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The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe - Podcast 138 - 3/12/2008
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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
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March 12, 2008
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Interview with Ola Fincke about Science Education in Oklahoma; News Items: Ghosts in the Mind, US Government Settles Autism-Vaccine Case, Real Death Star, Drugs in the Water, The Skeptologists; Randi Speaks-about Gary Schwartz; Science or Fiction
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Segment: News Items
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Segment: Interview
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Interview with Ola Fincke
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Ola Fincke is a member of the Oklahomans for Excellence in Science Education
http://www.biosurvey.ou.edu/oese/
Professor and evolutionary ecologist in the Department of Zoology at the University of Oklahoma. She received an M.A. in science education from Tufts University, and taught high school science in the US and Europe before getting her Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Iowa. She was a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, and a NATO Fellow at Oxford University. Her research focuses on the evolution of reproductive behavior, sexual conflict and speciation, and consequences of tropical forest fragmentation on insect populations. At OU, she teaches evolution, behavioral ecology, and evolutionary ecology.
endogenousretrovirus.blogspot.com/2008/03/special-rights-for-religious-radicals.html
findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2843/is_4_27/ai_104733223
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Segment: Randi Speaks
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James Randi
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The Uncompromising Observations of a Veteran Skeptic
James Randi returns to give his skeptical commentary in his own unique style.
This week's topic: Gary Schwartz
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Segment: Science or Fiction [ Click Here to Show the Answers ]
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Question #1  Science
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Astronomers have discovered grains of sand around distant stars.
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Question #2 Science
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Scientists have discovered that within the Earth's inner core is yet another layer, or an inner inner core.
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Question #3  Fiction
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Contrary to the theory of island dwarfism, paleontologists have uncovered on the island of Micronesia fossils of prehistoric humans averaging over 6 feet tall.
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Segment: Quote of the Week
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Quote
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"When a man finds a conclusion agreeable, he accepts it without argument, but when he finds it disagreeable, he will bring against it all the forces of logic and reason."
-Thucydides
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