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The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe - Podcast 346 - 3/3/2012
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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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Podcast 346 - March 03, 2012

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Interview with Gordon Maupin
This Day in Skepticism: Leap Year
News Items: Iceman Genome, FTL Neutrino Follow Up, More on Anti-Climategate, Drug Testing, Your Deceptive Brain
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction



Segment:   This Day in Skepticism     
February 29     Leap Year

Segment:   News Items     
Iceman Genome     http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17191398
FTL Neutrino Followup     http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/ftl-neutrinos-einstein-can-rest-easy/
More on Anti-Climategate     http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/15/leak-exposes-heartland-institute-climate
Drug Testing     http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/page/OTL-Ryan-Braun/ryan-braun-defense-raises-more-questions-doping-experts
Your Deceptive Mind     http://www.thegreatcourses.com/tgc/courses/course_detail.aspx?cid=9344

Segment:   Who's That Noisy     
Who's That Noisy     Answer to last week: Peter Sagal

Segment:   Interview     
Interview with Gordon Maupin     Topic: Fracking Gordon T. Maupin Executive Director The Wilderness Center, Inc.

Segment:   Science or Fiction     [ Click Here to Show the Answers ]
Item #1     An analysis of Triceratops and Torosaurus skulls indicates that they were indeed two separate species, not young and adult forms of one species as some paleontologists have suggested. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-02/plos-tcc022712.php
Item #2     A new analysis concludes that T. rex had the strongest bite of any animal to have ever lived on the Earth. http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/17159086
Item #3     A new species of dinosaur, Spinops, a cousin to Triceratops, was recently described and named in the literature - 95 years after the fossils were first discovered. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111206115051.htm

Segment:   Skeptical Quote of the Week     
Skeptical Quote of the Week     "How weak our mind is; how quickly it is terrified and unbalanced as soon as we are confronted with a small, incomprehensible fact. Instead of dismissing the problem with: "We do not understand because we cannot find the cause," we immediately imagine terrible mysteries and supernatural powers." -French author Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant, from his short horror story "Le Horla"
 
 
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