Episode #302
News Items
Who's That Noisy
- Answer to last week: Firesign Theater
Interview with Seth Shostak
- Seth work with the SETI Institute – the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, and comes on to discuss their recent funding problems.
Science or Fiction
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Item #1
Science
New research finds that people who take vitamin supplements are less healthy because they make other unhealthy choices. http://esciencenews.com/articles/2011/04/21/are.dietary.supplements.working.against.you
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Item #2
Fiction
Psychologists have identified a reliable method for selectively reducing traumatic memories in human subjects. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110427154315.htm
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Item #3
Science
Researchers find that sleep deprivation causes parts of the brain to go to sleep, even in fully awake individuals. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v472/n7344/full/nature10009.html
Skeptical Quote of the Week.
‘Thinking is skilled work. It is not true that we are naturally endowed with the ability to think clearly and logically—without learning how, or without practicing… People with untrained minds should no more expect to think clearly and logically than people who have never learned and never practiced can expect to find themselves good carpenters, golfers, bridge-players, or pianists.’ Alfred Mander, psychologist (1947)