Episode #482

Episode #482

News Items

• Bending iPhones
• Martial Arts Nonsense
• Doubting Black Holes
• Organic Molecules in Space
• Recognizing Faces

Who's That Noisy

• Answer to last week: Tom Cruise

Science or Fiction [ Show Answers ]

• Item #1 Science

  Frankenstein pieced together the parts of dead bodies. Finally he brought a creature to life. But Frankenstein’s creation was an eight-foot monster. Eventually the monster destroyed the biologist.

• Item #2 Fiction

  The regular consumption of meat in the diets of adolescents and young adults can result in an early onset of necrosis, a form of cell injury caused by toxins and infections.

• Item #3 Science

  Several centuries ago, some ‘very light skinned’ people were shipwrecked on a tropical island. After ‘many years under the tropical sun’, this light skinned population became ‘dark-skinned’.

Skeptical Quote of the Week.

‘Hope lies in dreams, in imagination and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.’ Jonas Salk