Episode #574
News Items
Who's That Noisy
- Answer to last week: ocean whistle
Science or Fiction
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Item #1
Fiction
A new study finds that in the US, those classified as poor consumed more health care than the middle class or the wealthy. http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/35/7/1189.abstract
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Item #2
Science
Astronomers have discovered water clouds in the atmosphere of a brown dwarf, the first such discovery. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/07/160706151851.htm
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Item #3
Science
Researchers have successfully bred a domesticated rat that, in their study, never bit a human handler. http://phys.org/news/2016-07-rat.html
Skeptical Quote of the Week.
“The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there’s no good reason to go into space – each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision.” – Randall Munroe