Episode #459
News Items
Who's That Noisy
- Answer to last week: Clown Fish
Science or Fiction
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Item #1
Science
Research shows that people will take longer to leave a parking space if they see someone is waiting for the spot. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1559-1816.1997.tb00661.x/abstract
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Item #2
Science
New research indicates that deliberate breeding likely played little role in the domestication of animals. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/04/140417090826.htm
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Item #3
Fiction
Scientists have finally explained the source of the mysterious southern ocean sound known as the “bio-duck” – the sound is produced by hydrothermal vents. http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/press_release/pr2014/scispot/ss1403/
Skeptical Quote of the Week.
‘The patient, treated on the fashionable theory, sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine.’ -Thomas Jefferson