Episode #868
News Items
Who's That Noisy
- Answer to last week: Old English
Science or Fiction
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Item #1
Science
Astronomers have detected two supermassive black holes orbiting each other at the center of a distant galaxy, and are the closest such binary with an orbital period of just two years.
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Item #2
Science
A new analysis finds that global farmland use could be cut 37-48% globally with the adoption of optimal farming practices. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0263063
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Item #3
Fiction
A new study finds that the impact that caused the K-Pg extinction that killed the dinosaurs occurred at 3 in the afternoon, plus or minus 90 minutes. https://vu.nl/en/news/2022/the-reign-of-the-dinosaurs-ended-in-spring
Skeptical Quote of the Week.
“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.’ - Charles Darwin