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	== Quickie with Bob <small>(10:29)</small>==		== Quickie with Bob: New type of variable star <small>(10:29)</small>==
	* ESO: [http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1326/ New Kind of Variable Star Discovered]		* ESO: [http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1326/ New Kind of Variable Star Discovered]

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	B: is a velocity that, if they reached 100%, they would actually start throwing off mass. So they're spinning very very fast and this spinning may have an effect on the dynamics of their interiors, which then would result in the variability of the light output. So, keep an eye on it. I'm curious to see what they're gonna call it and, you know, what more they can determine about these types of stars based on these studies, these very detailed studies that they're doing. So, all I got guys! This has been your Quickie with Bob, I hope it was good for you, too.		B: is a velocity that, if they reached 100%, they would actually start throwing off mass. So they're spinning very very fast and this spinning may have an effect on the dynamics of their interiors, which then would result in the variability of the light output. So, keep an eye on it. I'm curious to see what they're gonna call it and, you know, what more they can determine about these types of stars based on these studies, these very detailed studies that they're doing. So, all I got guys! This has been your Quickie with Bob, I hope it was good for you, too.

	== News items continued == ~~Continue links from here~~		== News items continued ==
	=== Patenting DNA <small>(13:10)</small>===		=== Patenting DNA <small>(13:10)</small>===
	* BBC News: [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22895161 US Supreme Court says human DNA cannot be patented]		* BBC News: [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22895161 US Supreme Court says human DNA cannot be patented]

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	S: About 110 million years ago. Yeah so, Pangaea broke up into {{w\|Gondwana}} and {{w\|Laurasia}}. And then Gondwana, which is the southern of those two continents so Australia broke off from there with Antarctica which then broke off from Australia; I think that's the order in which it happened. So for about 100 million years or so Australia has been its own continent. Pretty much isolated from everything else. So there's no possible way that an ancestor of kangaroos could be in Europe 25 million years ago, the timing doesn't work out. So I just totally made that up.		S: About 110 million years ago. Yeah so, Pangaea broke up into {{w\|Gondwana}} and {{w\|Laurasia}}. And then Gondwana, which is the southern of those two continents so Australia broke off from there with Antarctica which then broke off from Australia; I think that's the order in which it happened. So for about 100 million years or so Australia has been its own continent. Pretty much isolated from everything else. So there's no possible way that an ancestor of kangaroos could be in Europe 25 million years ago, the timing doesn't work out. So I just totally made that up.

	This was the main split between mammals, marsupials and {{\|Placentalia\|placentals}}. The marsupials were isolated to South America and Australia and the placentals everywhere else and then when the land bridge opened up between Panama land-bridge, between South America and North America, that's when those mammal populations mixed while Australia remained isolated. Which is why the only native mammals in Australia are all marsupials. The few placentals were introduced at some point. I remember when we were touring in Australia, you guys remember this, and our tour guide said that {{\|Megabat\|fruit bats}} are the most closely related animals to humans.		This was the main split between mammals, marsupials and {{w\|Placentalia\|placentals}}. The marsupials were isolated to South America and Australia and the placentals everywhere else and then when the land bridge opened up between Panama land-bridge, between South America and North America, that's when those mammal populations mixed while Australia remained isolated. Which is why the only native mammals in Australia are all marsupials. The few placentals were introduced at some point. I remember when we were touring in Australia, you guys remember this, and our tour guide said that {{w\|Megabat\|fruit bats}} are the most closely related animals to humans.

	B: Yes, I'll never forget that		B: Yes, I'll never forget that

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	E: ... and head and stuff. But -		E: ... and head and stuff. But -

	B: Plus only mice are from other dimensions, Rebecca.<ref>{{w\|List_of_races_and_species_in_The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy#Mice\|Mice – Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy}</ref>		B: Plus only mice are from other dimensions, Rebecca.<ref>{{w\|List_of_races_and_species_in_The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy#Mice\|Mice – Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy}}</ref>

	E: But how did he go about backing up his claim, alright? Well he does what any true believer does and he posts pictures of the ET on the Internet. And in three days these pictures happen to go viral! So after five days of having posted the pictures, the local police show up at his door and he's taken in for questioning. Now during the questioning, Mr. Li admitted, willingly or otherwise, that the whole thing was a hoax.		E: But how did he go about backing up his claim, alright? Well he does what any true believer does and he posts pictures of the ET on the Internet. And in three days these pictures happen to go viral! So after five days of having posted the pictures, the local police show up at his door and he's taken in for questioning. Now during the questioning, Mr. Li admitted, willingly or otherwise, that the whole thing was a hoax.
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			== Today I Learned... ==
			*Star Trek fans have created "new" episodes of the original Star Trek series in a project they call {{w\|Star Trek Continues}}

			*The eruption of the {{w\|Laki\|Laki volcano}} caused death in numerous places around the world.

			*Scientists have discovered a material that gets [http://www.anl.gov/articles/discovery-new-material-state-counterintuitive-laws-physics larger under pressure].

	== References ==		== References ==
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	~~Today I learned:~~
	~~Star Trek fans have created "new" episodes of the original Star Trek series in a project they call {{w\|Star Trek Continues}}~~

	~~The eruption of the {{w\|Laki\|Laki volcano}} caused death in numerous places around the world.~~

	~~Scientists have discovered a material that gets [http://www.anl.gov/articles/discovery-new-material-state-counterintuitive-laws-physics larger under pressure].~~

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	R: The joke fails, though, on the fact that fortune cookies aren't Chinese.<ref>{{w\|Fortune_cookie#Chinese_legend\|Fortune cookies not Chinese}}		R: The joke fails, though, on the fact that fortune cookies aren't Chinese.<ref>{{w\|Fortune_cookie#Chinese_legend\|Fortune cookies not Chinese}}</ref>

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	S: Each week, I come up with three science news items or facts, two genuine and one fictitious. Then I challenge my panel of skeptics to tell me which one is the fake. Just have three regular, old news items this week, no theme.		S: Each week, I come up with three science news items or facts, two genuine and one fictitious. Then I challenge my panel of skeptics to tell me which one is the fake. Just have three regular, old news items this week, no theme.

	Here we go: Item number 1: New fossil evidence reveals the presence of Kangaroo ~~anscestors~~ 25 million years ago in what is now Europe. Item number 2: Researchers find that male {{w\|Guppy\|guppies}} can reproduce up to ten months after they have died. And item number 3: Scientists have discovered a material that gets larger under pressure in apparent defiance of the laws of physics. Bob, why don't you go first.		Here we go: Item number 1: New fossil evidence reveals the presence of Kangaroo ancestors 25 million years ago in what is now Europe. Item number 2: Researchers find that male {{w\|Guppy\|guppies}} can reproduce up to ten months after they have died. And item number 3: Scientists have discovered a material that gets larger under pressure in apparent defiance of the laws of physics. Bob, why don't you go first.

	B: So material that gets larger under pressure. So instead of getting of getting more dense, closer together, it's doing the opposite. Wow, that's messed up. Rearranges the bonds, I don't know. That's pretty bizarre, I'm trying to figure out how that would work. Let me go to two. Male guppies can reproduce up to ten months after they have died. So are we talking about zombie guppies with good game, is that it? Wow, so that's kind of bizarre. So if their sperm can last a really long time and be used after the death of the rest of the body. The kangaroo ancestor, 25 million years in what is now Europe. There's something about that. Australia was isolated for millions of years. I don't think you need to... that one is rubbing me the wrong way; even more than those other ones. I'm gonna say the kangaroos are fiction!		B: So material that gets larger under pressure. So instead of getting of getting more dense, closer together, it's doing the opposite. Wow, that's messed up. Rearranges the bonds, I don't know. That's pretty bizarre, I'm trying to figure out how that would work. Let me go to two. Male guppies can reproduce up to ten months after they have died. So are we talking about zombie guppies with good game, is that it? Wow, so that's kind of bizarre. So if their sperm can last a really long time and be used after the death of the rest of the body. The kangaroo ancestor, 25 million years in what is now Europe. There's something about that. Australia was isolated for millions of years. I don't think you need to... that one is rubbing me the wrong way; even more than those other ones. I'm gonna say the kangaroos are fiction!

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-B: So material that gets larger under pressure. So instead of getting of getting more dense, closer together, it's doing the opposite. Wow, that's messed up. Rearranges for the bonds, I don't know. Um that's pretty bizzare, I'm trying to figure out how that would work. Let me go to two. Male guppies can reproduce up to ten months after they have died. So are we talking about zombie guppies with good game, is that it? Wow, so that's kind of bizarre. So if their...so I mean yeah, if their, perhaps their...their sperm can last a really long time and um be used after the death of the rest of the body. The kangaroo ance says 25 million years in what is now Europe. There's somehthing about that. Austrailia was isolated for millions of years. I don't think you need to... that one is rubbing me the wrong way; even more than those other ones. Uh, I'm gonna say the kangaroos are fiction!
+B: So material that gets larger under pressure. So instead of getting of getting more dense, closer together, it's doing the opposite. Wow, that's messed up. Rearranges for the bonds, I don't know. Um that's pretty bizarre, I'm trying to figure out how that would work. Let me go to two. Male guppies can reproduce up to ten months after they have died. So are we talking about zombie guppies with good game, is that it? Wow, so that's kind of bizarre. So if their...so I mean yeah, if their, perhaps their...their sperm can last a really long time and um be used after the death of the rest of the body. The kangaroo ance says 25 million years in what is now Europe. There's something about that. Australia was isolated for millions of years. I don't think you need to... that one is rubbing me the wrong way; even more than those other ones. Uh, I'm gonna say the kangaroos are fiction!
 S: Ok, Rebecca
-R:That's where I was leaning to; because, I mean if that's true, that just completely rewrites the history of not just kangaroos but all marsupials. Right? I feel like that would be big big news. The presence of kangaroo ancestors... That could mean anything really though; something really far back. But, I mean, kangaroos and other marsupials, evolved after Austrailia broke off right? I think? So, that seams really suspect to me. Um, male guppies reproduced after they died. It's not, it doesn't surprise me they could reproduce after they die; I can picture their sperm being somehow longlived.
+R:That's where I was leaning to; because, I mean if that's true, that just completely rewrites the history of not just kangaroos but all marsupials. Right? I feel like that would be big big news. The presence of kangaroo ancestors... That could mean anything really though; something really far back. But, I mean, kangaroos and other marsupials, evolved after Australia broke off right? I think? So, that seams really suspect to me. Um, male guppies reproduced after they died. It's not, it doesn't surprise me they could reproduce after they die; I can picture their sperm being somehow long-lived.and being able to swim out and fertilize eggs. But ten months! I didn't know that guppies could live for ten months, let alone their sperm.  So the length of time there is what's really crazy; but I can buy it. The thing that gets larger under pressure, for some reason I can completely believe that. I don't know why. Like in my head I'm picturing non neutronium, liquids and other things that react weirdly in non-intuitive ways when you interact with them. So that one I buy. So for me it's between the guppies and the kangaroos. And I'm gonna have to GWB on this one. The kangaroo thing is just way too bizarro for me so I'm gonna say that one's the fiction.
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