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The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe - Podcast 319 - 8/24/2011
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The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe

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Podcast 319 - August 24, 2011

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This Day in Skepticism
News Items: Virginia Earthquake, Brand Loyalty
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Tin Foil and RFID
Swindler's List: Functional Medicine
Science or Fiction



Segment:   This Day in Skepticism     
August 27, 2003     The world's biggest battery was connected to provide emergency power to Fairbanks, Alaska's second-largest city.

Segment:   News Items     
Earthquake in Virginia     http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/se082311a.html
Brand Loyalty     http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/brand-loyalty/

Segment:   Who's That Noisy     
Who's That Noisy     Answer to last week: the video game Archon

Segment:   Questions and Emails     
Question #1 - Tin Foil and Credit Cards     atomsk359 christopher short got handed a creditcard after the woman unwraped it from tinfoil, stops people from reading it she said, plausible or nosible

Segment:   Swindler's List     
Functional Medicine     http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/28731977/detail.html

Segment:   Science or Fiction     [ Click Here to Show the Answers ]
Item #1     Planetary scientists have produced a computer model that suggests that the early earth had two moons. http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110803/full/news.2011.456.html
Item #2     Scientists discover antibodies that may explain chronic symptoms that persist following Lyme disease. http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110805/full/news.2011.463.html
Item #3     New research supports the claims that some bacteria can feed off arsenic instead of phosphorous. http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110809/full/news.2011.469.html

Segment:   Skeptical Quote of the Week     
Skeptical Quote of the Week     "Science is like a blabbermouth that ruins the end of a movie. Well I say there are things we don't want the answers to. Important things." Ned Flanders
 
 
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