SGU Episode 364

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Introduction

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

This Day in Skepticism (0:29)

• 1712 - Newcomen Steam Engine

News Items

Water on The Moon and Mars (5:51)

• http://www.space.com/16222-moon-water-ice-shackleton-crater.html http://phys.org/news/2012-06-extensive-mars-interior.html

Swiss Report on Homeopathy (13:59)

• http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/

Twisted Light (25:56)

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18551284

Embodied Cognition (32:17)

• http://io9.com/5921682/what-finger+counting-says-about-you-and-your-brain

Who's That Noisy? (41:23)

Answer to last week: gamma ray burst

News Update - Causeway Cannibal (44:17)

• http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/causeway-killer-mystery/

Interview with Jann Bellamy (46:45)

• Campaign for Science-Based Healthcare
• jbellamy@sciencebasedhealthcare.org
• http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-19350-wireless_waste.html

Science or Fiction (1:01:12)

Item number one. An international team of scientists have discovered that super-sized space tornadoes may explain why the sun's atmosphere is much hotter than its surface. Item number two. Astronomers have detected what they believe to be the first trinary planetary system - three exoplanets sharing the same orbit. And item number three. Astronomers have developed a new method for both accurately weighing exoplanets and detecting the composition of their atmosphere, even those that are non-transiting.

Skeptical Quote of the Week (1:16:48)

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

J: Prof. Stephen Hawking!

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