SGU Episode 745

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SGU Episode 745
October 19th 2019
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SGU 744                      SGU 746
Skeptical Rogues
S: Steven Novella
Quote of the Week
Every time you remember something, your mind changes it just a little, until your best and your worst memories [become] your biggest illusions.
Josephus Miller, from The Expanse
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Introduction

Voiceover: You're listening to the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, your escape to reality.

What’s the Word? ()

• Leucism

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News Items

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New NASA Space Suits ()

• First female spacewalk is set, again. NASA says it sent the correct size spacesuit this time

Recycling Nuclear Fuel ()

• Recycling Nuclear Fuel

Galactic Eruption ()

• Something in The Centre of Our Galaxy Colossally Erupted 3.5 Million Years Ago

Search for Earhart’s Plane Abandoned ()

• The Man Who Found the Titanic Just Ended His Search for Amelia Earhart's Lost Plane

Who's That Noisy? ()

• Answer to last week’s Noisy: _brief_description_perhaps_with_link_

New Noisy ()

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Questions/Emails/Corrections/Follow-ups ()

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Science or Fiction ()

Answer	Item
Fiction	Artificial pancreas
Science	Neural circuit
Science	Stormquakes

Host	Result
Steve

Rogue	Guess

Voiceover: It's time for Science or Fiction.

Item #1: Biologists have successfully grown an artificial pancreas from stem cells and demonstrated function in a rat model.
Item #2: Scientists have found a neural circuit that makes food taste better with increased hunger.
Item #3: Researchers find that strong storms can generate “stormquakes” similar to earthquakes of magnitude > 3.5 M_(L?).

Skeptical Quote of the Week ()

Every time you remember something, your mind changes it just a little, until your best and your worst memories [become] your biggest illusions.
– Josephus Miller, from The Expanse (TV series), Season 1, Episode 6, "Rock Bottom"

Signoff/Announcements ()

S: —and until next week, this is your Skeptics' Guide to the Universe.

S: Skeptics' Guide to the Universe is produced by SGU Productions, dedicated to promoting science and critical thinking. For more information, visit us at theskepticsguide.org. Send your questions to info@theskepticsguide.org. And, if you would like to support the show and all the work that we do, go to patreon.com/SkepticsGuide and consider becoming a patron and becoming part of the SGU community. Our listeners and supporters are what make SGU possible.

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