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)

S: So Jay, do you have a quote this week?

J: I have a quote sent in by a listener named Ulrich Fisher from Surrey, B.C. Canada.

E: From the Northern Realms.

J: The quote is:

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

J: Who was that written by, Steve?

S: I believe that's a quote from T. H. Huxley, my fave...

J: Thomas Henry Huxley!

(laughter)

E: That's what the T. H. stands for.

S: My favourite philosopher. Darwin's bulldog.

B: Yeah.

J: T. H. Huxley is going to be at TAM this year.

S: (laughing) I wish. All right, well thanks Jay, that's a good one this week, and thank you guys for joining me this week.

B: Yeah, it's a good episode.

J: Thanks, Steve.

R: Thank you, Steve.

E: Hey, it's good to be back at the computer.

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