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The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe - Podcast 391 - 1/12/2013
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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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January 12, 2013
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This Day in Skepticism: Dr. James Bedford
News Items: Below Absolute Zero, Burzynski Challenge, Genome Editing, Celebrity Pseudoscience, Oz Pseudoscience
Who's That Noisy
Name That Logical Fallacy
Science or Fiction
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Segment: This Day in Skepticism
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January 12, 1967
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Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation.
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Segment: News Items
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Segment: Who's That Noisy
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Who's That Noisy
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A jeweler has 9 pearls, which all look and feel exactly alike. However, he knows that one of them weighs more than the other 8. He has access to a classic scale (the ones with two arms, often seen in Lady Justice's hand). What is the minimum number of measurements required to know, with absolute certainty, which pearl is the one that weights more?
Answer: 2
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Segment: Name That Logical Fallacy
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Name That Logical Fallacy
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"It’s really not that hard to answer those questions no matter what understanding you come from. God of course created them full grown to start with. Adam did not have to wait for the trees to grow old enough to bear fruit from a seedling start. God did not create trees as seeds in the ground, and God according to Genesis did not create an egg for the first chicken to hatch from. The Starting place of growth of all creation is clearly full grown adulthood.
The light-year travel time is clearly by the same extension created already reaching the earth. Basically at the same extension that God created all the matter and energy and photons in the star light-years away, he also simultaneously created every photon from its rays traveling to earth."
http://www.debate.org/debates/The-fundamentalist-doctrine-of-Young-Earth-Creationism-is-incompatible-with-cosmic-realities./1/comments/2/
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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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"Captain, the most elementary and valuable statement in science, the beginning of wisdom, is 'I do not know.'"
- Lt. Commander Data played by Brent Spiner
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