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The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe - Podcast 215 - 9/1/2009
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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.
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Podcast
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September 01, 2009
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Interview with Adam Savage
News Items: Multitasking, Methane Fog on Titan, Google Nessie, Evolving Mice
Your Questions and E-mails: Appendix, iPhone Crap App
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 - Appendix
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I recently came across an article that talked about the possible usefulness of the human appendix. I always thought and was taught that the appendix had no real purpose and was just leftover. Could you please talk about this, and the implications that this study could have for the evolution-creationism debate. The study was in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology. Thanks for all you do, as a recovering southern baptist and a new skeptic I find that your podcast very useful in my skeptical training.
Adam Waller
Aiken, SC
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Question # 2 - iPhone Crap App
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Found this on the web and had to laugh. It also kinda makes me mad. Would love if you could destroy this claim on the show. Keep up the great work :)
http://www.pocketpaindoctor.com/
Scott Eslinger
LaGrande OR
http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/video-pocket-pain-doctor-is-the-worst-iphone-app-ever/
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Segment: Interview
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Interview with Adam Savage
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Adam Savage is the co-host of the very popular Discovery Channel show - The Mythbusters.
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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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Who's That Noisy
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Answer to last week: Making a crop circle.
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Segment: Quote of the Week
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Quote of the Week
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You look at science (or at least talk of it) as some sort of demoralizing invention of man, something apart from real life, and which must be cautiously guarded and kept separate from everyday existence. But science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated. Science, for me, gives a partial explanation for life. In so far as it goes, it is based on fact, experience and experiment.
- Rosalind Franklin
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