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The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe - Podcast 310 - 6/22/2011
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Podcast 310 - June 22, 2011

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Guest Rogue: Michael Waterhouse
This Day in Skepticism
News Items: We Are All Mutants, Human Gecko, Creationists Infiltrate Geology Meeting, Battery Man
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction



Segment:   This Day in Skepticism     
June 25, 1994     In 1994, the capture of the first live specimen of the Vu Quang ox in Vietnam, a previously unknown species of mammal, was reported in the London newspaper The Times.

Segment:   News Items     
We are all mutants     http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/06/hyper-human-mutations-60-new-mutations-in-each-genome.html
Human Gecko     http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/06/darpa-z-man-program-to-enbale-wall.html?m=1
Creationsts Infiltrate Geology Meeting     http://www.earthmagazine.org/earth/article/456-7db-6-a
Battery Man     http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2003016/The-human-sausage-sizzler-Serb-Slavisa-Pajkic-claims-20-000-Volts-harm-him.html

Segment:   Who's That Noisy     
Who's That Noisy     Answer to last week: a watermelon

Segment:   Science or Fiction     [ Click Here to Show the Answers ]
Item #1     A review of research finds that the transition to agriculture from hunter-gathering consistently led to a decrease in height and overall health. http://tinyurl.com/5rlgjjm
Item #2     A recent study finds that college students who have later class start times have less daytime sleepiness and better grades. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-college-students-longer-grades-classes.html
Item #3     Researchers have developed a treatment for diseases that result from genetic mutations which cause protein synthesis to stop prematurely. http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/news/story/index.cfm?id=3226

Segment:   Skeptical Quote of the Week     
Skeptical Quote of the Week     “He who only knows his side of the case knows little. His reasons may have been good and no one may have been able to refute them, but if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side then he has no ground for preferring either option.” - John Stuart Mill
 
 
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