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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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== What's the Word <small>()</small> ==<br />
* Factoid<br />
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== News Items ==<br />
=== Cybersecurity and Neuromorphic Chips <small>()</small> ===<br />
* https://phys.org/news/2017-03-brain-inspired-cybersecurity-bad-apples-faster.html<br />
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=== Chiropractic Quackery <small>()</small> ===<br />
* https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/cracking-down-on-chiropractic-pseudoscience/<br />
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=== ASMR <small>()</small> ===<br />
* http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/researchers-begin-gently-probe-science-behind-asmr-180962550/<br />
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== Who's That Noisy <small>()</small> ==<br />
* Answer to last week: The Last Song of the Kauai O'o Bird<br />
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== Special Report <small>()</small> ==<br />
* Animals in the Bible<br />
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== Science or Fiction <small>()</small> ==<br />
[http://atasteofchallah.com/about-challah/the-mitzvah-of-challah/ Item #1]: Bakers are required to remove a piece of the dough prior to baking, the piece, called a challah, is then burned and wasted.<br />
[http://www.chabad.org/holidays/passover/pesach_cdo/aid/1689/jewish/Selling-Your-Chametz.htm Item #2]: A Passover Goy purchases all the bread products in the home of an orthodox Jew so that they do not own any bread in their house for Passover.<br />
Item #3: Women during their 'unclean' menstrual period must wash their clothes in a separate machine so as not to contaminate the clothes of others in the house.<br />
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== Skeptical Quote of the Week <small>()</small> ==<br />
<blockquote>"Science communication isn’t just talking. It's everything from tweeting about it, to painting it, to writing it, to coming up with a musical composition - the sky is the limit. Figure out what you're comfortable with and what taps into your unique expertise, and make that your niche." - Jennifer Gardy, Assistant Professor at UBC's School of Population and Public Health, a Canada Research Chair in Public Health Genomics, and a Senior Scientist at the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control. She is an occasional host of CBC's The Nature of Things, a science communicator, and a children's book author.</blockquote><br />
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