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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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== Movie Review <small>()</small> ==<br />
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2316204/ Alien Covenant]<br />
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== News Items ==<br />
=== Dinosaur Proteins Questioned <small>()</small> ===<br />
* http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/284/1855/20170544<br />
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=== Another Gravitational Wave <small>()</small> ===<br />
* https://futurism.com/ligo-detected-the-oldest-gravitational-waves-ever-discovered/<br />
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=== Bigelow on Aliens <small>()</small> ===<br />
* http://www.livescience.com/59331-aliens-have-visited-earth-robert-bigelow-says.html<br />
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=== Don’t Put Wasps Nests in your Vagina <small>()</small> ===<br />
* http://nypost.com/2017/06/01/doctors-warns-women-against-putting-wasp-nests-in-their-vaginas/<br />
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== Who's That Noisy <small>()</small> ==<br />
* Answer to last week: Piano strings<br />
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== Science or Fiction <small>()</small> ==<br />
[https://u.osu.edu/bhanr/2016/08/22/what-there-are-three-different-types-of-photosynthesis/ Item #1]: Plants use three different types of photosynthesis: C3, C4, and CAM (crassulacean acid metabolism), but almost all trees use the less efficient C3 cycle.<br />
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_%28tree%29 Item #2]: A 206 acre stand of aspen trees in Utah is actually a single organism weighing 6 million kilograms and estimated to be 80,000 years old.<br />
[http://globaltrees.org/threatened-trees/trees/socotra-dragon-tree/ Item #3]: The Dragon’s Blood tree has deep red sap that has been used for centuries as a medicinal and a varnish, and contains a powerful hallucinogen similar in chemistry and effect to LSD.<br />
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== Skeptical Quote of the Week <small>()</small> ==<br />
<blockquote>"Innumeracy and pseudoscience are often associated, in part because of the ease with which mathematical certainty can be invoked, to bludgeon the innumerate into a dumb acquiescence." - John Allen Paulos</blockquote><br />
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