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The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe - Podcast 312 - 7/5/2011
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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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July 05, 2011
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This Day in Skepticism
News Items: Classifying Galaxies, More Pareidolia, Easter Island Elixir, Driverless Cars, Elevatorgate
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction
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Segment: This Day in Skepticism
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July 9 1595
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Johannes Kepler published Mysterium cosmographicum (Mystery of the Cosmos)
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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 screw being dropped into a turbine engine
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Segment: Science or Fiction [ Click Here to Show the Answers ]
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Segment: Skeptical Quote of the Week
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Skeptical Quote of the Week
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"If agricultural land be left uncultivated, in a few years the jungle returns, and signs are not lacking that a similar danger is always lying in wait for the fields of thought, which, by the labour of three hundred years, have been cleared and brought into cultivation by men of science. The destruction of a very small percentage of the population would suffice to annihilate scientific knowledge, and lead us back to almost universal belief in magic, witchcraft and astrology."
- William Cecil Dampier Dampier-Whetham
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