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The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe - Podcast 343 - 2/11/2012
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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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February 11, 2012
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This Day in Skepticism
News Items: 3D Printing, Morgellons Update, State Science Standards, Lake Vostok, Hard Drive Breakthrough
Special Report: Ouija Boards
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction
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Segment: This Day in Skepticism
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Feb 11, 1938
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BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television program, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Capek play R.U.R., that coined the term "robot".
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Segment: News Items
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Segment: Special Report
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Ouija Boards
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Jay reviews the history and an interesting story about Ouija boards
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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: leggo harpsicord
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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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"Feminism is best served by embracing reality, by thinking critically, and advancing rational arguments. This sloppy Newage shit-slurry of ingenuous gullibility is pure poison to the cause."
- PZ Myers, Pharyngula
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