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== Introduction ==<br />
''You're listening to the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, your escape to reality.''<br />
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== Forgotten Superheroes of Science <small>()</small> ==<br />
* Alice Hamilton: Was a pathologist who was instrumental in causing sweeping changes in the safety of people exposed to dangerous industrial metals and chemical compounds in the workplace.<br />
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== News Items ==<br />
=== Red Meat and Cancer <small>()</small> ===<br />
* http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/who-report-on-red-and-processed-meat/<br />
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=== Mega Poop <small>()</small> ===<br />
* http://news.sciencemag.org/plants-animals/2015/10/when-whales-disappear-so-does-their-ecosystem-sustaining-poop?rss=1<br />
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=== Tractor Beam <small>()</small> ===<br />
* http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/star-wars-star-trek-sonic-tractor-beam-invented-by-scientists-a6710836.html<br />
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=== Whole Body Cryotherapy <small>()</small> ===<br />
* https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/whole-body-cryotherapy/<br />
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== Who's That Noisy <small>()</small> ==<br />
* Answer to last week: 3D Printer<br />
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== What's the Word <small>()</small> ==<br />
* Canonical<br />
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== Questions and Emails <small>()</small> ==<br />
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== Interview with Dr. Dean Edell <small>()</small> ==<br />
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22PJnZFUCns<br />
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== Science or Fiction <small>()</small> ==<br />
[http://phys.org/news/2015-10-early-humans-linked-ancient-australian.html Item #1]: New evidence supports the theory that climatic change, specifically progressive desertification, was largely responsible for the extinction of Australian megafauna about 30 thousand years ago.<br />
[http://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/can-we-unconsciously-hear-distance/ Item #2]: New research finds that humans can subconsciously hear a sound delay as brief as 40ms and use that delay to judge the distance of objects.<br />
[http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2015/10/electric-eel-most-remarkable-predator-in-animal-kingdom/ Item #3]: Researchers find that the electric eel uses short runs of electrical pulses to cause the muscles of fish prey to contract, thereby giving away their location.<br />
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== Skeptical Quote of the Week <small>()</small> ==<br />
<blockquote>"Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its memory for vivid anecdotes rather than systematic statistics." - Steven Pinker</blockquote><br />
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