Episode #446
News Items
Who's That Noisy
- Answer to last week: first voice recording
Science or Fiction
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Item #1
Fiction
A team of physicists report that they have, for the first time, created a magnetic monopole in a laboratory. http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/133/821/60
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Item #2
Science
Researchers find that some children who were born blind can still have significant development of vision following corrective surgery even as old as 15 years. http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/01/15/1311041111
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Item #3
Science
A new study finds that antioxidants speed the progression of lung cancer in mice. http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/6/221/221ra15
Skeptical Quote of the Week.
‘Sometimes it happens that a man’s intellectual horizon becomes smaller and smaller, and as the radius approaches zero it concentrates on one point. And then that becomes his point of view.’ — David Hilbert