to stick it out. (14:20)

B: How ofter do you get to take about magnetic monopoles as a pirate skeleton?

R: once or twice. 14:31

B: My friend Jack mentioned the title of this the other day at dinner and my first reaction was "no way" the next one was "holly crap". Because I have heard about magnetic monopoles for years and I thought we would never discover them. They are kinda bizarre things that had been predicted by theory going way back to 1931 with Paul Dirac. Theoretical Physicists said you can get a single magnetic pole like a north or a south. If you take a bar or horseshoe magnet and cut it in half you don't get a north here and a south here. You get a north and a south here and a north and a south here. Now there was no theoretical reason why you couldn't have single magnetic pole and it looks like these scientists may have discovered it. Jay do you have the name of that scientist - Jays German is really good.

J: Evan you do it.

E: Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie

J: oont energy (in mock german accent)

B: Yeah and we have permission from Germans to do this

R: The entire country.

B: The idea is that they found this crystal a berkinstal crystal that when you chill to near absolute zero the latice structure - the geometry of the crystal becomes bizare. It is actually it become like ice. Imagine a 4 sided pyramid - at the vertices's you have atoms. And if you chill to to really close to absolute zero the atoms that are really like bar magnets and they line up in a certain way and in some instances this creates a monopole in the midle of the pyramid. You can image a 4 sided pyramid with magnetic monopole in the middle appears - whether a south or a north appears. Now they did not see this to start with because the charges are so tiny. But by using neturon scattering they determined it and they firmly believe that these are real magnetic monopoles and they have some interesting application ins science. And I did find it very interesting. And I did not think it is was ever something that we would ever see. So read about it because it is interesting stuff.

S: When I heard this my first reactions was "no way - magnetic mono pole - come on"

B: (inaudible)

S: that was my second one "yeah science or fiction". If the cycle was just right I know I would have gotten bob on that one.

S: this is like a mythic thing. They have been saying for decades there is no such thing as a magnetic mono-pole, no-one has ever seen one. People have looked for them. Maybe they exist, maybe they dont.
So if this pans out. If this is replicable and this true then this is huge. Now suddenly there is magnetic monopoles. Like for my whole life up to this point there haven't been magnetic monopoles.

S: I think Rebecca you were saying that someone at one of your panels was asking how often you are surprised and change you mind from new evidence. Well how about today. This is huge.

R: well yesterday

J: But did these start out as a regular magnet ?

S: yeah they start out with magnetism and then they some how contrive to make a monopole. While bob and I were talking - are they really a monopole or is the other pole just diffused in the crystal somehow

B: Yeah that is always possible because they used an indirect method to detect it. But it is not just one institute and one study. It is an international team of scientists. and it is a couple of studies. They even created these monopoles a sort of a difuse sort of gas. And these guys are extremely confident that they have this. I mean we will see if it pans out but these guys are fairly confident about it.

S: Yeah this is not cold fusion. But this is big. But until it gets verified we are not going to be re-writing the text books right? We need a little more confirmation. But this the first time someone has made a plausible claim of having a magnetic mono pole. So cool.

J: I was excited because I thought it was magnetic monopoly

R: Actually when jack anounced at the dinner I was like magnetic monocles? Rad.

R: I would have liked to contribute to that discussion but I can concentrate on anything bob is saying. Thats all.

(banter)

S: So we love doing live questions and answers at our live gigs (19:02)

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SGU 24hr

2012-10-21T14:45:48Z

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SGU had a 24hour live streaming video event 23-24 September 2011. The video from this event is available from [http://www.justin.tv/skepticsguide/b/295824229 justin.tv]. An index to what happened when (but not a complete transcript) is available from [http://sgu24index.wikidot.com/ sgu24index] at WikiDot.

Guests on this show included: 

* Adam Savage
* Phil Plait
* Jamy Ian Swiss
* Australian Sceptics
* Richard Wiseman
* Brian Dunning
* George Hrab
* Tim Minchin
* Joshie Berger
* Fraser Cain
* Pamela Gay
* DJ Grothe

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2012-10-21T14:41:46Z

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'''Welcome to ''SGUTranscripts''!'''
We hope you have fun.
You will probably want to read the [[Help:Contents|help pages]].
Again, welcome and have fun! [[User:Rwh86|Rwh86]] ([[User talk:Rwh86|talk]]) 13:30, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for your help! One thing that might save you some time is you don't need to add <code><nowiki> </nowiki></code> after each line, just hit return twice and that gives you the new paragraph spacing. Also, we usually use "()" instead of "< >" for laughter etc. as the latter is often used in wiki mark-up syntax and might produce some unpredictable results (see [[Help:How_to_Contribute#Transcription|How to contribute]]). Welcome to the team! --[[User:Teleuteskitty|Teleuteskitty]] ([[User talk:Teleuteskitty|talk]]) 11:31, 21 October 2012 (UTC)

:Yeah the double return works if you edit in the Wiki. But I copy and paste from a text editor. Does it matter in the scheme of things?

:As to () vs <> I am happy to swap. [[User:Ttguy|Ttguy]] ([[User talk:Ttguy|talk]]) 14:41, 21 October 2012 (UTC)

SGU Episode 216

2012-10-20T15:38:37Z

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== Introduction ==
''You're listening to the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, your escape to reality.''

s: Today is Sunday September something - I think it is 6th and this is your host Steven Novella
Joining me as always are Rebeca Watson, Jay Novella, and Evan Burnstein. 
r:Hello 
e:Can we help you? 
r: You gotta love Dragon Con 
e: Its Adam Savage 
s: The q and a is at the end of this show 
r: can someone come here and help me out? 
<laughing> 
<bob arrives 1:25> 
b: I have a speech. 
s: and apparently bob novella 
e: Hey Bob 
b: Ohoy you chumy skummy bilge rats (in a pirate accent) 
s: Bob has always wants to say that 
r: I thought we above gimmick 
j: Rebeca - this isn't a gimmick - he is always wearing that 
s: well welcome to Dragon con. 
r: Look at you. Don't touch me. 
s: Bob is in his un-dead pirate costume for the listeners that are not here 
r: it works really well as a pod cast 
s: Oh yeah. Oh Yeah So you gotta love dragon con. 2:21 
s: first of all I want to thank Derek and Swoopy for getting skepticism and science and pod-casting in to a huge convention like this so thank-you Derrek
this is only our second year but all ready we love coming here. I mean how often do you get to have your picture taken with Alex from a clockwork orange? 
r: I'm hiding under the table. Not in a sexy way 
s: apparently Andy McDowell has done some other minor roles but we know what he was. But jay keeps calling him Roddy McDowell 
r: Yeah jay comes over to me and is like we met Roddy McDowell. Oh holly crap what did he look like. 
j: shut up 
<laughing> 
s: and it is also great because we get to meet a lot of our skeptical friends from around the world that we only have a virtual relationship with and which we don't get to see in person very often. We just met for the first time Dr Rachel Dunlop from Australia. And of course many old friends now.
s: Now I guess you are probably wondering why this picture is up there for. We've definitely noticed however that the skeptics are not in costume and it is starting to feel a little... 
b: <murmurs> 
s: ... most of the skeptics are not in costume. actually the four guys had a plan for a lame costume for dragon con. We were all going to grow goatees and come as our mirror image evil selves. But we failed but we could not grow decent goatees. 
r: George Rhab grew one over night 
s: It was pathetic. But here is the lovely Sheryl Loxten who was exploring steam punk as a possible skeptical costume. And I think she pulls it off very well. But we had to replicate this experiment. So. 
<some picture is shown> 
r: you are really making that work 
s: so you can see Rebeca looking on adoringly from the sidelines 
j/b: It is not adoringly Steve. As I was talking to her <unintelligible> 4:43 
s: Don't brush my melon 
r: Don't take my catch phrase 
?: thats yours? 
r: Well technically its don't <unintelligible> 
j/b: This picture is George (Rhab) with his incredibly large invisible girlfriend 
<picture> 
s: I love taking pictures of George Rhab because he is always the sharpest dressed guy in the room. Which I suspect is why he likes hanging out with skeptics 
j/b: we make him look good 
s: Yeah we lower the bar a little bit. Here we see that jay finally perfected that shrink ray he was working on. 
<picture> 
j: That was one hell of a night guys. 
s: Though he insists that not everything shrunk equally. 
s: wait for it. 
s: Last night at 12 o'clock when everyone is partying I am saying like we have to prep the show. We have to have to have a show tomorrow. This is Rebecca's response. 
<picture> 
r: you have no way of knowing 

== News Items ==

s: so we have a few news items that we are going to cover and then we are going to leave most of the show to some live questions - that is always our favorite part 
=== Item 1 (Google and UFOs)===
s: So yesterday we were looking through some news items and Rebecca found this one. 6:31 

r: I did. I get a google alert on the most ridiculous things and one of them is UFOs. And the Internet went crazy yesterday because google mysteriously put up a UFO logo and nobody could explain why. And normal people would be like oh Ok there's a UFO on Google. Thats great. Not normal people flood the internet with comments like the one you see on the screen there which I'll read in the style in which it is written. 
r: You won't believe it. I got a video that is showing a ufo. This could be most scaryiest video ever reported except look it up. 
r: And you know we got a chuckle out of this because what is it with Caps Lock and crazy people? Why? 
j/b: But Rebecca people use caps lock so much now we need something past that. So I was thinking we need super caps lock. It needs to be like twice as big and it needs to make noize. 
s: or yeah and it needs to be blinking. 
r: for when caps lock isn't crazy enough for you. 
r: But the best theory thought for it I saw for it was that yesterday in New Hampshire there was a UFO festival. So maybe thats why. Maybe because of Dragon Con. Who cares. The Internet cares obviously. 
<banter> 
 
[http://www.universetoday.com/39434/google-ufo-doodle-explained/ Google UFO Doodle Explained]

=== Item 2 (Mongolian death worm)===
s: So here we are looking at a picture of the Mongolian death worm. 8:14 
s: You have to say it like that or it does not mean the same thing 
r: you use super caps lock 
j/b: And this is clearly out of a D and D book 
S: right. The only thing more fierce than this is the Alaskan bull worm. And all you parents out there might get that reference. But other wise no - not so much. 
r: no no. 
s: I thought I had heard of everything but even Joe Nickle a famous cryptozoologist and sceptic had not heard of the mongolian death worm. 
r: I've heard of the mongolian death worm. I love the mongolian death worm. 
e: YOu thought is was a dance though. 
r: It is part of my ?? voice style 
j/b: That mouth obviously does detend (sic) damage. 
<banter> 
r: I love the mongolian death worm because take a creature that is not at all frightening - its just a worm - and yet somehow ... It like that thing from Tremors - is Tremors that one from Kevin Bacon? - 
s: Yes. 
s: And so yeah but to make is scary they say that it spits acid and farts lightning. (9:38) 
e: why are we talking about this 
s: we are talking about this because some guy called Richard Freeman - which I thought was the guy from halflife right - 
r: The nerd jokes are coming fast and furious now right 
s: we have got our nerd game up. 
s: So he thinks he found it right. He's launched a mission into the Gobi desert and said we are gonna find the Mongolian death worm or the things that sounds that and hes now got his press releases out saying after his expedition he doesn't have the actual worm. Right. But he says the worm certainly exists . When we talked to people in Mongolia they were all quite certain about that. They did not believe that it spits electricity but they did believe that it was venomous. 
<laughing about some joke unclear to us> 
s: They are very afraid of it. A whole family packed up their hut and moved when they heard of sightings of the worm. So we launched a scientific expedition into Mongolia and came back with anecdotes. That's research money well spent. 
b/j: Rebecca could you please read the first two sentences with cap locks. <10:47> 
r: the worms really exists we are quite certain of that. 
<banter> 11:00 

=== Item 3 (Chupacabra)===
s: Since we are on Cryptozoology - do you guys know what this is? 
audience: its a dog 
r: No its not a dog. It is obviously la Chupacabra. And you have to say it like that.
s: And when these things mature they turn into aliens of course. 
s: So this fell into the hands of a taxidermist in Texas who is going to preserve it for posterity. Now these kind of weird creatures get found - you know dead animals that look all wierd - get found all the time. And instead of say oh look at that weird dead animal that is partially decomposing . Now we've got infinite news cycle its got to be something that is supernatural. Right so if it is dogish its La Chupacabra right. That's what it is. although ... 
<laughing> <11:52> 
j: He's clearly been of his meds for the show man 
s: If you are going to say Chupacabra - I mean - you know ... 
r: do it right 
s: um. But I think its probably ... Oh heres the guy Jerry Air. And he says "I don't want to be known as the Chupacabra quack. But people say there is a mythical beast and that I have one. I'll call it Chupacabra because the people love it but I don't know what it is." - Jerry Air - Chupacabra Quack. 
s: But you know. Has anyone seen like a Coyote. They are like kinda weird looking dogs. So like half the time these dog like corpses that get found they are just Coyotes or they are just Coyotes that have mated with the domestic dog and produced something even weirder than just a Coyote. 
s:But you know they are funny looking to us. Especially if their hair is falling off and they are emaciated because they starve to death or something . 
r: or the mange 
s: Right or they have mange. They look bizarre - right. 
b: <unintelligible through his pirate mask> (13:00)
<banter>
j: Bob takes off more of his pirate clothes. Bob take the mask off. 
r: you really need that hand. 
b: You do not really want to see my hair. 
b: Not only does the coyote look bizarre The process of decay also kinda does bizarre things. 
j: So bob you are taking to us about decay now. 
r: So your a zombie with an inside view of decay (13:41)
b: It is a very interesting process. Do You know that there are some byproducts of the process of decay that the scientists named putracine and <??>. Isnt that interesting? 
<banter> 
s: That is strangly sexy. Wait did I say that out loud (14:10) 

=== Item 4 (Magnetic monopoles)===
s: We actually have a serious news item to talk about today. I highly recommend you take of the mask for this one bob. 
b: No I am going to stick it out. (14:20) 
b: How ofter do you get to take about magnetic monopoles as a pirate skeleton? 
r: once or twice. 14:31 
b: My friend Jack mentioned the title of this the other day at dinner and my first reaction was "no way" the next one was "holly crap". Because I have heard about magnetic monopoles for years and I thought we would never discover them. They are kinda bizarre things that had been predicted by theory going way back to 1931 with Paul Dirac. Theoretical Physicists said you can get a single magnetic pole like a north or a south. If you take a bar or horseshoe magnet and cut it in half you don't get a north here and a south here. You get a north and a south here and a north and a south here. Now there was no theoretical reason why you couldn't have single magnetic pole and it looks like these scientists may have discovered it. Jay do you have the name of that scientist - Jays German is really good. 
j: Evan you do it. 
e: Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie 
j: oont energy (in mock german accent) 
b: Yeah and we have permission from Germans to do this 
r: The entire country. 
b: The idea is that they found this crystal a berkinstal crystal that when you chill to near absolute zero the latice structure - the geometry of the crystal becomes bizare. It is actually it become like ice. Imagine a 4 sided pyramid - at the vertices's you have atoms. And if you chill to to really close to absolute zero the atoms that are really like bar magnets and they line up in a certain way and in some instances this creates a monopole in the midle of the pyramid. You can image a 4 sided pyramid with magnetic monopole in the middle appears - whether a south or a north appears. Now they did not see this to start with because the charges are so tiny. But by using neturon scattering they determined it and they firmly believe that these are real magnetic monopoles and they have some interesting application ins science. And I did find it very interesting. And I did not think it is was ever something that we would ever see. So read about it because it is interesting stuff.
 

s: When I heard this my first reactions was "no way - magnetic mono pole - come on" 
b: <unintelligible> 
s: that was my second one "yeah science or fiction". If the cycle was just right I know I would have gotten bob on that one. 
s: this is like a mythic thing. They have been saying for decades there is no such thing as a magnetic mono-pole, no-one has ever seen one. People have looked for them. Maybe they exist, maybe they dont.
So if this pans out. If this is replicable and this true then this is huge. Now suddenly there is magnetic monopoles. Like for my whole life up to this point there haven't been magnetic monopoles. 
s: I think Rebecca you were saying that someone at one of your panels was asking how often you are surprised and change you mind from new evidence. Well how about today. This is huge. 
r: well yesterday 
j: But did these start out as a regular magnet ? 
s: yeah they start out with magnetism and then they some how contrive to make a monopole. While bob and I were talking - are they really a monopole or is the other pole just diffused in the crystal somehow 
b: Yeah that is always possible because they used an indirect method to detect it. But it is not just one institute and one study. It is an international team of scientists. and it is a couple of studies. They even created these monopoles a sort of a difuse sort of gas. And these guys are extremely confident that they have this. I mean we will see if it pans out but these guys are fairly confident about it. 
s: Yeah this is not cold fusion. But this is big. But until it gets verified we are not going to be re-writing the text books right? We need a little more confirmation. But this the first time someone has made a plausible claim of having a magnetic mono pole. So cool. 
j: I was excited because I thought it was magnetic monopoly 
r: Actually when jack anounced at the dinner I was like magnetic monocles? Rad. 
r: I would have liked to contribute to that discussion but I can concentrate on anything bob is saying. Thats all. 
<banter> 
s: So we love doing live questions and answers at our live gigs (19:02) 

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SGU Episode 216

2012-10-20T15:37:57Z

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== Introduction ==
''You're listening to the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, your escape to reality.''

s: Today is Sunday September something - I think it is 6th and this is your host Steven Novella
Joining me as always are Rebeca Watson, Jay Novella, and Evan Burnstein. 
r:Hello 
e:Can we help you? 
r: You gotta love Dragon Con 
e: Its Adam Savage 
s: The q and a is at the end of this show 
r: can someone come here and help me out? 
<laughing> 
<bob arrives 1:25> 
b: I have a speech. 
s: and apparently bob novella 
e: Hey Bob 
b: Ohoy you chumy skummy bilge rats (in a pirate accent) 
s: Bob has always wants to say that 
r: I thought we above gimmick 
j: Rebeca - this isn't a gimmick - he is always wearing that 
s: well welcome to Dragon con. 
r: Look at you. Don't touch me. 
s: Bob is in his un-dead pirate costume for the listeners that are not here 
r: it works really well as a pod cast 
s: Oh yeah. Oh Yeah So you gotta love dragon con. 2:21 
s: first of all I want to thank Derek and Swoopy for getting skepticism and science and pod-casting in to a huge convention like this so thank-you Derrek
this is only our second year but all ready we love coming here. I mean how often do you get to have your picture taken with Alex from a clockwork orange? 
r: I'm hiding under the table. Not in a sexy way 
s: apparently Andy McDowell has done some other minor roles but we know what he was. But jay keeps calling him Roddy McDowell 
r: Yeah jay comes over to me and is like we met Roddy McDowell. Oh holly crap what did he look like. 
j: shut up 
<laughing> 
s: and it is also great because we get to meet a lot of our skeptical friends from around the world that we only have a virtual relationship with and which we don't get to see in person very often. We just met for the first time Dr Rachel Dunlop from Australia. And of course many old friends now.
s: Now I guess you are probably wondering why this picture is up there for. We've definitely noticed however that the skeptics are not in costume and it is starting to feel a little... 
b: <murmurs> 
s: ... most of the skeptics are not in costume. actually the four guys had a plan for a lame costume for dragon con. We were all going to grow goatees and come as our mirror image evil selves. But we failed but we could not grow decent goatees. 
r: George Rhab grew one over night 
s: It was pathetic. But here is the lovely Sheryl Loxten who was exploring steam punk as a possible skeptical costume. And I think she pulls it off very well. But we had to replicate this experiment. So. 
<some picture is shown> 
r: you are really making that work 
s: so you can see Rebeca looking on adoringly from the sidelines 
j/b: It is not adoringly Steve. As I was talking to her <unintelligible> 4:43 
s: Don't brush my melon 
r: Don't take my catch phrase 
?: thats yours? 
r: Well technically its don't <unintelligible> 
j/b: This picture is George (Rhab) with his incredibly large invisible girlfriend 
<picture> 
s: I love taking pictures of George Rhab because he is always the sharpest dressed guy in the room. Which I suspect is why he likes hanging out with skeptics 
j/b: we make him look good 
s: Yeah we lower the bar a little bit. Here we see that jay finally perfected that shrink ray he was working on. 
<picture> 
j: That was one hell of a night guys. 
s: Though he insists that not everything shrunk equally. 
s: wait for it. 
s: Last night at 12 o'clock when everyone is partying I am saying like we have to prep the show. We have to have to have a show tomorrow. This is Rebecca's response. 
<picture> 
r: you have no way of knowing 

== News Items ==

s: so we have a few news items that we are going to cover and then we are going to leave most of the show to some live questions - that is always our favorite part 
=== Item 1 (Google and UFOs)===
s: So yesterday we were looking through some news items and Rebecca found this one. 6:31 

r: I did. I get a google alert on the most ridiculous things and one of them is UFOs. And the Internet went crazy yesterday because google mysteriously put up a UFO logo and nobody could explain why. And normal people would be like oh Ok there's a UFO on Google. Thats great. Not normal people flood the internet with comments like the one you see on the screen there which I'll read in the style in which it is written. 
r: You won't believe it. I got a video that is showing a ufo. This could be most scaryiest video ever reported except look it up. 
r: And you know we got a chuckle out of this because what is it with Caps Lock and crazy people? Why? 
j/b: But Rebecca people use caps lock so much now we need something past that. So I was thinking we need super caps lock. It needs to be like twice as big and it needs to make noize. 
s: or yeah and it needs to be blinking. 
r: for when caps lock isn't crazy enough for you. 
r: But the best theory thought for it I saw for it was that yesterday in New Hampshire there was a UFO festival. So maybe thats why. Maybe because of Dragon Con. Who cares. The Internet cares obviously. 
<banter> 
 
[http://www.universetoday.com/39434/google-ufo-doodle-explained/ Google UFO Doodle Explained]

=== Item 2 (Mongolian death worm)===
s: So here we are looking at a picture of the Mongolian death worm. 8:14 
s: You have to say it like that or it does not mean the same thing 
r: you use super caps lock 
j/b: And this is clearly out of a D and D book 
S: right. The only thing more fierce than this is the Alaskan bull worm. And all you parents out there might get that reference. But other wise no - not so much. 
r: no no. 
s: I thought I had heard of everything but even Joe Nickle a famous cryptozoologist and sceptic had not heard of the mongolian death worm. 
r: I've heard of the mongolian death worm. I love the mongolian death worm. 
e: YOu thought is was a dance though. 
r: It is part of my ?? voice style 
j/b: That mouth obviously does detend (sic) damage. 
<banter> 
r: I love the mongolian death worm because take a creature that is not at all frightening - its just a worm - and yet somehow ... It like that thing from Tremors - is Tremors that one from Kevin Bacon? - 
s: Yes. 
s: And so yeah but to make is scary they say that it spits acid and farts lightning. (9:38) 
e: why are we talking about this 
s: we are talking about this because some guy called Richard Freeman - which I thought was the guy from halflife right - 
r: The nerd jokes are coming fast and furious now right 
s: we have got our nerd game up. 
s: So he thinks he found it right. He's launched a mission into the Gobi desert and said we are gonna find the Mongolian death worm or the things that sounds that and hes now got his press releases out saying after his expedition he doesn't have the actual worm. Right. But he says the worm certainly exists . When we talked to people in Mongolia they were all quite certain about that. They did not believe that it spits electricity but they did believe that it was venomous. 
<laughing about some joke unclear to us> 
s: They are very afraid of it. A whole family packed up their hut and moved when they heard of sightings of the worm. So we launched a scientific expedition into Mongolia and came back with anecdotes. That's research money well spent. 
b/j: Rebecca could you please read the first two sentences with cap locks. <10:47> 
r: the worms really exists we are quite certain of that. 
<banter> 11:00 

=== Item 3 (Chupacabra)===
s: Since we are on Cryptozoology - do you guys know what this is? 
audience: its a dog 
r: No its not a dog. It is obviously la Chupacabra. And you have to say it like that.
s: And when these things mature they turn into aliens of course. 
s: So this fell into the hands of a taxidermist in Texas who is going to preserve it for posterity. Now these kind of weird creatures get found - you know dead animals that look all wierd - get found all the time. And instead of say oh look at that weird dead animal that is partially decomposing . Now we've got infinite news cycle its got to be something that is supernatural. Right so if it is dogish its La Chupacabra right. That's what it is. although ... 
<laughing> <11:52> 
j: He's clearly been of his meds for the show man 
s: If you are going to say Chupacabra - I mean - you know ... 
r: do it right 
s: um. But I think its probably ... Oh heres the guy Jerry Air. And he says "I don't want to be known as the Chupacabra quack. But people say there is a mythical beast and that I have one. I'll call it Chupacabra because the people love it but I don't know what it is." - Jerry Air - Chupacabra Quack. 
s: But you know. Has anyone seen like a Coyote. They are like kinda weird looking dogs. So like half the time these dog like corpses that get found they are just Coyotes or they are just Coyotes that have mated with the domestic dog and produced something even weirder than just a Coyote. 
s:But you know they are funny looking to us. Especially if their hair is falling off and they are emaciated because they starve to death or something . 
r: or the mange 
s: Right or they have mange. They look bizarre - right. 
b: <unintelligible through his pirate mask> (13:00)
<banter>
j: Bob takes off more of his pirate clothes. Bob take the mask off. 
r: you really need that hand. 
b: You do not really want to see my hair. 
b: Not only does the coyote look bizarre The process of decay also kinda does bizarre things. 
j: So bob you are taking to us about decay now. 
r: So your a zombie with an inside view of decay (13:41)
b: It is a very interesting process. Do You know that there are some byproducts of the process of decay that the scientists named putracine and <??>. Isnt that interesting? 
<banter> 
s: That is strangly sexy. Wait did I say that out loud (14:10) 

=== Item 4 (Magnetic monopoles)===
s: We actually have a serious news item to talk about today. I highly recommend you take of the mask for this one bob. 
b: No I am going to stick it out. (14:20) 
b: How ofter do you get to take about magnetic monopoles as a pirate skeleton? 
r: once or twice. 14:31 
b: My friend Jack mentioned the title of this the other day at dinner and my first reaction was "no way" the next one was "holly crap" 
Because I have heard about magnetic monopoles for years and I thought we would never discover them. They are kinda bizarre things that had been predicted by theory going way back to 1931 with Paul Dirac. Theoretical Physicists said you can get a single magnetic pole like a north or a south. If you take a bar or horseshoe magnet and cut it in half you don't get a north here and a south here. You get a north and a south here and a north and a south here. Now there was no theoretical reason why you couldn't have single magnetic pole and it looks like these scientists may have discovered it. Jay do you have the name of that scientist - Jays German is really good. 
j: Evan you do it. 
e: Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie 
j: oont energy (in mock german accent) 
b: Yeah and we have permission from Germans to do this 
r: The entire country. 
b: The idea is that they found this crystal a berkinstal crystal that when you chill to near absolute zero the latice structure - the geometry of the crystal becomes bizare. It is actually it become like ice. Imagine a 4 sided pyramid - at the vertices's you have atoms. And if you chill to to really close to absolute zero the atoms that are really like bar magnets and they line up in a certain way and in some instances this creates a monopole in the midle of the pyramid. You can image a 4 sided pyramid with magnetic monopole in the middle appears - whether a south or a north appears. Now they did not see this to start with because the charges are so tiny. But by using neturon scattering they determined it and they firmly believe that these are real magnetic monopoles and they have some interesting application ins science. And I did find it very interesting. And I did not think it is was ever something that we would ever see. So read about it because it is interesting stuff.
 

s: When I heard this my first reactions was "no way - magnetic mono pole - come on" 
b: <unintelligible> 
s: that was my second one "yeah science or fiction". If the cycle was just right I know I would have gotten bob on that one. 
s: this is like a mythic thing. They have been saying for decades there is no such thing as a magnetic mono-pole, no-one has ever seen one. People have looked for them. Maybe they exist, maybe they dont.
So if this pans out. If this is replicable and this true then this is huge. Now suddenly there is magnetic monopoles. Like for my whole life up to this point there haven't been magnetic monopoles. 
s: I think Rebecca you were saying that someone at one of your panels was asking how often you are surprised and change you mind from new evidence. Well how about today. This is huge. 
r: well yesterday 
j: But did these start out as a regular magnet ? 
s: yeah they start out with magnetism and then they some how contrive to make a monopole. While bob and I were talking - are they really a monopole or is the other pole just diffused in the crystal somehow 
b: Yeah that is always possible because they used an indirect method to detect it. But it is not just one institute and one study. It is an international team of scientists. and it is a couple of studies. They even created these monopoles a sort of a difuse sort of gas. And these guys are extremely confident that they have this. I mean we will see if it pans out but these guys are fairly confident about it. 
s: Yeah this is not cold fusion. But this is big. But until it gets verified we are not going to be re-writing the text books right? We need a little more confirmation. But this the first time someone has made a plausible claim of having a magnetic mono pole. So cool. 
j: I was excited because I thought it was magnetic monopoly 
r: Actually when jack anounced at the dinner I was like magnetic monocles? Rad. 
r: I would have liked to contribute to that discussion but I can concentrate on anything bob is saying. Thats all. 
<banter> 
s: So we love doing live questions and answers at our live gigs (19:02) 

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SGU 24hr

2012-10-20T09:06:59Z

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* [[SGU Episode 378]], Oct 13 2012
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* [[SGU Episode 375]], Sep 22 2012 {{Open}}
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* [[SGU Episode 371]], Aug 25 2012 {{Open}}
* [[SGU Episode 370]], Aug 18 2012 {{Open}}
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* [[SGU Episode 368]], Aug 4 2012 {{Open}}
* [[SGU Episode 367]], Jul 28 2012 {{Open}}
* [[SGU Episode 366]], Jul 21 2012 {{Open}}
* [[SGU Episode 365]], Jul 14 2012
* [[SGU Episode 364]], Jul 7 2012 {{tick}}
* [[SGU Episode 363]], Jun 30 2012 {{tick}}
* [[SGU Episode 362]], Jun 23 2012 {{Open}}
* [[SGU Episode 361]], Jun 16 2012
* [[SGU Episode 360]], Jun 9 2012 {{tick}}
* [[SGU Episode 359]], Jun 2 2012
* [[SGU Episode 358]], May 26 2012
* [[SGU Episode 357]], May 19 2012
* [[SGU Episode 356]], May 12 2012
* [[SGU Episode 355]], May 5 2012
* [[SGU Episode 354]], Apr 28 2012
* [[SGU Episode 353]], Apr 21 2012
* [[SGU Episode 352]], Apr 14 2012
* [[SGU Episode 351]], Apr 7 2012
* [[SGU Episode 350]], Mar 31 2012 {{tick}}
* [[SGU Episode 349]], Mar 24 2012 {{Open}}
* [[SGU Episode 348]], Mar 17 2012
* [[SGU Episode 347]], Mar 10 2012
* [[SGU Episode 346]], Mar 3 2012
* [[SGU Episode 339]], Jan 14 2012
* [[SGU Episode 338]], Jan 7 2012 {{tick}}

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* [[SGU Episode 328]], Oct 29 2011
* [[SGU 24hr]], Sep 23-24 2011
* [[SGU Episode 320]], Aug 29 2011
* [[SGU Episode 312]], Jul 5 2011 {{i}}
* [[SGU Episode 308]], Jun 08 2011 {{Open}}
* [[SGU Episode 287]], Jan 12 2011 {{i}}
|valign="top" style=white-space:nowrap|<big>'''2010'''</big>
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* [[SGU Episode 271]], Sep 22 2010
* [[SGU Episode 260]], Jun 30 2010 {{i}}
* [[SGU Episode 252]], May 12 2010

<big>'''2009'''</big>
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* [[SGU Episode 220]], Oct 7 2009 {{i}}
* [[SGU Episode 216]], Sep 9 2009 {{i}}
* [[SGU Episode 185]], Feb 4 2009 {{i}}
* [[SGU Episode 184]], Jan 28 2009

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* [[SGU Episode 165]], Sep 17 2008
* [[SGU Episode 156]], Jul 16 2008 {{tick}}
* [[SGU Episode 146]], May 7 2008
* [[SGU Episode 144]], Apr 23 2008 {{tick}}
* [[SGU Episode 140]], Mar 26 2008 {{i}}

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* [[SGU Episode 123]], Nov 28, 2007 {{Open}}
* [[SGU Episode 109]], Aug 24, 2007
* [[SGU Episode 105]], Jul 25, 2007 {{i}}
* [[SGU Episode 98]], June 6, 2007 {{i}}
* [[SGU Episode 97]], May 30 2007 {{i}}
* [[SGU Episode 89]], Apr 4, 2007 {{i}}
* [[SGU Episode 79]], Jan 24, 2007

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* [[SGU Episode 62]], Sep 27 2006
* [[SGU Episode 47]], Jun 14 2006 {{i}}
* [[SGU Episode 46]], Jun 7 2006 {{i}}
* [[SGU Episode 31]], Feb 22 2006 {{Open}}

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* [[SGU Episode 7]], July 20 2005 {{i}}
* [[SGU Episode 6]], July 7 2005
* [[SGU Episode 5]], Jun 29 2005
* [[SGU Episode 4]], Jun 15 2005 {{i}}
* [[SGU Episode 3]], Jun 7 2005 {{i}}
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SGU Episode 216

2012-10-20T08:32:13Z

Ttguy: /* Item 1 (Google and UFOs) - link to universe today*/

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== Introduction ==
''You're listening to the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, your escape to reality.''

s: Today is Sunday September something - I think it is 6th and this is your host Steven Novella
Joining me as always are Rebeca Watson, Jay Novella, and Evan Burnstein. 
r:Hello 
e:Can we help you? 
r: You gotta love Dragon Con 
e: Its Adam Savage 
s: The q and a is at the end of this show 
r: can someone come here and help me out? 
<laughing> 
<bob arrives 1:25> 
b: I have a speech. 
s: and apparently bob novella 
e: Hey Bob 
b: Ohoy you chumy skummy bilge rats (in a pirate accent) 
s: Bob has always wants to say that 
r: I thought we above gimmick 
j: Rebeca - this isn't a gimmick - he is always wearing that 
s: well welcome to Dragon con. 
r: Look at you. Don't touch me. 
s: Bob is in his un-dead pirate costume for the listeners that are not here 
r: it works really well as a pod cast 
s: Oh yeah. Oh Yeah So you gotta love dragon con. 2:21 
s: first of all I want to thank Derek and Swoopy for getting skepticism and science and pod-casting in to a huge convention like this so thank-you Derrek
this is only our second year but all ready we love coming here. I mean how often do you get to have your picture taken with Alex from a clockwork orange? 
r: I'm hiding under the table. Not in a sexy way 
s: apparently Andy McDowell has done some other minor roles but we know what he was. But jay keeps calling him Roddy McDowell 
r: Yeah jay comes over to me and is like we met Roddy McDowell. Oh holly crap what did he look like. 
j: shut up 
<laughing> 
s: and it is also great because we get to meet a lot of our skeptical friends from around the world that we only have a virtual relationship with and which we don't get to see in person very often. We just met for the first time Dr Rachel Dunlop from Australia. And of course many old friends now.
s: Now I guess you are probably wondering why this picture is up there for. We've definitely noticed however that the skeptics are not in costume and it is starting to feel a little... 
b: <murmurs> 
s: ... most of the skeptics are not in costume. actually the four guys had a plan for a lame costume for dragon con. We were all going to grow goatees and come as our mirror image evil selves. But we failed but we could not grow decent goatees. 
r: George Rhab grew one over night 
s: It was pathetic. But here is the lovely Sheryl Loxten who was exploring steam punk as a possible skeptical costume. And I think she pulls it off very well. But we had to replicate this experiment. So. 
<some picture is shown> 
r: you are really making that work 
s: so you can see Rebeca looking on adoringly from the sidelines 
j/b: It is not adoringly Steve. As I was talking to her <unintelligible> 4:43 
s: Don't brush my melon 
r: Don't take my catch phrase 
?: thats yours? 
r: Well technically its don't <unintelligible> 
j/b: This picture is George (Rhab) with his incredibly large invisible girlfriend 
<picture> 
s: I love taking pictures of George Rhab because he is always the sharpest dressed guy in the room. Which I suspect is why he likes hanging out with skeptics 
j/b: we make him look good 
s: Yeah we lower the bar a little bit. Here we see that jay finally perfected that shrink ray he was working on. 
<picture> 
j: That was one hell of a night guys. 
s: Though he insists that not everything shrunk equally. 
s: wait for it. 
s: Last night at 12 o'clock when everyone is partying I am saying like we have to prep the show. We have to have to have a show tomorrow. This is Rebecca's response. 
<picture> 
r: you have no way of knowing 

== News Items ==

s: so we have a few news items that we are going to cover and then we are going to leave most of the show to some live questions - that is always our favorite part 
=== Item 1 (Google and UFOs)===
s: So yesterday we were looking through some news items and Rebecca found this one. 6:31 

r: I did. I get a google alert on the most ridiculous things and one of them is UFOs. And the Internet went crazy yesterday because google mysteriously put up a UFO logo and nobody could explain why. And normal people would be like oh Ok there's a UFO on Google. Thats great. Not normal people flood the internet with comments like the one you see on the screen there which I'll read in the style in which it is written. 
r: You won't believe it. I got a video that is showing a ufo. This could be most scaryiest video ever reported except look it up. 
r: And you know we got a chuckle out of this because what is it with Caps Lock and crazy people? Why? 
j/b: But Rebecca people use caps lock so much now we need something past that. So I was thinking we need super caps lock. It needs to be like twice as big and it needs to make noize. 
s: or yeah and it needs to be blinking. 
r: for when caps lock isn't crazy enough for you. 
r: But the best theory thought for it I saw for it was that yesterday in New Hampshire there was a UFO festival. So maybe thats why. Maybe because of Dragon Con. Who cares. The Internet cares obviously. 
<banter> 
 
[http://www.universetoday.com/39434/google-ufo-doodle-explained/ Google UFO Doodle Explained]

=== Item 2 (Mongolian death worm)===
s: So here we are looking at a picture of the Mongolian death worm. 8:14 
s: You have to say it like that or it does not mean the same thing 
r: you use super caps lock 
j/b: And this is clearly out of a D and D book 
S: right. The only thing more fierce than this is the Alaskan bull worm. And all you parents out there might get that reference. But other wise no - not so much. 
r: no no. 
s: I thought I had heard of everything but even Joe Nickle a famous cryptozoologist and sceptic had not heard of the mongolian death worm. 
r: I've heard of the mongolian death worm. I love the mongolian death worm. 
e: YOu thought is was a dance though. 
r: It is part of my ?? voice style 
j/b: That mouth obviously does detend (sic) damage. 
<banter> 
r: I love the mongolian death worm because take a creature that is not at all frightening - its just a worm - and yet somehow ... It like that thing from Tremors - is Tremors that one from Kevin Bacon? - 
s: Yes. 
s: And so yeah but to make is scary they say that it spits acid and farts lightning. (9:38) 
e: why are we talking about this 
s: we are talking about this because some guy called Richard Freeman - which I thought was the guy from halflife right - 
r: The nerd jokes are coming fast and furious now right 
s: we have got our nerd game up. 
s: So he thinks he found it right. He's launched a mission into the Gobi desert and said we are gonna find the Mongolian death worm or the things that sounds that and hes now got his press releases out saying after his expedition he doesn't have the actual worm. Right. But he says the worm certainly exists . When we talked to people in Mongolia they were all quite certain about that. They did not believe that it spits electricity but they did believe that it was venomous. 
<laughing about some joke unclear to us> 
s: They are very afraid of it. A whole family packed up their hut and moved when they heard of sightings of the worm. So we launched a scientific expedition into Mongolia and came back with anecdotes. That's research money well spent. 
b/j: Rebecca could you please read the first two sentences with cap locks. <10:47> 
r: the worms really exists we are quite certain of that. 
<banter> 11:00 

=== Item 3 (Chupacabra)===
s: Since we are on Cryptozoology - do you guys know what this is? 
audience: its a dog 
r: No its not a dog. It is obviously la Chupacabra. And you have to say it like that.
s: And when these things mature they turn into aliens of course. 
s: So this fell into the hands of a taxidermist in Texas who is going to preserve it for posterity. Now these kind of weird creatures get found - you know dead animals that look all wierd - get found all the time. And instead of say oh look at that weird dead animal that is partially decomposing . Now we've got infinite news cycle its got to be something that is supernatural. Right so if it is dogish its La Chupacabra right. That's what it is. although ... 
<laughing> <11:52> 
j: He's clearly been of his meds for the show man 
s: If you are going to say Chupacabra - I mean - you know ... 
r: do it right 
s: um. But I think its probably ... Oh heres the guy Jerry Air. And he says "I don't want to be known as the Chupacabra quack. But people say there is a mythical beast and that I have one. I'll call it Chupacabra because the people love it but I don't know what it is." - Jerry Air - Chupacabra Quack. 
s: But you know. Has anyone seen like a Coyote. They are like kinda weird looking dogs. So like half the time these dog like corpses that get found they are just Coyotes or they are just Coyotes that have mated with the domestic dog and produced something even weirder than just a Coyote. 
s:But you know they are funny looking to us. Especially if their hair is falling off and they are emaciated because they starve to death or something . 
r: or the mange 
s: Right or they have mange. They look bizarre - right. 
b: <unintelligible through his pirate mask> (13:00)
<banter>
j: Bob takes off more of his pirate clothes. Bob take the mask off. 
r: you really need that hand. 
b: You do not really want to see my hair. 
b: Not only does the coyote look bizarre The process of decay also kinda does bizarre things. 
j: So bob you are taking to us about decay now. 
r: So your a zombie with an inside view of decay (13:41)
b: It is a very interesting process. Do You know that there are some byproducts of the process of decay that the scientists named putracine and <??>. Isnt that interesting? 
<banter> 
s: That is strangly sexy. Wait did I say that out loud (14:10) 

=== Item 4 (Magnetic monopoles)===
s: We actually have a serious news item to talk about today. I highly recommend you take of the mask for this one bob. 
b: No I am going to stick it out. (14:20) 
b: How ofter do you get to take about magnetic monopoles as a pirate skeleton? 
r: once or twice. 14:31 
b: My friend Jack mentioned the title of this the other day at dinner and my first reaction was "no way" the next one was "holly crap" 

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SGU Episode 216

2012-10-20T08:29:49Z

Ttguy: up to 14:47

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== Introduction ==
''You're listening to the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, your escape to reality.''

s: Today is Sunday September something - I think it is 6th and this is your host Steven Novella
Joining me as always are Rebeca Watson, Jay Novella, and Evan Burnstein. 
r:Hello 
e:Can we help you? 
r: You gotta love Dragon Con 
e: Its Adam Savage 
s: The q and a is at the end of this show 
r: can someone come here and help me out? 
<laughing> 
<bob arrives 1:25> 
b: I have a speech. 
s: and apparently bob novella 
e: Hey Bob 
b: Ohoy you chumy skummy bilge rats (in a pirate accent) 
s: Bob has always wants to say that 
r: I thought we above gimmick 
j: Rebeca - this isn't a gimmick - he is always wearing that 
s: well welcome to Dragon con. 
r: Look at you. Don't touch me. 
s: Bob is in his un-dead pirate costume for the listeners that are not here 
r: it works really well as a pod cast 
s: Oh yeah. Oh Yeah So you gotta love dragon con. 2:21 
s: first of all I want to thank Derek and Swoopy for getting skepticism and science and pod-casting in to a huge convention like this so thank-you Derrek
this is only our second year but all ready we love coming here. I mean how often do you get to have your picture taken with Alex from a clockwork orange? 
r: I'm hiding under the table. Not in a sexy way 
s: apparently Andy McDowell has done some other minor roles but we know what he was. But jay keeps calling him Roddy McDowell 
r: Yeah jay comes over to me and is like we met Roddy McDowell. Oh holly crap what did he look like. 
j: shut up 
<laughing> 
s: and it is also great because we get to meet a lot of our skeptical friends from around the world that we only have a virtual relationship with and which we don't get to see in person very often. We just met for the first time Dr Rachel Dunlop from Australia. And of course many old friends now.
s: Now I guess you are probably wondering why this picture is up there for. We've definitely noticed however that the skeptics are not in costume and it is starting to feel a little... 
b: <murmurs> 
s: ... most of the skeptics are not in costume. actually the four guys had a plan for a lame costume for dragon con. We were all going to grow goatees and come as our mirror image evil selves. But we failed but we could not grow decent goatees. 
r: George Rhab grew one over night 
s: It was pathetic. But here is the lovely Sheryl Loxten who was exploring steam punk as a possible skeptical costume. And I think she pulls it off very well. But we had to replicate this experiment. So. 
<some picture is shown> 
r: you are really making that work 
s: so you can see Rebeca looking on adoringly from the sidelines 
j/b: It is not adoringly Steve. As I was talking to her <unintelligible> 4:43 
s: Don't brush my melon 
r: Don't take my catch phrase 
?: thats yours? 
r: Well technically its don't <unintelligible> 
j/b: This picture is George (Rhab) with his incredibly large invisible girlfriend 
<picture> 
s: I love taking pictures of George Rhab because he is always the sharpest dressed guy in the room. Which I suspect is why he likes hanging out with skeptics 
j/b: we make him look good 
s: Yeah we lower the bar a little bit. Here we see that jay finally perfected that shrink ray he was working on. 
<picture> 
j: That was one hell of a night guys. 
s: Though he insists that not everything shrunk equally. 
s: wait for it. 
s: Last night at 12 o'clock when everyone is partying I am saying like we have to prep the show. We have to have to have a show tomorrow. This is Rebecca's response. 
<picture> 
r: you have no way of knowing 

== News Items ==

s: so we have a few news items that we are going to cover and then we are going to leave most of the show to some live questions - that is always our favorite part 
=== Item 1 (Google and UFOs)===
s: So yesterday we were looking through some news items and Rebecca found this one. 6:31 

r: I did. I get a google alert on the most ridiculous things and one of them is UFOs. And the Internet went crazy yesterday because google mysteriously put up a UFO logo and nobody could explain why. And normal people would be like oh Ok there's a UFO on Google. Thats great. Not normal people flood the internet with comments like the one you see on the screen there which I'll read in the style in which it is written. 
r: You won't believe it. I got a video that is showing a ufo. This could be most scaryiest video ever reported except look it up. 
r: And you know we got a chuckle out of this because what is it with Caps Lock and crazy people? Why? 
j/b: But Rebecca people use caps lock so much now we need something past that. So I was thinking we need super caps lock. It needs to be like twice as big and it needs to make noize. 
s: or yeah and it needs to be blinking. 
r: for when caps lock isn't crazy enough for you. 
r: But the best theory thought for it I saw for it was that yesterday in New Hampshire there was a UFO festival. So maybe thats why. Maybe because of Dragon Con. Who cares. The Internet cares obviously. 
<banter>
=== Item 2 (Mongolian death worm)===
s: So here we are looking at a picture of the Mongolian death worm. 8:14 
s: You have to say it like that or it does not mean the same thing 
r: you use super caps lock 
j/b: And this is clearly out of a D and D book 
S: right. The only thing more fierce than this is the Alaskan bull worm. And all you parents out there might get that reference. But other wise no - not so much. 
r: no no. 
s: I thought I had heard of everything but even Joe Nickle a famous cryptozoologist and sceptic had not heard of the mongolian death worm. 
r: I've heard of the mongolian death worm. I love the mongolian death worm. 
e: YOu thought is was a dance though. 
r: It is part of my ?? voice style 
j/b: That mouth obviously does detend (sic) damage. 
<banter> 
r: I love the mongolian death worm because take a creature that is not at all frightening - its just a worm - and yet somehow ... It like that thing from Tremors - is Tremors that one from Kevin Bacon? - 
s: Yes. 
s: And so yeah but to make is scary they say that it spits acid and farts lightning. (9:38) 
e: why are we talking about this 
s: we are talking about this because some guy called Richard Freeman - which I thought was the guy from halflife right - 
r: The nerd jokes are coming fast and furious now right 
s: we have got our nerd game up. 
s: So he thinks he found it right. He's launched a mission into the Gobi desert and said we are gonna find the Mongolian death worm or the things that sounds that and hes now got his press releases out saying after his expedition he doesn't have the actual worm. Right. But he says the worm certainly exists . When we talked to people in Mongolia they were all quite certain about that. They did not believe that it spits electricity but they did believe that it was venomous. 
<laughing about some joke unclear to us> 
s: They are very afraid of it. A whole family packed up their hut and moved when they heard of sightings of the worm. So we launched a scientific expedition into Mongolia and came back with anecdotes. That's research money well spent. 
b/j: Rebecca could you please read the first two sentences with cap locks. <10:47> 
r: the worms really exists we are quite certain of that. 
<banter> 11:00 

=== Item 3 (Chupacabra)===
s: Since we are on Cryptozoology - do you guys know what this is? 
audience: its a dog 
r: No its not a dog. It is obviously la Chupacabra. And you have to say it like that.
s: And when these things mature they turn into aliens of course. 
s: So this fell into the hands of a taxidermist in Texas who is going to preserve it for posterity. Now these kind of weird creatures get found - you know dead animals that look all wierd - get found all the time. And instead of say oh look at that weird dead animal that is partially decomposing . Now we've got infinite news cycle its got to be something that is supernatural. Right so if it is dogish its La Chupacabra right. That's what it is. although ... 
<laughing> <11:52> 
j: He's clearly been of his meds for the show man 
s: If you are going to say Chupacabra - I mean - you know ... 
r: do it right 
s: um. But I think its probably ... Oh heres the guy Jerry Air. And he says "I don't want to be known as the Chupacabra quack. But people say there is a mythical beast and that I have one. I'll call it Chupacabra because the people love it but I don't know what it is." - Jerry Air - Chupacabra Quack. 
s: But you know. Has anyone seen like a Coyote. They are like kinda weird looking dogs. So like half the time these dog like corpses that get found they are just Coyotes or they are just Coyotes that have mated with the domestic dog and produced something even weirder than just a Coyote. 
s:But you know they are funny looking to us. Especially if their hair is falling off and they are emaciated because they starve to death or something . 
r: or the mange 
s: Right or they have mange. They look bizarre - right. 
b: <unintelligible through his pirate mask> (13:00)
<banter>
j: Bob takes off more of his pirate clothes. Bob take the mask off. 
r: you really need that hand. 
b: You do not really want to see my hair. 
b: Not only does the coyote look bizarre The process of decay also kinda does bizarre things. 
j: So bob you are taking to us about decay now. 
r: So your a zombie with an inside view of decay (13:41)
b: It is a very interesting process. Do You know that there are some byproducts of the process of decay that the scientists named putracine and <??>. Isnt that interesting? 
<banter> 
s: That is strangly sexy. Wait did I say that out loud (14:10) 

=== Item 4 (Magnetic monopoles)===
s: We actually have a serious news item to talk about today. I highly recommend you take of the mask for this one bob. 
b: No I am going to stick it out. (14:20) 
b: How ofter do you get to take about magnetic monopoles as a pirate skeleton? 
r: once or twice. 14:31 
b: My friend Jack mentioned the title of this the other day at dinner and my first reaction was "no way" the next one was "holly crap" 

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SGU Episode 216

2012-10-20T07:40:57Z

Ttguy: 9:38 - 11 mins

SGU Episode 216

2012-10-18T14:21:10Z

Ttguy: /* Item 2 (Mongolian death worm) - 9:38*/

SGU Episode 216

2012-10-18T14:05:40Z

Ttguy: headings

SGU Episode 216

2012-10-18T13:54:30Z

Ttguy: up to 8:14

SGU Episode 216

2012-10-17T21:11:05Z

Ttguy: 4:43 to 6:10

SGU Episode 216

2012-10-17T20:55:12Z

Ttguy: remove the this is a draft of the template

SGU Episode 216

2012-10-17T15:05:14Z

Ttguy: corrections to the episode box

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[http://www.theskepticsguide.org/archive/podcastinfo.aspx?mid=1&pid=216 show notes]

== Introduction ==
''You're listening to the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, your escape to reality.''

s: Today is Sunday September something - I think it is 6th and this is your host Steven Novella
Joining me as always are Rebeca Watson, Jay Novella, and Evan Burnstein. 
r:Hello 
e:Can we help you? 
r: You gotta love Dragon Con 
e: Its Adam Savage 
s: The q and a is at the end of this show 
r: can someone come here and help me out? 
<laughing> 
<bob arrives 1:25> 
b: I have a speech. 
s: and apparently bob novella 
e: Hey Bob 
b: Ohoy you chumy skummy bilge rats (in a pirate accent) 
s: Bob has always wants to say that 
r: I thought we above gimmick 
j: Rebeca - this isn't a gimmick - he is always wearing that 
s: well welcome to Dragon con. 
r: Look at you. Don't touch me. 
s: Bob is in his un-dead pirate costume for the listeners that are not here 
r: it works really well as a pod cast 
s: Oh yeah. Oh Yeah So you gotta love dragon con. 2:21 
s: first of all I want to thank Derek and Swoopy for getting skepticism and science and pod-casting in to a huge convention like this so thank-you Derrek
this is only our second year but all ready we love coming here. I mean how often do you get to have your picture taken with Alex from a clockwork orange? 
r: I'm hiding under the table. Not in a sexy way 
s: apparently Andy McDowell has done some other minor roles but we know what he was. But jay keeps calling him Roddy McDowell 
r: Yeah jay comes over to me and is like we met Roddy McDowell. Oh holly crap what did he look like. 
j: shut up 
<laughing> 
s: and it is also great because we get to meet a lot of our skeptical friends from around the world that we only have a virtual relationship with and which we don't get to see in person very often. We just met for the first time Dr Rachel Dunlop from Australia. And of course many old friends now.
s: Now I guess you are probably wondering why this picture is up there for. We've definitely noticed however that the skeptics are not in costume and it is starting to feel a little... 
b: <murmurs> 
s: ... most of the skeptics are not in costume. actually the four guys had a plan for a lame costume for dragon con. We were all going to grow goatees and come as our mirror image evil selves. But we failed but we could not grow decent goatees. 
r: George Rhab grew one over night 
s: It was pathetic. But here is the lovely Sheryl Loxten who was exploring steam punk as a possible skeptical costume. And I think she pulls it off very well. But we had to replicate this experiment. So. 
<some picture is shown> 
r: you are really making that work 
s: so you can see Rebeca looking on adoringly from the sidelines 
j/b: It is not adoringly Steve. 4:43 

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=== Item 1 ()===

== Who's That Noisy? ()==

== Questions and Emails () ==
=== Question 1 ()===
=== Question 2 ()===

== Interview with "..." () ==

== Science or Fiction () ==

== Skeptical Quote of the Week () ==
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{{Outro1}} 

== References ==
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SGU Episode 216

2012-10-17T15:00:31Z

Ttguy: /* Introduction first 4mins 43 seconds. Blood hard work and borring - I have just noticed*/

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[http://www.theskepticsguide.org/archive/podcastinfo.aspx?mid=1&pid=216 show notes]

== Introduction ==
''You're listening to the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, your escape to reality.''

s: Today is Sunday September something - I think it is 6th and this is your host Steven Novella
Joining me as always are Rebeca Watson, Jay Novella, and Evan Burnstein. 
r:Hello 
e:Can we help you? 
r: You gotta love Dragon Con 
e: Its Adam Savage 
s: The q and a is at the end of this show 
r: can someone come here and help me out? 
<laughing> 
<bob arrives 1:25> 
b: I have a speech. 
s: and apparently bob novella 
e: Hey Bob 
b: Ohoy you chumy skummy bilge rats (in a pirate accent) 
s: Bob has always wants to say that 
r: I thought we above gimmick 
j: Rebeca - this isn't a gimmick - he is always wearing that 
s: well welcome to Dragon con. 
r: Look at you. Don't touch me. 
s: Bob is in his un-dead pirate costume for the listeners that are not here 
r: it works really well as a pod cast 
s: Oh yeah. Oh Yeah So you gotta love dragon con. 2:21 
s: first of all I want to thank Derek and Swoopy for getting skepticism and science and pod-casting in to a huge convention like this so thank-you Derrek
this is only our second year but all ready we love coming here. I mean how often do you get to have your picture taken with Alex from a clockwork orange? 
r: I'm hiding under the table. Not in a sexy way 
s: apparently Andy McDowell has done some other minor roles but we know what he was. But jay keeps calling him Roddy McDowell 
r: Yeah jay comes over to me and is like we met Roddy McDowell. Oh holly crap what did he look like. 
j: shut up 
<laughing> 
s: and it is also great because we get to meet a lot of our skeptical friends from around the world that we only have a virtual relationship with and which we don't get to see in person very often. We just met for the first time Dr Rachel Dunlop from Australia. And of course many old friends now.
s: Now I guess you are probably wondering why this picture is up there for. We've definitely noticed however that the skeptics are not in costume and it is starting to feel a little... 
b: <murmurs> 
s: ... most of the skeptics are not in costume. actually the four guys had a plan for a lame costume for dragon con. We were all going to grow goatees and come as our mirror image evil selves. But we failed but we could not grow decent goatees. 
r: George Rhab grew one over night 
s: It was pathetic. But here is the lovely Sheryl Loxten who was exploring steam punk as a possible skeptical costume. And I think she pulls it off very well. But we had to replicate this experiment. So. 
<some picture is shown> 
r: you are really making that work 
s: so you can see Rebeca looking on adoringly from the sidelines 
j/b: It is not adoringly Steve. 4:43 

== This Day in Skepticism () ==

== News Items ==
=== Item 1 ()===

== Who's That Noisy? ()==

== Questions and Emails () ==
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=== Question 2 ()===

== Interview with "..." () ==

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2012-10-17T14:09:13Z

Ttguy: add in progress tag and fix date on ep 216

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* [[SGU Episode 354]], Apr 28 2012
* [[SGU Episode 353]], Apr 21 2012
* [[SGU Episode 352]], Apr 14 2012
* [[SGU Episode 351]], Apr 7 2012
* [[SGU Episode 350]], Mar 31 2012 {{tick}}
* [[SGU Episode 349]], Mar 24 2012 {{Open}}
* [[SGU Episode 348]], Mar 17 2012
* [[SGU Episode 347]], Mar 10 2012
* [[SGU Episode 346]], Mar 3 2012
* [[SGU Episode 339]], Jan 14 2012
* [[SGU Episode 338]], Jan 7 2012 {{tick}}

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* [[SGU Episode 328]], Oct 29 2011
* [[SGU Episode 320]], Aug 29 2011
* [[SGU Episode 308]], Jun 08 2011 {{Open}}
|valign="top" style=white-space:nowrap|<big>'''2010'''</big>
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* [[SGU Episode 271]], Sep 22 2010
* [[SGU Episode 260]], Jun 30 2010 {{i}}
* [[SGU Episode 252]], May 12 2010

<big>'''2009'''</big>
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* [[SGU Episode 216]], Sep 9 2009 {{i}}
* [[SGU Episode 185]], Feb 4 2009 {{i}}
* [[SGU Episode 184]], Jan 28 2009

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* [[SGU Episode 165]], Sep 17 2008
* [[SGU Episode 156]], Jul 16 2008 {{tick}}
* [[SGU Episode 146]], May 7 2008
* [[SGU Episode 144]], Apr 23 2008 {{tick}}
* [[SGU Episode 140]], Mar 26 2008 {{i}}

<big>'''2007'''</big>
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* [[SGU Episode 123]], Nov 28, 2007 {{Open}}
* [[SGU Episode 109]], Aug 24, 2007
* [[SGU Episode 105]], Jul 25, 2007 {{i}}
* [[SGU Episode 97]], May 30 2007 {{i}}
* [[SGU Episode 89]], Apr 4, 2007 {{i}}
* [[SGU Episode 79]], Jan 24, 2007

<big>'''2006'''</big>
----
* [[SGU Episode 62]], Sep 27 2006
* [[SGU Episode 47]], Jun 14 2006 {{i}}
* [[SGU Episode 46]], Jun 7 2006 {{i}}
* [[SGU Episode 31]], Feb 22 2006 {{Open}}

<big>'''2005'''</big>
----
* [[SGU Episode 6]], July 7 2005 {{i}}
* [[SGU Episode 5]], Jun 29 2005
* [[SGU Episode 4]], Jun 15 2005 {{i}}
* [[SGU Episode 3]], Jun 7 2005 {{i}}
* [[SGU Episode 2]], Jun 1 2005
* [[SGU Episode 1]], May 4 2005 {{tick}}
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SGU Episode 216

2012-10-17T14:06:11Z

Ttguy: remove latest episode template

SGU Episode 216

2012-10-17T14:05:24Z

Ttguy: create from template

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[http://www.theskepticsguide.org/archive/podcastinfo.aspx?mid=1&pid=216 show notes]

== Introduction ==
''You're listening to the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, your escape to reality.''

== This Day in Skepticism () ==

== News Items ==
=== Item 1 ()===

== Who's That Noisy? ()==

== Questions and Emails () ==
=== Question 1 ()===
=== Question 2 ()===

== Interview with "..." () ==

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2012-10-17T13:59:19Z

Ttguy: add ep 216

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* [[SGU Episode 376]], Sep 29 2012 {{Open}}
* [[SGU Episode 375]], Sep 22 2012 {{Open}}
* [[SGU Episode 374]], Sep 15 2012 {{Open}}
* [[SGU Episode 373]], Sep 8 2012 {{Open}}
* [[SGU Episode 372]], Sep 1 2012 {{Open}}
* [[SGU Episode 371]], Aug 25 2012 {{Open}}
* [[SGU Episode 370]], Aug 18 2012 {{Open}}
* [[SGU Episode 369]], Aug 11 2012 {{Open}}
* [[SGU Episode 368]], Aug 4 2012 {{Open}}
* [[SGU Episode 367]], Jul 28 2012 {{Open}}
* [[SGU Episode 366]], Jul 21 2012 {{Open}}
* [[SGU Episode 365]], Jul 14 2012
* [[SGU Episode 364]], Jul 7 2012 {{tick}}
* [[SGU Episode 363]], Jun 30 2012 {{tick}}
* [[SGU Episode 362]], Jun 23 2012 {{Open}}
* [[SGU Episode 361]], Jun 16 2012
* [[SGU Episode 360]], Jun 9 2012 {{tick}}
* [[SGU Episode 359]], Jun 2 2012
* [[SGU Episode 358]], May 26 2012
* [[SGU Episode 357]], May 19 2012
* [[SGU Episode 356]], May 12 2012
* [[SGU Episode 355]], May 5 2012
* [[SGU Episode 354]], Apr 28 2012
* [[SGU Episode 353]], Apr 21 2012
* [[SGU Episode 352]], Apr 14 2012
* [[SGU Episode 351]], Apr 7 2012
* [[SGU Episode 350]], Mar 31 2012 {{tick}}
* [[SGU Episode 349]], Mar 24 2012 {{Open}}
* [[SGU Episode 348]], Mar 17 2012
* [[SGU Episode 347]], Mar 10 2012
* [[SGU Episode 346]], Mar 3 2012
* [[SGU Episode 339]], Jan 14 2012
* [[SGU Episode 338]], Jan 7 2012 {{tick}}

<big>'''2011'''</big>
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* [[SGU Episode 328]], Oct 29 2011
* [[SGU Episode 320]], Aug 29 2011
* [[SGU Episode 308]], Jun 08 2011 {{Open}}
|valign="top" style=white-space:nowrap|<big>'''2010'''</big>
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* [[SGU Episode 271]], Sep 22 2010
* [[SGU Episode 260]], Jun 30 2010 {{i}}
* [[SGU Episode 252]], May 12 2010

<big>'''2009'''</big>
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* [[SGU Episode 216]], Sep 4 2009
* [[SGU Episode 185]], Feb 4 2009 {{i}}
* [[SGU Episode 184]], Jan 28 2009

<big>'''2008'''</big>
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* [[SGU Episode 165]], Sep 17 2008
* [[SGU Episode 156]], Jul 16 2008 {{tick}}
* [[SGU Episode 146]], May 7 2008
* [[SGU Episode 144]], Apr 23 2008 {{tick}}
* [[SGU Episode 140]], Mar 26 2008 {{i}}

<big>'''2007'''</big>
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* [[SGU Episode 123]], Nov 28, 2007 {{Open}}
* [[SGU Episode 109]], Aug 24, 2007
* [[SGU Episode 105]], Jul 25, 2007 {{i}}
* [[SGU Episode 97]], May 30 2007 {{i}}
* [[SGU Episode 89]], Apr 4, 2007 {{i}}
* [[SGU Episode 79]], Jan 24, 2007

<big>'''2006'''</big>
----
* [[SGU Episode 62]], Sep 27 2006
* [[SGU Episode 47]], Jun 14 2006 {{i}}
* [[SGU Episode 46]], Jun 7 2006 {{i}}
* [[SGU Episode 31]], Feb 22 2006 {{Open}}

<big>'''2005'''</big>
----
* [[SGU Episode 6]], July 7 2005 {{i}}
* [[SGU Episode 5]], Jun 29 2005
* [[SGU Episode 4]], Jun 15 2005 {{i}}
* [[SGU Episode 3]], Jun 7 2005 {{i}}
* [[SGU Episode 2]], Jun 1 2005
* [[SGU Episode 1]], May 4 2005 {{tick}}
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