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The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe - Podcast 400 - 3/16/2013

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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 400 - March 16, 2013

This Day in Skepticism: Lawrence Oates
News Items: Meteorite Fossils, Duane Gish Dies, Acupuncture Meta-Analysis, Live to 150, Close Star Discovered
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction



Segment:   This Day in Skepticism     
March 16, 1912,     Historical badass Captain Lawrence Oates sacrifices himself for Scott's Terra Nova Expedition in the most badass way possible.

Segment:   News Items     
Meteorite Fossils     http://phys.org/news/2013-03-astrobiologists-meteorite-space-algae.html
Duane Gish Dies     http://ncse.com/news/2013/03/duane-t-gish-dies-0014753
Acupuncture Meta-Analysis     http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/revenge-of-the-woo/ http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/another-acupuncture-meta-analysis-low-back-pain/
Live to 150     http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2291254/New-drug-developed-using-compound-red-wine-help-humans-live-150.html

Segment:   Who's That Noisy     
Who's That Noisy     Answer to last week: Yvan

Segment:   Science or Fiction     [ Click Here to Show the Answers ]
Item #1     A new study finds that those infected with HIV have no increase in mortality if they are well controlled on medication. - http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-03/wkh-nii031113.php
Item #2     Recently published research finds that screening colonoscopy did not increase survival. - http://www.utmb.edu/newsroom/article8352.aspx
Item #3     Engineers have built a self-healing integrated-circuit chip able to repair itself and resume function even after significant damage. - http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130311173907.htm

Segment:   Skeptical Quote of the Week     
Skeptical Quote of the Week     "Our inner weighing of evidence is not a careful mathematical calculation resulting in a probabilistic estimate of truth, but more like a whirlpool blending of the objective and the personal. The result is a set of beliefs - both conscious and unconscious - that guide us in interpreting all the events of our lives." - Leonard Mlodinow
 
 
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