SGU Episode 663

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SGU Episode 663
March 24th 2018
"A GMU student set up this sign and was actively inviting students into the university's "free speech zone" as a way to raise awareness and discussion over free speech rights on campus. He was doing it as a class project for an Art as Social Action course." Source: Flickr, 2005
SGU 662                      SGU 664
Skeptical Rogues
S: Steven Novella
C: Cara Santa Maria
J: Jay Novella
E: Evan Bernstein
Quote of the Week
It gets on my nerves when people say science doesn't know everything. Science knows it doesn't know everything, otherwise it would stop. Just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean you can fill in the gaps with whatever fairy-tale appeals to you.
Dara Ó Briain, Irish comedian
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Introduction, Nor’easters, forest visits, "Puma 22"

Voice-over: You're listening to the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, your escape to reality.

( links for Cara's mentions: P-22's decade in Griffith Park NPS Puma Profiles: P-022 )

What's the Word? (6:51)

• Vagility

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News Items

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Who's That Noisy? (53:15)

Answer to previous Noisy:

High speed Morse telegraphy in binary that translates, in ASCII, to SGU

New Noisy (57:31)

[_short_vague_description_of_Noisy]

... what that is

Questions/Emails/Corrections/Follow-ups ()

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Science or Fiction ()

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Voice-over: It's time for Science or Fiction.

Skeptical Quote of the Week ()

It gets on my nerves when people say science doesn't know everything. Science knows it doesn't know everything, otherwise it would stop. Just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean you can fill in the gaps with whatever fairy-tale appeals to you.  – Dara Ó Briain, Irish comedian

Signoff/Announcements ()

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

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