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The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe - Podcast 389 - 12/29/2012
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Podcast 389 - December 29, 2012

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SGU 2012 Year in Review
This Day in Skepticism: Thomas Fuller
Best and Worst of 2012
In Memoriam
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction



Segment:   This Day in Skepticism     
December 29, 1790     Thomas Fuller dies, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Fuller_(mental_calculator)

Segment:   Best and Worst of 2012     
Best and Worst of 2012     The Rogues review the last year of the SGU, science, and skepticism

Segment:   In Memoriam     
In Memoriam     The Rogues remember those we lost over the last year

Segment:   Who's That Noisy     
Who's That Noisy     Answer to last week: Tetris theme

Segment:   Science or Fiction     [ Click Here to Show the Answers ]
Item #1     Biologists have discovered a species of small jellyfish that can float briefly above the surface of the water to evade predators. http://theweek.com/article/index/228428/the-10-weirdest-new-species-of-2012
Item #2     Scientists have discovered a cyanobacterium that creates calcified structures inside its cell. http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/340281/description/Bony_bacteria
Item #3     An entomologist discovered a new species of lacewing fly from a picture posted on Flickr. http://mashable.com/2012/12/05/new-species-2012/
Item #4     A new species of primate was discovered - cute and cuddly looking, but with two tongues and highly venomous. http://blogs.voanews.com/science-world/2012/12/14/new-species-of-worlds-only-poisonous-primate-found/

Segment:   Skeptical Quote of the Week     
Skeptical Quote of the Week     “...... it has become my conviction that things mean pretty much what we want them to mean. We’ll pluck significance from the least consequential happenstance if it suits us and happily ignore the most flagrantly obvious symmetry between separate aspects of our lives if it threatens some cherished prejudice or cosily comforting belief; we are blindest to precisely whatever might be most illuminating.” Iain Banks.
 
 
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