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The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe - Podcast 311 - 6/29/2011

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Podcast 311 - June 29, 2011

Interview with Eugenie Scott
This Day in Skepticism
News Items: Tau Day, Body Temperature of Dinosaurs Measured, Magnets and Blood Flow, Guru in Sweat Lodge Death Convicted, Close Call for the Space Station
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction



Segment:   This Day in Skepticism     
July 2 1843     Samuel Christian Friedrich Hahnemann - a German physician, founder of the system of therapeutics known as homeopathy - died.

Segment:   News Items     
Tau Day     http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13906169
Body Temperature of Dinosaurs Measured     http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110628132557.htm
Magnets and Blood Flow     http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/magnets-and-blood-flow/
Guru in Sweat Lodge Deaths Convicted     http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/23/us/23sweat.html?_r=2
Close Call for Space Station     http://gawker.com/5816596/space-station-nearly-obliterated-no-big-deal

Segment:   Who's That Noisy     
Who's That Noisy     Answer to last week: Brian May

Segment:   Interview     
Interview with Eugenie Scott     Director of the National Center for Science Education

Segment:   Science or Fiction     [ Click Here to Show the Answers ]
Item #1     A recent extensive DNA analysis of coconuts indicates that all modern cultivated coconuts derive from a single ancestral variety located in Indonesia. http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/22438.aspx
Item #2     Paleontologists have discovered fossilized eyes 515 million years old - they are surprisingly complex compound eyes with about 3,000 lenses. http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-fossils-powerful-eyes-evolved-twinkling.html
Item #3     A new study finds that wars have been increasing steadily over the last century by 2% per year on average. http://www..warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/wars_steadily_increase

Segment:   Skeptical Quote of the Week     
Skeptical Quote of the Week     "If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another, and science will do for them all they wish and more than they can dream." - Winston Churchill
 
 
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