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The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe - Podcast 305 - 5/18/2011
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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.

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Podcast 305 - May 18, 2011

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Interview with James Randi
This Week in Skepticism
News Items: Rapture, Another Cancer Cure, Gut Bacteria and Behavior, Habitable Exoplanet, Higgs False Alarm
Who's That Noisy
Swindlers List: Bidsell
Science or Fiction



Segment:   This Day in Skepticism     
May 21, 1916     Daylight Saving Time was introduced in Britain as a war-time measure to save fuel.

Segment:   News Items     
Rapture     http://skepchick.org/2011/05/ai-its-the-end-of-the-world-again/
Another Cancer Cure     http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/another-cure-for-cancer/
Gut Bacteria and Behavior     http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110517110315.htm
Habitable Exoplanet     http://uk.news.yahoo.com/first-habitable-planet-discovered.html
Higgs False Alarm     http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13424231

Segment:   Who's That Noisy     
Who's That Noisy     Answer to last week - Jumping Spider

Segment:   Swindlers List     
Swindlers List     Bidsell.com

Segment:   Interview     
Interview with James Randi     http://www.randi.org

Segment:   Science or Fiction     [ Click Here to Show the Answers ]
Item #1     Imaging studies of ancient Egyptian mummies find an almost complete absence of atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries), even in the older individuals.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110517121824.htm
Item #2     Astronomers have detected a new class of planet - Jupiter-sized rogue planets wandering interstellar space, and estimate their number at 400 billion in the Milky Way.
http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110518/full/news.2011.303.html
Item #3     Researchers find that exposure to cockroach antigen is a significant contributor to childhood asthma.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110517151301.htm

Segment:   Skeptical Quote of the Week     
Skeptical Quote of the Week     "I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark." — Stephen Hawking
 
 
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