Segment #1. News Items: The
Skeptics’ Guide 1 year anniversary, UFO’s in the UK, Scientology
Superheroes
Segment #2. Your E-mails: UFO’s
and Satellites, Drinking water
Segment #3. Interview with Eugenie Scott
Segment #1. News Items
News Item #1 – The
Skeptics’ Guide 1 year anniversary
That’s right, the Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe just passed the
one year mark (our first podcast was recorded on
News Item #2 – No
UFO’s in the
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4981720.stm
News Item #3 –
Scientology Superheroes
Segment #2. Your E-mails
E-mail #1 - UFO’s and Satellites
Greetings from the
Stumbled across your pod cast after listening to part of some other pod cast
where Lloyd Pye was being interviewed and couldnt believe the absurdity of how he dealt with science.
I was looking for a dose of rationality and found it with you folks.
In one of the earlier pod casts, you were talking about how various night sky
objects get mistaken for UFOs There is a great website that tracks the various
manmade satellites orbiting the earth, put in your location information and you
can get a schedule of what is coming up or what has already passed by. I have
noticed how some UFO reports coincide with satellite passage. If you get a
chance check out one of the Iridium satellite flares when they pass over your
area, they are quite spectacular some are a magnitude -9
http://www.heavens-above.com
Your pod casts have sharpened my critical thinking; I
find them to be quite entertaining as well as informative. However there has
been one unfortunate side effect, my Echinacea seems to have stopped working.
Keep up the good work & great shows.
(Dont let the name fool you, Im
a guy)
E-mail #2 - How
much water?
Hi guys, I'm a big fan of the podcast. This week you
talked about a spa pamphlet that said we should drink 8 glasses of water a day.
That sounds like bunk to me. Shouldn't it be the body needs the EQUIVALENT OF 8
glasses of water a day? Don't we get water from the food and the juices we take
everyday?
If we get a good night sleep (8 hours) that leaves 16 during the day so that's
1 glass every 2 hours. My guess is that if you try it, you'll feel so bloated
you won't do if again.
Is it just me or is this bunk?
Keep up the good work.
Fred Lauziere
Segment #3. Interview with Eugenie C. Scott
Dr. Scott is the director
of the
Eugenie Scott studied at the University of
Missouri - Columbia where she obtained a Ph.D. in anthropology.
She served as president of the American Association
of Physical Anthropologists from 2000 to 2002.
She was elected as a Fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science and awarded an honorary D.Sc. by McGill
University in 2003
and by Ohio State University in 2005. She is also a
fellow of the Committee
for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal.
Full Wikipedia
entry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenie_Scott)
Segment #4. Science or
Fiction
Each week our host will come up with three science news items or facts, two genuine, one fictitious. He will challenge our panel of skeptics to sniff out the fake – and you can play along.
Theme for this week is animal speech.
Item#1: Bottle-nose dolphins appear to have names and identify themselves to other dolphins by this signature sound.
Item #2: Studies with European starlings indicate that they understand a basic rule of grammar previously thought to be unique to humans.
Item #3: Primatologists studying the protolanguage of the rhesus macaque have discovered their vocabulary contains basic mathematical concepts, such as numbers and operations, like addition.
Answer:
Item #1: Science –
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/060508_dolphinfrm.htm
Item #2: Science – http://www.world-science.net/othernews/060426_starlingfrm.htm
Item #3: Fiction – Fiction