Episode #916

Episode #916

News Items

• NASA Experimental Technology
• Procrastination
• Bacteria That Eat Plastic
• Rubble Pile Asteroids
• Traumatic Brain Injury

Who's That Noisy

• Answer to last week: Rhino

Science or Fiction [ Show Answers ]

• Item #1 Science

  Typical manual dishwashing of just two sets of dishes costs more energy and water than running a full load of dishes in a modern dishwasher. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2515-7620/ab716b

• Item #2 Science

  Homes with incandescent bulbs use 15% of their electricity for lighting, which decreases to 1.5% with all LED bulbs. – https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/lighting-choices-save-you-money

• Item #3 Fiction

  Regardless of HVAC type, it is more energy efficient to keep your home’s thermostat at a constant seasonal temperature than to adjust it more frequently. https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/science-behind-modulating-heat-saves-energy/

Skeptical Quote of the Week.

“I see science in general as a form of arrogance control, in the sense that it’s one of the most organized methods we have of forcing us to put our beliefs to the test, and forcing us to face dissonance if the test does not confirm what we believe.” Carol Tavris