SGU Episode 473

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SGU Episode 473
August 2nd 2014
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SGU 472                      SGU 474
Skeptical Rogues
S: Steven Novella
B: Bob Novella
R: Rebecca Watson
J: Jay Novella
E: Evan Bernstein
Quote of the Week
I hope that every [person] at one point in their life has the opportunity to have something that is at the heart of their being, something so central to their being that if they lose it they won’t feel they’re human anymore, to be proved wrong because that’s the liberation that science provides. The realization that to assume the truth, to assume the answer before you ask the questions leads you nowhere.
Lawrence M. Krauss
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Introduction

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

This Day in Skepticism ()

• August 2, 1880: Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) was adopted officially by Parliament.

News Items

Mike Adams Follow Up ()

• http://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/2014/07/28/fbi-turns-up-heat-on-mike-adams-as-health-ranger-fiasco-widens-plus-adams-archive/

Battery Advance ()

• http://www.theskepticsguide.org/scientists-approach-holy-grail-of-battery-technology-but-is-it-more-of-a-holey-grail

Ray Comfort's Gravity Gaffe ()

• http://www.theskepticsguide.org/ray-comforts-gravity-gaffe

Dinosaur Feathers ()

• http://www.theskepticsguide.org/most-dinosaurs-may-have-had-feathers

Dinosaur Extinction ()

• http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/dinosaur-extinction-revisited/

Who's That Noisy

• Answer to last week: Dot Matrix Printer

Interview With Bill Nye ()

• http://billnye.com/

Science or Fiction ()

Item #1: A recently published analysis indicates that, if we continue our current mix of electricity generation, 20-40% of the world will have serious water shortage by 2020, and there will be a global water shortage by 2040. Item #2: Physicists have successfully separated the properties of a particle from the particle itself, so the particle was in one location while its magnetic moment was in another. Item #3: Researchers have successfully created Cooper pairs, the hallmark of superconductivity, in an indium alloy at near room temperature.

Skeptical Quote of the Week ()

“I hope that every [person] at one point in their life has the opportunity to have something that is at the heart of their being, something so central to their being that if they lose it they won’t feel they’re human anymore, to be proved wrong because that’s the liberation that science provides. The realization that to assume the truth, to assume the answer before you ask the questions leads you nowhere.”-Lawrence M. Krauss

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