Episode #421
News Items
Who's That Noisy
- Answer to last week: ringing rocks
Interview with Michael Mann
- http://www.meteo.psu.edu/holocene/public_html/Mann/index.php
Science or Fiction
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Item #1
Science
Scientists have developed a fully automated portable kit for testing the amount of caffeine in beverages. http://www.nature.com/srep/2013/130723/srep02255/full/srep02255.html
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Item #2
Science
Chemists have developed a process for making a strong alcoholic beverage from coffee grounds. http://news.sciencemag.org/technology/2013/08/scienceshot-shot-coffee-gets-you-drunk
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Item #3
Fiction
New research finds that pregnant women who drink coffee daily have a significant increase in the risk of certain birth defects. http://news.sciencemag.org/2013/08/no-coffee-pregnant-moms
Skeptical Quote of the Week.
‘Simplicity and beauty are the signs not of truth but of a well-constructed approximate model of a limited domain of phenomena.’ Lee Smolin in ”Time Reborn”