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The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe - Podcast 190 - 3/12/2009
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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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Podcast
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March 12, 2009
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Interview with Kenneth Miller
News Items: Stem Cell Ban Lifted, When Chimps Attack, Mellow Yellow, Prince Charles Snake Oil
Science or Fiction
Who's That Noisy
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Segment: News Items
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Segment: Interview
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Interview with Kenneth Miller
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http://www.millerandlevine.com/km/index.html
Professor of Biology
Royce Family Professor for Teaching Excellence
Brown University
Author of several books: Prentice Hall Biology, Finding Darwin’s God, and Only a Theory
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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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MIT researchers have created a new process for manufacturing lithium ion batteries that allow them to be charged and discharged much faster – a large battery can be fully charged in minutes rather than hours.
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2006/battery-hybrid.html
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Item # 2 Science
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Physicists have created a new type of battery that uses magnetic spin rather than chemical bonds to store energy.
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Item # 3  Fiction
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Texas company, Eestor, has produced and will market this year an ultracapacitor-based energy storage system that has 10 times the energy density as current lithium-ion batteries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EEStor
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Segment: Who's That Noisy
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Answer from last week
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Peter Popoff
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Segment: Quote of the Week
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Quote of the Week
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Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god but a great rock and the sun a hot rock.
Anaxagoras, ca. 475 BC
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