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The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe - Podcast 356 - 5/12/2012

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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 356 - May 12, 2012

This Day in Skepticism
News Items: Dinosaur Farts, Aura Reading, 48 Frames per Second, Baby Powder, Killing Bigfoot, TAM2012
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction



Segment:   This Day in Skepticism     
May 12, 1910     Today is the birthday of Dorothy Hodgkin

Segment:   News Items     
Dinosaur Farts     http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/05/07/study-dinosaurs-may-have-caused-extinction-with-flatulence/
Aura Reading     http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/is-aura-reading-synaesthesia-probably-not/
48 Frames per Second     http://phys.org/news/2012-05-high-cinema-booed.html
Baby Powder     http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/southkorea/9250438/Pills-filled-with-powdered-human-baby-flesh-found-by-customs-officials.html
Killing Bigfoot     http://io9.com/5907846/its-officially-legal-to-kill-bigfoot-in-texas
SGU Dinner at TAM 2012     http://www.amazingmeeting.com/TAM2012/program

Segment:   Who's That Noisy     
Who's That Noisy     Answer to last week: Steve Spangler

Segment:   Science or Fiction     [ Click Here to Show the Answers ]
Item #1     Astronomers have demonstrated the ability to detect the composition of expolanet atmospheres by viewing massive lightening discharges. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/news/lightning-planets.html
Item #2     Astronomers find that solar systems with so-called hot Jupiters do not have any other detectable planets in their system. http://news.ufl.edu/2012/05/07/hot-jupiters/
Item #3     Astronomers plan to view the upcoming transit of Venus across the sun with the Hubble telescope by using the moon as a giant mirror. http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2012/22

Segment:   Skeptical Quote of the Week     
Skeptical Quote of the Week     “Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardonable sin.” — Thomas Henry Huxley
 
 
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