Episode #829
News Items
- Non-Replicated Studies More Cited
- Maximum Human Lifespan
- Graphene Concrete
- Atomic Level Microscope
- Brain Game Pseudoscience
Who's That Noisy
- Answer to last week: Anvil
Interview with Mick West
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_West
Science or Fiction
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Item #1
Science
Astronomers find that 36 nearby dwarf galaxies, separated by as much as 13 million light years, experienced a simultaneous significant decrease 6 billion years ago followed by an increase 3 billion years ago in star formation. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/05/210524110241.htm
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Item #2
Fiction
A new review finds that the greatest risk from current self-driving cars is failure or errors of their sensing systems. https://www.technology.org/2019/02/26/top-5-dangers-of-self-driving-cars/
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Item #3
Science
A new study finds that the introduction of ride sharing services into a US city reduces sexual assault by 6.3%. https://phys.org/news/2021-05-ridesharing-sexual-assault.html
Skeptical Quote of the Week.
‘A very good theory will be one that makes very wide-ranging claims about the world, and which is consequently highly falsifiable, and is one that resists falsification whenever it is put to the test.” ― Alan F. Chalmers, PhD, from ‘What Is This Thing Called Science?’