| |
The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe - Podcast 208 - 7/11/2009
|
|
|
|
|
<<< Back to Podcast Archive
|
|
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.
|
Podcast
208
-
July 11, 2009
|
Live Recording from TAM 7
News Items: Microbot Plumbers, Archeological Dig, Sunspots Return, Blogs vs Journalists, Genie Sued
Science or Fiction
Live Questions
Rebecca's Wedding
|
|
|
|
Segment: News Items
|
|
|
Segment: Science or Fiction [ Click Here to Show the Answers ]
|
Item # 1  Science
|
Scientists report that application of a common herbicide to sweet corn actually increased its nutritional value.
|
Item # 2  Fiction
|
New research finds that the so-called “umami” taste of amino acids is not a distinct taste but a combination of other taste and olfactory sensations.
|
|
Item # 3 Science
|
Researchers have been able to create pluripotent stem cells from adult-derived cells, without the use of genes, virus, or reprogramming proteins.
|
|
Segment: Live Questions
|
|
Live Questions
|
The Rogues take live questions from the audience.
|
|
Segment: Rebecca's Wedding
|
|
|
Segment: Quote of the Week
|
|
Quote of the Week
|
We can forgive children who are afraid of the dark. The real tragedy is men who are afraid of the light.
Plato
|
|
|
|
|
|