Episode #501
News Items
Science or Fiction
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Item #1
Science
In the year 500 BCE the estimated human population was 100,000,000. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population_estimates
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Item #2
Fiction
In the 20th century there were four 500 year floods of the Mississippi river. http://mvs-wc.mvs.usace.army.mil/papers/paper1/paper1.html
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Item #3
Science
The Western Electric Model 500 telephone was the standard Bell System phone in North America from 1950 through 1984, and is the most common telephone ever produced. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_500_telephone
Skeptical Quote of the Week.
“It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.” - Carl Sagan