Episode #360

Episode #360

News Items

• Show #360
• Transit of Venus
• Legislating Science
• Science Education
• Quickie with Bob – Vapor Storage

Who's That Noisy

• Answer to last week: holosystolic murmur

Science or Fiction [ Show Answers ]

• Item #1 Science

  Scientists estimate that the number of undiscovered drugs in 10^60 (a million billion billion billion billion billion billion). http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120606132316.htm

• Item #2 Science

  An international team of scientists have published a paper in Nature finding that the world is rapidly approaching a tipping point of global ecological collapse. http://www.sfu.ca/pamr/media-releases/2012/study-predicts-imminent-irreversible-planetary-collapse.html

• Item #3 Fiction

  Biologists report on a recently discovered parasitic plant that transfers genes to its animal host in order to make it more hospitable. http://www.sciencecodex.com/stealing_lifes_building_blocks-92843

Skeptical Quote of the Week.

‘The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.’ - Ray Bradbury