Episode #455
News Items
David Gorski and Bob Blaskiewicz
- regarding Stanislaw Burzynski https://www.change.org/petitions/rep-darrell-issa-protect-desperate-patients-from-the-houston-cancer-quack https://thehoustoncancerquack.com https://theotherburzynskipatientgroup.wordpress.com https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/stanislaw-burzynski-the-early-years-part-1/
Science or Fiction
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Item #1
Science
Scientists report that they have been able to create a quantum entanglement between two particles in 103 dimensions, breaking the previous record of 11 dimensions. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140327100612.htm
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Item #2
Science
Researchers have built logic circuits out of slime molds, opening the door to slime-based computing.https://www.elsevier.com/about/press-releases/research-and-journals/computing-with-slime
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Item #3
Fiction
A new study finds that the amount of time spent playing online games correlates with increasing non-virtual social isolation.https://news.ncsu.edu/releases/wms-taylor-gamelife2014/
Skeptical Quote of the Week.
‘A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence skepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.’ Denis Diderot