Episode #575
News Items
- Solar Panel Impact
- Ancient Supernovae
- Kubrick Moon Landing Hoax
- Neurasthenia
- Tiny-armed dinosaur
- New Dwarf Planet
Who's That Noisy
- Answer to last week: Carbon fiber bicycle wheels
Science or Fiction
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Item #1
Science
Scientists create a plastic polymer barrier that is 1 million times less permeable to water by adding a monolayer of graphene. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsnano.6b02588
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Item #2
Fiction
A biodynamic study of sauropod necks shows that, in order to be stable they would have had to be very rigid, with a range of motion no more than five degrees in any direction. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/07/160711120523.htm
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Item #3
Science
A biodynamic study of sauropod necks shows that, in order to be stable they would have had to be very rigid, with a range of motion no more than five degrees in any direction. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/07/160711120523.htm
Skeptical Quote of the Week.
‘It is not the antiquity of a tale that is an evidence of its truth; on the contrary, it is a symptom of its being fabulous.’ – Thomas Paine, Age of Reason