Episode #326

Episode #326

News Items

• Vitamins and Mortality
• Megavirus
• NDEs
• More UFOs
• Electrosense
• Airborne Petition

Who's That Noisy

• Answer to last week: Zaphod Beeblebrox IV

Interview with Stephen L. Macknik, Ph.D. and Susana Martinez-Conde, Ph.D.

• http://www.sleightsofmind.com/

Science or Fiction [ Show Answers ]

• Item #1 Fiction

  Astronomers discover that the intergalactic fog that was present in the early universe was likely cleared away by rogue black holes. http://ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/story.php?id=8611

• Item #2 Science

  Scientists discover that communication among bacteria plays an important role in global climate change. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111012151718.htm

• Item #3 Science

  A research team has created a new form (or allotrope) of carbon that has the hardness of diamond but is amorphous. http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-superhard-carbon.html

Skeptical Quote of the Week.

‘Imagination should give wings to our thoughts but we always need decisive experimental proof, and when the moment comes to draw conclusions and to interpret the gathered observations, imagination must be checked and documented by the factual results of the experiment.’ Louis Pasteur