SGU Episode 749

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SGU Episode 749
November 16th 2019
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SGU 748                      SGU 750
Skeptical Rogues
S: Steven Novella
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Introduction

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

News Items

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AI Will to Survive ()

• [link_URL publication: title]

First Cyborg ()

• [link_URL publication: title]

Confessions of an Astrologer ()

• [link_URL publication: title]

National Parks and Mental Health ()

• [link_URL publication: title]

Meat from Air ()

• [link_URL publication: title]

Who's That Noisy? ()

• Answer to last week’s Noisy: _brief_description_perhaps_with_link_

New Noisy ()

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Questions/Emails/Corrections/Follow-ups ()

considering using block quotes for emails read aloud in this segment, with reduced spacing for long chunks

Science or Fiction ()

Voiceover: It's time for Science or Fiction.

Theme: Carl Sagan
Item #1: Elon Musk donated an undisclosed amount of money, but known to be north of 10 million dollars, to create the Carl Sagan Collection at the Library of Congress.
Item #2: He was passed over for promotion at Harvard, because his work was considered to be too wordy and useless. So he settled for a job at Cornell instead.
Item #3: Sagan dictated all of his writing, including all of his books, to cassette for someone else to transcribe.

_Host_ Explains Item #_n_

Answer	Item
Fiction	Musk donation
Science	{{{science1}}}

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Rogue	Guess

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Signoff/Announcements ()

S: —and until next week, this is your Skeptics' Guide to the Universe.

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Today I Learned

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