Episode #304

Episode #304

News Items

• Einstein Right Again
• Mark Geier's License Suspended
• Moon Microbe Mystery
• Steytlerville Monster

Who's That Noisy

• Answer to last week: Quote from Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Interview with Jon Ronson

• Author of The Men Who Stare at Goats, and now The Psychopath Test

Science or Fiction [ Show Answers ]

• Item #1 Science

  The first solid state amplifier (transistor) was made of germanium, which dominated the transistor industry from 1947 into the 1960s, until it was ultimately replaced by the silicon transistor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanium

• Item #2 Science

  Marie and Pierre Curie had a daughter, Irene Joliot-Curie, who also won a Nobel prize jointly with her husband for work with radiation, and (like her mother) died prematurely of radiation-induced leukemia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ir%C3%A8ne_Joliot-Curie

• Item #3 Fiction

  Mercury is the only element that is a liquid at room temperature. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromine

Skeptical Quote of the Week.

‘Homeopathy is the idea that we just cured the world of terrorism by dumping Osama’s corpse in the ocean.’ - Sean Mcfly ’I believed in reincarnation in my last life but I’m not to sure about it in this one.’ - Stephanie Beach