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The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe - Podcast 182 - 1/15/2009
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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.
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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January 15, 2009
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Interview with Michio Kaku
News Items: Methane on Mars, Solar Storms, Mega MRI
Your Questions and E-mails: Young Skeptics
Science or Fiction
Who's That Noisy
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Segment: News Items
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Segment: Questions and E-mails
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Question #1 Young Skeptics
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Dear SGU,
Hello I am Rob Manges. I am a young skeptic in ninth grade. I am new to skepticism and would really appreciate general advice or knowledge you could impart on me. My Dad is a practicing physician (MD not DO if your familiar with that little argument) so i am familiar with the scientific method and all that Jazz. As a younger person i find it really hard to be taken seriously by older people when I try to identify myself as a skeptic. Do you have any advice for all the young skeptics of the world?
Sincerely,
Robert Manges
USA
P.S. I love the show, it really has made me a true skeptic!
(i doubt this will even be considered but you have my permission to read this on the show)
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Segment: Interview
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Interview with Michio Kaku
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Michio Kaku is a theoretical physicist, author of may popular books, including his latest book, The Physics of the Impossible, which will be the basis of a new Science Channel series.
http://mkaku.org/
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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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A new survey links caffeine use to hallucinations.
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Item #2 Science
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Physicists have discovered a way to measure properties of quantum systems, such as the location of photons, without interfering with them.
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Item #3  Fiction
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NASA plans to deliver a silk-worm farm to the international space station next month to begin an experiment using silk worms as a sustainable food for long space missions.
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Segment: Who's That Noisy
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Segment: Quote of the Week
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Quote of the Week
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"No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere." - Sigmund Freud
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