Episode #287
News Items
Who's That Noisy
- Answer to last week: My Little Pony
Question #1 – Nassim Haramein
- Hey Rogues (and Dr Plait, if I have your correct email!), One of my (not-so-skeptical) friends linked me to this video featuring ‘astronomer’ Nassim Haramein talking about his models of planetary and solar activity. It sounds pretty bunk to me, but his models are interesting. This is the video I was shown: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ir5sQEg0rs4 What do you guys think of this? Might be an interesting topic for the podcast perhaps. Love the podcast! All the best, Tom Kilworth
Science or Fiction
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Item #1
Science
Scientists have developed a new type of glass that has greater toughness and strength than any known material. http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2011/01/10/new-glass-tops-steel/
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Item #2
Fiction
Scientists have developed a camera that is able to not only image otherwise invisible blood stains but also discriminate among the major (ABO) blood types. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101110123943.htm
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Item #3
Science
In a series of studies researchers find that subjects prefer skin color darkened by eating fruits and vegetables to skin darkened by tanning. http://www.ehbonline.org/article/S1090-5138%2810%2900116-9/abstract
Skeptical Quote of the Week.
Reality has been around since long before you showed up. Don’t go calling it nasty names like ‘bizarre’ or ‘incredible’. The universe was propagating complex amplitudes through configuration space for ten billion years before life ever emerged on Earth. Quantum physics is not ‘weird’. You are weird. -Eliezer Yudkowsky