SGU Episode 583
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| SGU Episode 583 |
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| September 10th 2016 |
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| Skeptical Rogues |
| S: Steven Novella |
B: Bob Novella |
C: Cara Santa Maria |
J: Jay Novella |
E: Evan Bernstein |
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BB: Brian Brushwood |
| Quote of the Week |
Good grief. If we can’t laugh at ourselves, and at one another, in good spirit and without malice, then what fun can there be? If we must withhold all ribbing in the name of protecting everyone’s feelings, then we truly are a toothless society. |
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Introduction
You're listening to the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, your escape to reality.
News Items
Lightning Reindeer Death ()
Space Train ()
Juno at Jupiter ()
Evolving Tasmanian Devils ()
Finding Galactic Missing Matter ()
What's the Word ()
- Thanatosis
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Science or Fiction ()
- Item #1: Researchers find that 30% of college students flush their unused prescription medication down the drain. http://www.uvm.edu/giee/?Page=news&storyID=23308&category=gundhome
- Item #2: A new study finds that simply wearing glasses reduced facial recognition by people to a statistically significant degree. http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/31/health/superman-glasses-disguise-facial-recognition/
- Item #3: For the first time engineers have created carbon nanotube transistors that outperform state-of-the-art silicon transistors. http://phys.org/news/2016-09-carbon-nanotube-transistors-outperform-silicon.html
Skeptical Quote of the Week ()
Good grief. If we can’t laugh at ourselves, and at one another, in good spirit and without malice, then what fun can there be? If we must withhold all ribbing in the name of protecting everyone’s feelings, then we truly are a toothless society.
- George Takei
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