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The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe - Podcast 254 - 5/26/2010

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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 254 - May 26, 2010

Interview with James Randi about Martin Gardner
News Items: Energy of Early Life, End for Mars Phoenix Lander and Atlantis, Vaccine Safety, Accepting Science, Exonerated by Acupuncture
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction



Segment:   News Items     
Energy of Early Life     http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100525094906.htm
End for Mars Phoenix Lander and Atlantis     http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64O06N20100525
Vaccine Safety     http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/?p=1976
Accepting Science     http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2010/05/psychological-barriers-facing-mmr.html http://www..interscience.wiley.com/journal/123328312/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0 http://www.uiowa.edu/~grpproc/crisp/crisp15_3.pdf
Exonerated by Acupuncture     http://www.timeslive.co.za/world/article466250.ece/Acupuncturist-pricks-holes-in-rape-conviction

Segment:   Who's That Noisy     
Who's That Noisy     Answer to last week: Michael Savage

Segment:   Interview     
Interview with James Randi     Randi discusses his life-long friend, Martin Gardner, who passed away this week at 95.

Segment:   Science or Fiction     [ Click Here to Show the Answers ]
Item #1     Doctors recently diagnosed a man as having the first ever brain infection with a computer virus. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10158517.stm
Item #2     Scientists have built the word's smallest electronic device - a transistor consisting of only 7 atoms. http://www.physorg.com/news193317154.html
Item #3     New studies find that having allergies significantly reduces the risk of acquiring certain cancers. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1280728/Allergies-slash-risk-cancer-They-help-boost-immune-say-experts.html

Segment:   Quote of the Week     
Quote of the Week     "Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant generals - the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned, if at all." Martin Gardner
 
 
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