Episode #319
News Items
Who's That Noisy
- Answer to last week: the video game Archon
Science or Fiction
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Item #1
Science
Planetary scientists have produced a computer model that suggests that the early earth had two moons. http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110803/full/news.2011.456.html
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Item #2
Science
Scientists discover antibodies that may explain chronic symptoms that persist following Lyme disease. http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110805/full/news.2011.463.html
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Item #3
Fiction
New research supports the claims that some bacteria can feed off arsenic instead of phosphorous. http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110809/full/news.2011.469.html
Skeptical Quote of the Week.
‘Science is like a blabbermouth that ruins the end of a movie. Well I say there are things we don’t want the answers to. Important things.’ Ned Flanders