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The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe - Podcast 144 - 4/23/2008
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The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe is produced by SGU Productions, LLC - dedicated to promoting critical thinking, reason, and the public understanding of science through online and other media. The first episode of the SGU podcast went online on May 4th, 2005. It soon became a popular science/skeptical podcast, and remains one of the most popular science podcasts on iTunes.
SGU Podcasting Awards: SGU on XM: You can listen to the SGU on America's Talk XM 166 every Saturday night from 8-9pm Eastern.
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Podcast
144
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April 23, 2008
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Interview with Simon Singh
News Items: Man Raised from Dead, Politics of Vaccines, Penis Theft Panic
Your Questions and E-mails: Oldest Plant, The SGU Drinking Game, Space Junk, Brain Gym
Science or Fiction
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Segment: News Items
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Segment: Questions and E-mails
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Follow Up
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Oldest Living Thing
Hi guys,
you've probably had lots of emails on your comments about that 10 000 year old spruce clone and how it's the oldest living thing around. If not, can I please bring to your attention a plant here in Tasmania called Lomatia tasmanica (pron. low-may-shea). Like that spruce, it's a clone, and it's thought to be 43 000 years old. In your face Sweden!
See the section titled Ecology and management in the pdf found at this URL:
http://www.dpiw.tas.gov.au/inter.nsf/Attachments/SSKA-756W2H/$FILE/Lomatia%20tasmanica.pdf
Love your show by the way,
cheers,
Andrew Walsh
Australia, Tasmania
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SGU Drinking Game
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Dear SGU,
As you continue to become more popular, I feel you need to tap into a younger demographic. Seeing as I am a huge fan of the show, and a college student; I thought I'd be so kind to help. Using my knowledge from my marketing classes, I realized that if SGU wants to get more college age listeners they need something special. And as we all know, College age people love to drink. I thus was kind enough to put together a little SGU drinking game to hopefully help you get a younger demographic. Nothing like a bunch of drunk people gathered around a computer listening to some Skeptics, eh?
Here it is.
The SGU Drinking Game
Drink if:
Rebecca Watson makes a corny joke.
A Logical Fallacy is mentioned
Perry DeAngelis is mentioned, drink in honor.
A Novella makes a Star Trek reference
There is a long, boring conversation about birds that nobody has any interest in.
Steve Novella gets technical talking about the brain
James Randi is mentioned.
Someone say a bad pun
Evan does a this day in history.
Drink if the following words are spoken:
-Darwin
-Evolution
-Agnostic
-Pseudoscience
Drink entire time during quote of the week.
If you guess Science or Fiction correctly, pick someone else in the room to drink.
And for the truly daring.
Drink entire time Bob Novella reasons through Science or Fiction.
Sincerely your drunkest SGU fan,
-Keith Waznonis
L-Town, USA
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Segment: Interview
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Segment: Science or Fiction [ Click Here to Show the Answers ]
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Question #1  Fiction
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Biologists have rediscovered a lizard which was transplanted to an island 36 years ago then left undisturbed. What they found had undergone so much evolutionary change that, while still a lizard, warrants a new family designation of its own.
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Question #2  Science
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New study shows that sign language interpreters have among the highest risk for carpal tunnel syndrome and other ergonomic injuries, even higher than factory assembly line workers.
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Question #3 Science
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Hong Kong Flu - A new study shows that most influenza virus outbreaks do originate in Hong Kong and other parts of Asia and then spread around the globe.
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Segment: Quote of the Week
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Quote
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"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err."
-Mahatma Gandhi
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