SGU Episode 370

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Introduction

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

This Day in Skepticism (0:27)

August 18, 1986 - Seventy-two Nobel Prize-winning scientists filed a legal brief with the U.S. Supreme Court challenging as unconstitutional a Louisiana law requiring schools that teach evolution to also teach “creation-science.”

News Items

Eggs and Atherosclerosis (2:58)

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/eggs-and-atherosclerosis/

Hacking the Rover (17:52)

http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/269564/scitech/technology/anonymous-hackers-may-be-targeting-mars-rover-says-security-firm

The Sneeze (26:16)

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/08/120814-why-do-we-sneeze-health-science-sinusitis/

Google Pyramids (33:56)

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/08/14/long-lost-egyptian-pyramids-found-on-google-earth/

Occ Update (40:52)

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sgu/occ-the-skeptical-caveman-a-new-webseries

Who's That Noisy? (44:24)

Answer to last week: Alan Shepard

Questions and Emails (46:41)

Screwed ()

Critical Thinking and the Asymmetrical Apple Screw I thought this was kind of interesting... http://day4.se/how-we-screwed-almost-the-whole-apple-community/

Truckee Lynch, San Francisco

Science or Fiction (52:12)

Item number one. An instrument aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has detected helium in the Moon's atmosphere. Item number two. A recent lost letter study, in which stamped and addressed letters are dropped on the street and their fate recorded, demonstrates that wealthier neighborhoods are less altruistic. And item number three. Researchers have discovered the code by which the retina communicates to the brain, leading to a retinal prosthesis that has restored near normal vision to a blind mouse.

Skeptical Quote of the Week (1:08:07)

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information, or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise.

Benjamin Franklin

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