SGU Episode 356

I'm going to work on this one backwards, as usual, in the hope that someone else will work on it from the start. -- Rwh86 (talk) 17:51, 12 May 2012 (UTC)

Introduction

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

This Day in Skepticism (0:28)

May 12, 1910 Today is the birthday of Dorothy Hodgkin

News Items

Dinosaur Farts (3:05)

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/05/07/study-dinosaurs-may-have-caused-extinction-with-flatulence/

Aura Reading (9:46)

http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/is-aura-reading-synaesthesia-probably-not/

48 Frames per Second (22:13)

http://phys.org/news/2012-05-high-cinema-booed.html

Baby Powder (36:00)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/southkorea/9250438/Pills-filled-with-powdered-human-baby-flesh-found-by-customs-officials.html

Killing Bigfoot (45:12)

http://io9.com/5907846/its-officially-legal-to-kill-bigfoot-in-texas

SGU Dinner at TAM 2012 (52:36)

http://www.amazingmeeting.com/TAM2012/program

Who's That Noisy? (55:11)

Answer to last week: Steve Spangler

Science or Fiction (61:54)

Item number one. Astronomers have demonstrated the ability to detect the composition of expolanet atmospheres by viewing massive lightening discharges. Item number two. Astronomers find that solar systems with so-called hot Jupiters do not have any other detectable planets in their system. And item number three. Astronomers plan to view the upcoming transit of Venus across the sun with the Hubble telescope by using the moon as a giant mirror.

Skeptical Quote of the Week (76:21)

Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

J: Thomas Henry Huxley!