SGU Episode 311

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SGU Episode 311
June 29th 2011
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SGU 310                      SGU 312
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.'
Winston Churchill
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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 ()

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13906169

Body Temperature of Dinosaurs Measured ()

• http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110628132557.htm

Magnets and Blood Flow ()

• http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/magnets-and-blood-flow/

Guru in Sweat Lodge Deaths Convicted ()

• http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/23/us/23sweat.html?_r=2

Close Call for Space Station ()

• http://gawker.com/5816596/space-station-nearly-obliterated-no-big-deal

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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