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The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe - Podcast 288 - 1/19/2011
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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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January 19, 2011
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News Items: No Ghosts in my Backyard, Simulating Earth, Reaction to Bem's Psi Research, Engineered Chickens, Cloning Mammoths
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Sun as Battery, Land Sharks
Science or Fiction
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Segment: This Day in Skepticism
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Segment: News Items
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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: a cat
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Segment: Questions and E-mails
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Question #1 - The Sun as Battery
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Hello SGU - You guys are tremendous, witty, and knowledgeable. I'm so glad I found you one day about 8 months ago while looking for new science podcasts. Here in Colorado, the healthiest and most intelligent state in the Union :), we love SGU!
I'm working in the renewable energy industry now, so once in a while I get a cool-aid-chugging friend sending me links and info on what usually turns out to be your average perpetual motion/free energy machine.
This link is slightly different. Yes, this guy has all the credentials necessary for permanent residency in Cookville, USA, but there does appear to be an actual scientific effect going on here, so I thought you could set me straight on what I'm seeing.
http://greenecoclub.com/tesla/
Enjoy,
Tom Boyd
Denver CO
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Question #2 - Land Sharks
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Sharks swimming on the streets of (flooded) Australia
Jay will certainly love this one:
http://www.thechronicle.com.au/story/2011/01/14/ipswich-bull-sharks-spotted-flood-affected-streets/
Love the show, by the way!
Cheers,
Felipe Campelo
Belo Horizonte, Brazil
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Segment: Science or Fiction [ Click Here to Show the Answers ]
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Segment: Quote of the Week
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Quote of the Week
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"The tough mind is sharp and penetrating, breaking through the crust of legends and myths and sifting the true from the false. Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think."
— Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
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