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SGU Episode 938
July 1st 2023
938 CHAPEA habitat.jpg

The CHAPEA mission will see the participants live and work in a 158m2

1,700ft2
habitat at the Johnson Space Center.[1]

SGU 937                      SGU 939

Skeptical Rogues
S: Steven Novella

C: Cara Santa Maria

J: Jay Novella

E: Evan Bernstein

Quote of the Week

I hold my theories on the tips of my fingers, so that the merest breath of fact will blow them away.

attributed to Michael Faraday, English scientist

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Show Notes
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Introduction

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

Titan submersible update

Media's misguided attention

Worsening geopolitical tragedies

What's the Word? (12:42)

News Items

S:

B:

C:

J:

E:

(laughs) (laughter) (applause) [inaudible]

Ripples in Spacetime (18:51)

Mars Simulation (28:23)

Multimillion Dollar Psychic Scam (42:04)

Who is Most Susceptible to Misinformation (52:16)

Malaria in Florida (1:00:26)

Who's That Noisy? (1:07:48)

Answer to previous Noisy:
A knife cutting down a vertical length of bamboo

New Noisy (1:11:54)

[_short_vague_description_of_Noisy]

short_text_from_transcript

Announcements (1:12:32)

Questions/Emails/Corrections/Follow-ups (1:15:55)

Email #1: Existential Dread

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Science or Fiction (1:22:55)

Theme: Computers

Item #1: The FBI reported that financial losses due to cybercrime in 2022 exceeded $1 trillion.[6]
Item #2: A 2020 analysis found that 77% of American jobs involved medium to high levels of digital skill.[7]
Item #3: A recent study estimates that even skilled computer users lose 11-20% of their work time dealing with computer issues.[8]

Answer Item
Fiction $1T cybercrime losses
Science Jobs involving digital skill
Science
Dealing w/ computer issues
Host Result
Steve win
Rogue Guess
Evan
 Jobs involving digital skill
Jay
 Jobs involving digital skill
Cara
 $1T cybercrime losses

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

Evan's Response

Jay's Response

Cara's Response

Steve Explains Item #3

Steve Explains Item #1

Steve Explains Item #2

Skeptical Quote of the Week (1:33:23)


I hold my theories on the tips of my fingers, so that the merest breath of fact will blow them away.

 – Michael Faraday (1791-1867), English scientist who contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry


Signoff

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[9]
  • Fact/Description
  • Fact/Description

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Independent: Nasa locks four people inside fake Mars habitat for year-long study
  2. ↑ Neurologica: Ripples in Spacetime
  3. ↑ U.S. DOJ: Canadian Man Convicted in Multimillion-Dollar Psychic Mass-Mailing Fraud Scheme
  4. ↑ University of Cambridge: First misinformation susceptibility test finds 'very online' Gen Z and millennials are most vulnerable to fake news
  5. ↑ Yahoo News: Malaria alert issued in Florida. Why infectious mosquitoes have led to statewide concern
  6. ↑ No reference given
  7. ↑ Bloomberg: As Jobs Go Digital, Who Gets Left Behind?
  8. ↑ ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction: Frustration: Still a Common User Experience
  9. ↑ [url_for_TIL publication: title]

Vocabulary

  1. ↑ Wiktionary: decussate
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