Episode #434
News Items
Who's That Noisy
- Answer to last week: The McGurk Effect
Interview with Chris Mooney and Indre Viskontas
- http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2013/09/inquiring-minds-marsha-ivins-space
Science or Fiction
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Item #1
Fiction
A new long term study of astronauts finds that prolonged exposure to microgravity may reverse atherosclerotic changes in blood vessels. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/10/131031125317.htm
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Item #2
Science
Researchers have found that playing rock or pop music increases the efficiency of one type of solar cell by 40%.http://phys.org/news/2013-11-big-bolster-solar-cell-efficiency.html
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Item #3
Science
Orthopedic surgeons have identified a previously unknown ligament in the human knee. http://www.kuleuven.be/english/news/new-ligament-discovered-in-the-human-knee
Skeptical Quote of the Week.
“If we go back to the beginnings of things, we shall always find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that imagination, rapture and deception embellished them; that weakness worships them; that custom spares them; and that tyranny favors them in order to profit from the blindness of men.”– Baron d’Holbach