Episode #503
News Items
Who's That Noisy
- Answer to last week: Shepard’s Tone
Interview with Timothy Caulfield
- http://www.hli.ualberta.ca/People/TimothyCaulfield.aspx
Science or Fiction
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Item #1
Science
In Stockholm, wild rabbits are being culled and their corpses are being burned in a heating plant in central Sweden. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6316530/Stockholms-rabbits-burned-to-keep-Sweden-heated.html
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Item #2
Science
A Beverly Hills plastic surgeon used the waste from his patient’s liposuction to create biodiesel to fuel his SUV. http://topnews.us/content/21549-turning-liposuction-fat-fuel-gets-beverly-hills-doctor-trouble
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Item #3
Fiction
On the International Space Station, human waste is dried to reclaim moister, and the remains are burned to produce power for the station. http://www.space.com/22597-space-poop-astronaut-toilet-explained.html
Skeptical Quote of the Week.
‘There is not a discovery in science, however revolutionary, however sparkling with insight, that does not arise out of what went before.’ - Isaac Asimov