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The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe - Podcast 181 - 1/7/2009
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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.
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January 07, 2009
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Psychic Predictions 2008
News Items: True Love, Jett Travolta, Christine Maggiorie, Detox Fail, Weblog Awards 2008
Randi Speaks
Science or Fiction
Who's That Noisy
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Segment: Psychic Predictions 2008
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Predictions 2008
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The Rogues review psychic predictions for 2008, plus make some of their own predictions for 2009.
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Segment: News Items
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Segment: Randi Speaks
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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 discover the first vertebrate species whose eyes use a mirror to focus light on the retina.
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Item #2  Fiction
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Scientists discover that the male field cricket copulates using specialized components of its mouth parts.
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Item #3 Science
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A new analysis reveals that pterosaurs launched themselves into the air from four legs, not two, as was previously assumed.
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Segment: Who's That Noisy
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Who's That Noisy
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NEW SEGMENT for 2009
Each week Evan will play a science-related sound and the source of the sound will be revealed the following week.
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Segment: Quote of the Week
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Quote of the Week
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"You see, I can live with doubt, and uncertainty, and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing, than to have answers that might be wrong. I have approximate answers, and possible beliefs, and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure about anything, and many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask, "why are we here?"... But I don't have to have an answer; I don't feel frightened by not knowing things." - Richard Feynman
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