Episode #430
News Items
Who's That Noisy
- Answer to last week
Interview with Marty Klein
- www.martyklein.com
Science or Fiction
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Item #1
Science
Scientists have discovered the first evidence of a comet striking the earth – part of a comet nucleus. http://www.wits.ac.za/newsroom/newsitems/201310/21649/news_item_21649.html
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Item #2
Science
Researchers have discovered a method for inhibiting the propagation of prion proteins, potentially leading to a cure for mad cow and related diseases. http://casemed.case.edu/newscenter/news-release/newsrelease.cfm?news_id=177
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Item #3
Fiction
Physicists have created stable exotic calcium nuclei (with 20 protons and 34 neutrons), suggesting the existence of a previously unknown force operating at nuclear scales. http://www.nature.com/news/exotic-nuclei-held-together-by-another-kind-of-magic-1.13918
Skeptical Quote of the Week.
‘The claim of alternative practitioners to not treat disease labels but the whole patient…allows alternative practitioners to live in a fool’s paradise of quackery where they believe themselves to be protected from any challenges and demands for evidence.’ - Edzard Ernst