SGU Episode 311
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| SGU Episode 311 |
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| June 29th 2011 |
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| Skeptical Rogues |
| S: Steven Novella |
B: Bob Novella |
R: Rebecca Watson |
J: Jay Novella |
E: Evan Bernstein |
| Quote of the Week |
'If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another, and science will do for them all they wish and more than they can dream.' |
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Introduction
You're listening to the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, your escape to reality.
This Day in Skepticism ()
- July 2 1843: Samuel Christian Friedrich Hahnemann - a German physician, founder of the system of therapeutics known as homeopathy - died.
News Items ()
Tau Day ()
Body Temperature of Dinosaurs Measured ()
Magnets and Blood Flow ()
Guru in Sweat Lodge Deaths Convicted ()
Close Call for Space Station ()
Who's That Noisy ()
- Answer to last week: Brian May
Interview with Eugenie Scott ()
- Director of the National Center for Science Education
Science or Fiction ()
Item #1: A recent extensive DNA analysis of coconuts indicates that all modern cultivated coconuts derive from a single ancestral variety located in Indonesia. Item #2: Paleontologists have discovered fossilized eyes 515 million years old - they are surprisingly complex compound eyes with about 3,000 lenses. Item #3: A new study finds that wars have been increasing steadily over the last century by 2% per year on average.
Skeptical Quote of the Week ()
'If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another, and science will do for them all they wish and more than they can dream.' - Winston Churchill
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