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SGU Episode 961
December 9th 2023
961 Cerebyte.jpg

"In contrast to data usually stored on the best hard drives and the best SSDs of today, Cerabyte wants to use ceramic material, combined with glass, to hold mountains of data. For instance, it wants to build palm-sized cartridges that can store 10,000TB of data." [1]

SGU 960                      SGU 962

Skeptical Rogues
S: Steven Novella

B: Bob Novella

C: Cara Santa Maria

J: Jay Novella

Quote of the Week

People can be extremely intelligent, have taken a critical thinking course, and know logic inside and out. Yet they may just become clever debaters, not critical thinkers, because they are unwilling to look at their own biases.

Carole Wade, American cognitive psychologist


Links
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Show Notes
Forum Discussion

Introduction, Steve's coyote sighting, Rogues’ dogs

Voice-over: You're listening to the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, your escape to reality.

Quickie with Bob (12:19)


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News Items

S:

B:

C:

J:

E:

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Quantum Gravity (15:35)


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X-Prize for Health Span (28:41)


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ECT Heals the Brain (44:29)


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Building New Materials with AI and Robots (57:21)


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From Tik Tok: Electric Car Without Charging (1:08:36)


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Who's That Noisy? (1:18:23)

Answer to previous Noisy:
Eurasian bittern booming call
(The Eurasian bittern or great bittern is a wading bird in the bittern subfamily of the heron family Ardeidae.)

New Noisy (1:21:46)

[echo-y hissing, then whirring of a musical/mechanical nature]

what this week's Noisy is

Announcements (1:22:44)

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Science or Fiction (1:24:06)

Item #1: A new study finds that the average volume of speech, called “sonority” is highest in the tropics and lowest in the northwest coast of North America.[7]
Item #2: A new comparative study finds that human newborn brain size is relatively smaller at birth than our primate relatives, representing a relatively shorter gestation and delay in brain development.† [8]
Item #3: Researchers find that the electric organ discharge of an electric eel is capable of transferring DNA into zebrafish larvae.[9]

† The "What's the Word" segment in Episode 655 explores the word "altricial", which is found in the title for this article.

Answer Item
Fiction Human newborn brain size
Science Average volume of speech
Science
Electric eel DNA transfer
Host Result
Steve win
Rogue Guess
Cara
 Average volume of speech
Jay
 Human newborn brain size
Bob
 Human newborn brain size

Voice-over: It's time for Science or Fiction.

Cara's Response

Jay's Response

Bob's Response

Steve Explains Item #3

Steve Explains Item #1

Steve Explains Item #2

Skeptical Quote of the Week (1:40:15)


People can be extremely intelligent, have taken a critical thinking course, and know logic inside and out. Yet they may just become clever debaters, not critical thinkers, because they are unwilling to look at their own biases.

 – Carole Wade, American cognitive psychologist


Signoff/Announcements (1:41:59)

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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Today I Learned

  • Fact/Description, possibly with an article reference[10]
  • Fact/Description
  • Fact/Description

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Tech Radar: Video of ceramic storage system prototype surfaces online — 10,000TB cartridges bombarded with laser rays could become mainstream by 2030, making slow hard drives and tapes obsolete
  2. ↑ Neurologica: New Theory Unites Gravity and Quantum Mechanics
  3. ↑ Scientific American: XPRIZE on aging will award up to $101 million for therapies that restore vigor to the elderly
  4. ↑ The Conversation: How electroconvulsive therapy heals the brain − new insights into ECT, a stigmatized yet highly effective treatment for depression
  5. ↑ Nature: Google AI and robots join forces to build new materials
  6. ↑ Snopes: Did a Man from Zimbabwe Invent an Electric Car That Requires No Charging?
  7. ↑ Research in Germany: Languages are louder in the tropics
  8. ↑ Nature: The evolution of human altriciality and brain development in comparative context
  9. ↑ PeerJ: Electric organ discharge from electric eel facilitates DNA transformation into teleost larvae in laboratory conditions
  10. ↑ [url_for_TIL publication: title]
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