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The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe - Podcast 204 - 6/11/2009
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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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June 11, 2009
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Interview with Richard Wiseman
News Items: Negative CAM Research, Chiropractors In Retreat, Quantum Mechanics, Flu Pandemic Update
Your questions and E-mails: Youngest Skeptic, Prescient Genes
Science or Fiction
Whos That Noisy
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Segment: News Items
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Segment: Questions and E-mails
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Question # 1 - Youngest Skeptic
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Hello all, I am now 11, but have been listening to the podcast since I was 10 and have just heard the episode (SGU#77) in which you ask if there is any 10 year old skeptics. If you mention me on the podcast, please refer to me as Ainlina (my online nickname). Thank you for the great podcast.
PS I come from England
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Question # 2 - Prescient Genes
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I love your show; it is the best podcast I subscribe to. I have only listened to about 15 episodes, but that is enough of a sample size for me to know that this show is "like totally radical."
I have a two-part question that has been bugging me for awhile. As you can tell by my subject it is regarding evolution. My question is as follows:
Why do are genes want to get to the next generation or the future, and do our genes know something about the future that is so wonderful that could be the reason why they are evolving to make it there over the millions of years of evolution on this planet? Why would would genes or any species' genes want to live to make it to the future?
This question kind of philosophical, so will you give me your opinion or the leading hypothesis of the experts?
Thank you so much for reading my question, and I wish you continued success for your show and organization in the future.
Mark B.
Tampa, Florida
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Segment: Interview
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Interview with Richard Wiseman
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http://www.richardwiseman.com/
Prof Richard Wiseman is based at the University of Hertfordshire in the UK, and has gained an international reputation for research into quirky areas of psychology, including deception, humour, luck and the paranormal.
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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: Kenneth Arnold
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Segment: Quote of the Week
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Quote of the Week
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“In science, ‘fact’ can only mean ‘confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.’ I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.” - Stephen Jay Gould
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Segment: Announcements
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