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The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe - Podcast 276 - 10/27/2010
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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 276 - October 27, 2010

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News Items: Ghosts Calling Cellphones, Hawking Radiation, More On Radioactive Decay Rates, The Science of Medicine, NECSS 2011, Physics.org Award Nomination
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Time Traveling Cell Phone User
Interview with SGU Forums Moderators
Science or Fiction



Segment:   News Items     
Ghosts Calling Cell Phones     http://sify.com/news/paranormal-expert-claims-ghosts-are-using-cell-phones-to-contact-friends-news-international-kkxpaegaeee.html
Hawking Radiation     http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/44093
More on Radioactive Decay Rates     http://www.nist.gov/mml/analytical/14c_091410.cfm
The Science of Medicine     http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=7734
Enter very brief news headline     - NECSS 2011 - save the date: April 9th and 10th - Physics.org Podcast Nomination: http://www.physics.org/toplistdetail.asp?id=15

Segment:   Who's That Noisy     
Who's That Noisy     Answer to last week - the US Space Shuttle launching

Segment:   Questions and E-mails     
Question #1 - Time Traveling Cell Phone User     Cell phone in Charlie Chaplin Flick? Just saw this in my feed reader....any ideas? Love the show! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6a4T2tJaSU Todd Barnard Denver CO

Segment:   Interview     
Interview with SGU Forums Moderators     SGUForums.com Moderators Doug, Karen, Amanda, and Steven join us for a chat about the SGU Forums

Segment:   Science or Fiction     [ Click Here to Show the Answers ]
Item #1     The world record for the heaviest pumpkin is 1810.5 pounds http://www.pumpkinnook.com/giants/giantpumpkins.htm
Item #2     According to Celtic superstition, if you look into a mirror at midnight on Halloween you will see your own death. http://tinyurl.com/sciorfic01
Item #3     Americans consume about 25 pounds of candy per capita per year. http://directmag.com/mag/marketing_candy_lovers/
Item #4     In a process called saponification, some corpses spontaneously turn partially into soap rather than decompose. http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A2451683

Segment:   Quote of the Week     
Quote of the Week     "All scientific work is incomplete - whether it be observational or experimental. All scientific work is liable to be upset or modified by advancing knowledge. That does not confer upon us a freedom to ignore the knowledge we already have, or to postpone the action that is appears to demand at a given time. "Who knows, asked Robert Browning, but the world may end tonight? True, but on available evidence most of us make ready to commute on the 8:30 the next day." - Sir Austin Bradford Hill, “The Environment and Disease: Association or Causation?,” Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, 58 (1965), 295-300. Sir Austin Bradford Hill
 
 
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