Episode #683
News Items
- Remembering is Seeing
- Hothouse Tipping Point
- Proteins with Novel Amino Acids
- Weird Rogue Planet
- Spare the Rod
Who's That Noisy
- Answer to last week: Seal
Interview with Sean Carroll
- https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/
Science or Fiction
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Item #1
Fiction
Researchers find that after the legalization of medical marijuana in Pennsylvania, attitudes toward use became more accepting, tracking with an increase in recreational use. http://drexel.edu/now/archive/2018/August/In-PA-Youths-More-Tolerant-of-Marijuana/
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Item #2
Science
Astronomers find that Ganymede’s internal magnetic field increases the intensity of low frequency radio waves generated by Jupiter’s magnetic field by a factor of one million. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-05431-x
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Item #3
Science
A new study finds that immigrants not only use less health care per capita than native born, they may subsidize health care costs. http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/400920-study-immigrants-have-lower-health-care-costs-than-people-born-in-us
Skeptical Quote of the Week.
‘The true-believer syndrome merits study by science. What is it that compels a person, past all reason, to believe the unbelievable. How can an otherwise sane individual become so enamored of a fantasy, an imposture, that even after it’s exposed in the bright light of day he still clings to it — indeed, clings to it all the harder?… No amount of logic can shatter a faith consciously based on a lie.’ — M. Lamar Keene and Allen Spraggett