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The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe - Podcast 82 - 2/15/2007
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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.
SGU Podcasting Awards: SGU on XM: You can listen to the SGU on America's Talk XM 166 every Saturday night from 8-9pm Eastern.
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Podcast
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February 15, 2007
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TAM 5 Interviews Part IV with Christopher Hitchens and South Parks Matt Stone; News Items: Psychic Healer, Score 1 for Evolution in Kansas, Paranormal Research Center Closes, Monkey Feng Shui; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
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Segment: News Items
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Segment: TAM Interviews Part IV
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TAM Interviews Part IV
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The Amazing Meeting Interviews Part IV
This week:
Christopher Hitchens
and South Park creator Matt Stone
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Segment: Science or Fiction [ Click Here to Show the Answers ]
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Question #1  Fiction
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A new study suggests that chimpanzees have been crafting and using stone tools for thousands of years.
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Question #2  Science
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Newly published article claims to have resolved Einstein's famous twin paradox.
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Question #3 Science
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Researchers have begun studying the use of magnets to correct sunken chest deformity.
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Segment: Skeptical Puzzle
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Puzzle
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This Week's Puzzle
Identify the number sequence:
0.0, 2.6, 23.4, 25.2, 3.1, 26.7, 97.8, 28.3
Last Week's Puzzle
Explain the following sequence:
10, 1, 5, 25, 50
Answer: American coinage from smallest to largest
Winner: Jared Zimmerman
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Segment: Quote of the Week
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Quote
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"I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be."
- Issac Asimov, his reply to the question "Don't you believe in anything?"
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