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The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe - Podcast 103 - 7/11/2007
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The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe is produced by SGU Productions, LLC - dedicated to promoting critical thinking, reason, and the public understanding of science through online and other media. The first episode of the SGU podcast went online on May 4th, 2005. It soon became a popular science/skeptical podcast, and remains one of the most popular science podcasts on iTunes.

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Podcast 103 - July 11, 2007

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Interview with Scott Lilienfield; News Items: Most Distant Galaxy, Orbo Perpetual Motion Machine, Salt Water Fuel; Your Questions and Emails: Scientology and Homocide; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle



Segment:   News Items     
Most Distant Galaxy Discovered     http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSL1089817820070710
Steorn Perpetual Motion Machine Fails     http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/default.asp?Display=132
Salt Water Fuel     http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/default.asp?Display=133
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kKtKSEQBeI
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55934

Segment:   Questions and E-mails     
Scientology and Homocide     FYI. You may have got this story in the States, but just in case it didn't reach you. Unfortunately these loonies exist in Australia too! Unbelievable.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/scientologists-flat-earthers/2007/07/10/1183833476294.html

Love the podcast.

Regards

Rachael
Australia/Sydney

Segment:   Interview     
Interview with Scott Lilienfield     Scott Lilienfield is a professor of psychology at Emory Univeristy and the Editor of The Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice: http://www.srmhp.org/

Lead Editor for: Science and Psuedoscience in Clinical Psychology
http://www.amazon.com/Science-Pseudoscience-Clinical-Psychology-Lilienfeld/dp/customer-reviews/1572308281

Segment:   Science or Fiction     [ Click Here to Show the Answers ]
Question #1     Boiled hair taken from the mane of a lion.
Question #2     Coffee made from coffee beans taken from the feces of a civet - a small cat-like mammal.
Question #3     Goat cheese deliberately infested with maggots

Segment:   Skeptical Puzzle     
Puzzle     This Week's Puzzle:

A dog in Romania
A vulture in Chile
A fox in China
A bear in Iceland
A boar in Greece
A buffalo in America

Identify the psuedoscientific pattern.

Last Week's puzzle:

In 1967, a famous building was attacked. The attackers attempted to use supernatural abilities to drive out its evil spirits, and to disfigure and displace the building with its occupants inside. The attack failed.

Name the building.

Answer: Pentagon
Winner: Fernanda

Segment:   Quote of the Week     
Quote     "There is not sufficient love and goodness in the world to permit us to give some of it away to imaginary beings."

-Nietzsche, a philosopher of some note.
 
 
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