SGU Episode 376

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Introduction

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

This Day in Skepticism ()

• September 29, 1954: CERN is created

News Items

Ig Nobels 2012 ()

• Improbable Research

GM Corn Rat Study ()

• The GM Corn Rat Study

HIV and Faith Healing ()

• Faith Leaders Across England in 'HIV Healing' Claims

Emoticon Turns 30 ()

• The Emoticon is 30 Years Old ;-)

CSICon Private Recording ()

• Ticket to SGU Recording at CSICon

Who's That Noisy ()

• Answer to last week: Warp core from Enterprise TNG

Science or Fiction ()

Item #1: Astronomers may have solved the "missing baryon problem" with the discovery of a halo of hot gas surrounding the Milky Way galaxy. Item #2: This year's peak Arctic ice melt is the greatest since records have been kept, and likely the greatest in a million years. Item #3: Physicists have built a 4-dimensional "space-time crystal" that can be used to keep perfect time until the end of the universe.

Skeptical Quote of the Week ()

An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. 'Can they be brought together?' This is a practical question. We must get down to it. 'I despise intelligence' really means: 'I cannot bear my doubts.'

Albert Camus

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