Episode #761

Episode #761

News Items

• Coronavirus Update
• Proxima B Climate
• Drug Development with AI
• Frame Dragging System
• Scream Therapy

Science or Fiction [ Show Answers ]

• Item #1 Science

  The Walnut Street Theater is the oldest theater in continuous operation in the English speaking world.

• Item #2 Science

  There is no evidence Betsy Ross stitched the first American Flag, a myth concocted 100 years after the alleged fact.

• Item #3 Fiction

  The first general computer, ENIAC, was built in Philadelphia. It weighed 27 tons and when fully turned on the lights in the city would dim.

Skeptical Quote of the Week.

‘Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We’ll have more computing power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the world today.’ - Ralph Merkle