Episode #486

Episode #486

News Items

• Using Stem Cells to Cure Cancer
• Skydiving Record
• The Pope and Evolution
• Dowsing In Australia

Who's That Noisy

• Answer to last week: Gordon Cooper

Science or Fiction [ Show Answers ]

• Item #1 Science

  In the El Sidron cave in Spain, archaeologists found the remains of 12 Neanderthals, three children, three teenagers, and six adults. All 12 were killed, butchered, and eaten raw by other humans. http://archaeology.about.com/od/shthroughsiterms/qt/el_sidron.htm

• Item #2 Science

  Italian Egyptologist Girolamo Segato discovered a method for preserving flesh by turning it into stone. His process of petrification from almost 200 years ago remains a mystery and has never been duplicated. http://professorelliot.com/2013/01/petrifaction-as-preservation-girolamo-segato/

• Item #3 Fiction

  Archaeologists examining the prehistoric remains of dozens of butchered adults in the Sacred Ridge region of Colorado have concluded that the butchers were all children, indicating that they wiped out the adults of their village in a single orgy of blood, perhaps as revenge for the practice of child sacrifice.

Skeptical Quote of the Week.

‘Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant generals, the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great creative scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned if at all.’ ~ Martin Gardner, mathematician and writer (1914-2010)