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The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe - Podcast 183 - 1/21/2009
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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 21, 2009
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Interview with Alice Tuff
News Items: The Holographic Universe, Science Education in Texas and Louisiana
Your Questions and E-mails: Pheromones, Dyslexia
Randi Speaks: Not in a Name
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 Pheromones
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Pheromones
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Question #2 Dyslexia
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Hi everyone,
A jolly good morning to the skepchaps and skepchick from chilly England.
Every now and again there's a story about dyslexia like this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/7828121.stm
There are a few people who argue that it's a non-existent condition and that it's just about how well children are taught in their early years. Does this occur in the US too? What's the SGU skinny on this?
Chris Gerrard
Cambridge UK
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Segment: Interview
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Interview with Alice Tuff
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Our recent and current priorities include alternative medicine, MRI, detox, radiation, health tests, the status of evidence in public health advice, an educational resource on peer review and the public language of science.
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Segment: Randi Speaks
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Randi Speaks
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Not in a Name
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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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Coffee beans are not beans, they are seeds.
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Item #2 Science
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Although sometimes used as a common name, there is no such thing as a panther in scientific classification.
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Item #3  Fiction
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Bubbles form in champagne by carbon dioxide condensing on imperfections in the glass.
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Item #4 Science
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Flamingos in the wild get their pink color mainly from eating blue-green algae.
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Segment: Who's That Noisy
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Who's That Noisy
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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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"I'm very scared to do it. What if I don't come back? With the whole light-years thing, what if I come back 10,000 years later, and everyone I know is dead? I'll be like, 'Great. Now I have to start all over." - Paris Hilton
"The scientific tradition is distinguished from the pre-scientific tradition in having two layers. Like the latter, it passes on its theories; but it also passes on a critical attitude towards them. The theories are passed on, not as dogmas, but rather with the challenge to discuss them and improve upon them." - Karl Popper
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