The NESS Podcast Blogs Video Forums SGU Fans Affiliates
 
 

The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe - Podcast 140 - 3/26/2008
<<< Back to Podcast Archive

The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe is a weekly Podcast talkshow discussing the latest news and topics from the world of the paranormal, fringe science, and controversial claims from a scientific point of view. -The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: Your escape to reality -Produced by the New England Skeptical Society in association with the James Randi Educational Foundation(JREF) : http://www.theness.com

Podcast 140 - March 26, 2008

  Download Podcast
   Print Show Notes
Interview with Eugenie Scott; News Items: Rebecca's Asteroid, Airborne Lawsuit, Pregnant Man, Hypnotist Robber; Your Questions and E-mails: Robin Migration, More on Soap; Science or Fiction



Segment:   News Items     
Asteroid Rebecca     http://www.theskepticsguide.org/sgublog/?p=172
Airborne and False Advertising     http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=77
Oregon Man Claims He Is Pregnant     http://www.breitbart.tv/html/67684.html
Hypnotist Robs Banks     http://www.local6.com/spotlight/15694571/detail.html

Segment:   Interview     
Interview with Eugenie Scott     Eugenie Scott is the Executive Director of the National Center for Science Eduction: http://www.natcenscied.org/

She discusses, among other topics, the new ID propaganda film, Expelled: http://www.expelledexposed.com/

Segment:   Science or Fiction     [ Click Here to Show the Answers ]
Question #1     Falling coconuts kill more people each year than shark attacks.
Question #2     Astronauts in orbit cannot burp.
Question #3     DNA was first discovered and isolated by Swiss biologist Johan Friedrich Miescher in 1869.
Question #4     Sweden boasts a working hotel sculpted entirely from ice, which has to be rebuilt from scratch each winter.
 
 
Home About Resources Media Store Contact Site Map Credits ©2008 THE NEW ENGLAND SKEPTICAL SOCIETY