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The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe - Podcast 177 - 12/10/2008
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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
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December 10, 2008
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News Items: Age of the Sphinx with Dr. James P Allen, Supernova Reflections and Milky Way's Black Hole with Phil Plait, Searching for Dyson Spheres
Your Questions and E-mail: Skeptical Authority
Randi Speaks: Cold Reading
Science or Fiction
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Segment: News Items
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Segment: Questions and E-mails
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Question #1 Skeptical Authority
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I can't verify everything SGU covers, end up trusting most as fact. How doesn't it makes us skeps just another true believer?
Avsa
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Segment: Randi Speaks
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Randi Speaks
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Cold Reading
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Segment: Science or Fiction [ Click Here to Show the Answers ]
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Item #1  Science
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Scientists present research showing that sugar can be an addictive substance similar to cocaine or morphine.
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Item #2  Fiction
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Geologists have discovered evidence for the existence of a previously unknown minor continent that previously existed between southern African and South America.
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Item #3 Science
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For only the second time in history (the first being Neptune) astronomers have discovered a planet of the size and orbit where it was predicted one should be.
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Segment: Quote of the Week
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Quote of the Week
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"Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong." - Dr. Thomas Fuller
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Segment: Announcements
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