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== Science or Fiction <small>()</small> ==
== Science or Fiction <small>(1.05.20)</small> ==
Question #1    Boiled hair taken from the mane of a lion.
Question #1    Boiled hair taken from the mane of a lion.


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== Skeptical Puzzle <small>(11.46)</small> ==


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In 1967, a famous building was attacked. The attackers attempted to use supernatural abilities to drive out its evil spirits, and to disfigure and displace the building with its occupants inside. The attack failed.


Name the building.
== Skeptical Quote of the Week <small>(1.14.00)</small> ==
 
Answer: Pentagon
<br>Winner: Fernanda
 
== Skeptical Quote of the Week <small>()</small> ==
<blockquote>"There is not sufficient love and goodness in the world to permit us to give some of it away to imaginary beings." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nietzsche Friedrich Nietzsche]
<blockquote>"There is not sufficient love and goodness in the world to permit us to give some of it away to imaginary beings." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nietzsche Friedrich Nietzsche]
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SGU Episode 103
11th July 2007
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SGU 102                      SGU 104

Skeptical Rogues
S: Steven Novella

B: Bob Novella

R: Rebecca Watson

J: Jay Novella

E: Evan Bernstein

Guest

SL: Scott Lilienfield

Quote of the Week

There is not sufficient love and goodness in the world to permit us to give some of it away to imaginary beings

Nietzsche

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Introduction

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

This Day in Skepticism ()

News Items

Item 1 (1.47)

Item 2 (4.50)

Item 3 (17.30)

Questions and Emails (28.47)

Interview with "Scott Lilienfield" (34.33)

Science or Fiction (1.05.20)

Question #1 Boiled hair taken from the mane of a lion.

Question #2 Coffee made from coffee beans taken from the feces of a civet - a small cat-like mammal.

Question #3 Goat cheese deliberately infested with maggots


Skeptical Puzzle (11.46)

This Week's Puzzle:

A dog in Romania
A vulture in Chile
A fox in China
A bear in Iceland
A boar in Greece
A buffalo in America

Identify the psuedoscientific pattern.

Last Week's puzzle:


Skeptical Quote of the Week (1.14.00)

"There is not sufficient love and goodness in the world to permit us to give some of it away to imaginary beings." Friedrich Nietzsche


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