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The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe - Podcast 200 - 5/20/2009
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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.
SGU Podcasting Awards: SGU on XM: You can listen to the SGU on America's Talk XM 166 every Saturday night from 8-9pm Eastern.
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Podcast
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May 20, 2009
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News Items: SGU 200th Episode, Missing Link Ida, GPS Failure, Stem Cell Quackery in China
Your Questions and E-mails: Candiru, If I Had a Million Dollars
Science or Fiction
Who's That Noisy
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Segment: News Items
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Segment: Questions and E-mails
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Question # 1 - Candiru Fish Story
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Several years ago a coworker brought an article to my attention in an issue of Maxim referring to the "fish feared by all men of the Amazon", for its tendency to follow the flow of urine and swim up the human male urethra, thereby lodging itself and being nearly impossible to remove.
He was convinced it had to be true, "Why else would Maxim print it?" I had my doubts. To me it all sounded like the kind of nonsense tailor made to strike fear in the heart (and other dearer parts) of a Maxim subscriber. I noted it made no mention of the fish being attracted to women, or other mammals, for that matter, merely to urine produced by human males. The article went so far as to imply this was a stage of the catfish's life cycle.
Since then this fish story has reemerged over and over again, but my attempts to find any information on it haven't been terribly successful. Mostly it sounds like an urban legend, but I was wondering if you had any insights.
Eddie G.
St. Louis
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Question # 2 - One Million Dollars
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I understand that you do all this show on your free time, and that your expenses are covered by donations.
So I wonder, what would you do with [insert Dr. Evil] one million dollars?
More seriously - what would you do if somebody donated huge amounts of cash to SGU? Would you do more shows? Quit your day jobs? Hire people to help with production? Spend it all on one huge party?
I wish to stress that I am not a crazy rich person, but you never know, there might be somebody listening, so keep that in mind when you discuss this
Thanks for a great show!
Lasse Marøen
(Pronunciation guide: La-seh Ma-reux-an)
e body of the email here
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Segment: Science or Fiction [ Click Here to Show the Answers ]
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Segment: Who's That Noisy
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Whos That Noisy
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Answer to last week - Dean Radin
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Segment: Quote of the Week
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Quote of the Week
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Science is simply common sense at its best that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
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