Episode #179
News Items
- http://www.nature.com/ncpgasthep/journal/v5/n4/full/ncpgasthep1067.html”>Jeremy Piven’s Mercury Poisoning
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http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/fathers-mannatech-mania-hurts-girl/2008/12/16/1229189611237.html
LA Wins Suit Against Airborne
http://laist.com/2008/12/16/california_sues_wins_airborne_doesn.php
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24755186-1702,00.html?from=public_rssChinese Face Transplant Recipient Dies After Rejecting Drugs in Favor of Herbs
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,24829166-23109,00.htmlMan Dies from Foot Infection
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Healer_dies_after_letting_cut_foot_rot&in_article_id=405720&in_page_id=34″>What’s the Harm - Da Vinci Sketches Revealed
- Medium Experiments Follow up
Question #1 ET Life
- We frequently hear from scientists that life on other planets would require the presence of water or carbon or a particular range in temperature. This may be true if they are looking for life as we find it on Earth. But is this a parochial bias? Are there reasons why life, which would require molecules with the ability to replicate themselves, cannot be fundamentally differently organized from what we find locally, and exist in radically different conditions?
Daniel Robbins
New York City - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7789302.stm
Hi,
This news article talks about commonly held beliefs which the study says are wrong. I wondered if you had seen it and what your thoughts on it were.Regards
Sion Hughes
UK
Science or Fiction
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Item #1
Fiction
In a recent study researchers find that the children of first cousins have an overall lower risk of genetic disease than the general population.
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Item #2
Science
Researchers have developed a new kind of laser from a device one-tenth the thickness of a human hair.
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Item #3
Science
Scientists have documented a case of a blind man who can flawlessly navigate an obstacle course without relying upon any other senses.
Skeptical Quote of the Week.
“The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.”- Leonardo da Vinci