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The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe - Podcast 197 - 4/30/2009
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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 197 - April 30, 2009

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Interview with Mark Crislip
News Items: Hidden Photons, Walking Seal, NASA and the Moon, Baby Chupacabras
Your Questions and E-mails: Hoagland on Iapetus
Science or Fiction
Who's That Noisy



Segment:   News Items     
Hidden Photons     http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227054.800-hidden-photons-to-send-secret-emails-through-earth.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news
Walking Seal     http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/?p=524
NASA and the Moon     http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2009/04/nasa-likely-to-scrap-plans-to-build-moon-base.html
Baby Chupacabras     http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=286384&version=1&template_id=36&parent_id=16

Segment:   Questions and E-mails     
Question # 1 - Hoagland on Iapetus     Hey guys, really liked this weeks show. Your discussion of Saturn's moons prompted me to search for pictures when i stumbled upon this gem; a website claiming Iapetus's ridge MUST be man made. http://www.enterprisemission.com/moon1.htm Thought you might like a good chuckle. -John WIlson Chicago

Segment:   Interview     
Interview with Mark Crislip     http://www.quackcast.com/

Segment:   Science or Fiction     [ Click Here to Show the Answers ]
Item # 1     Scientists have developed the world’s fastest camera, that can capture images less than half a billionth of a second long. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8025211.stm
Item # 2     South Korean scientists claim they have cloned several dogs that glow red in ultraviolet light. http://www.wivb.com/dpp/news/offbeat/offbeat_ap_seoul_scientists_claim_to_clone_glowings_dogs_200904281054_2352325
Item # 3     A new DNA analysis suggests that Native Americans derive from multiple successive immigrations from Asia to the Americas. http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=9101

Segment:   Who's That Noisy     
Whos That Noisy     Answer to last week - an alleged recording of Bigfoot

Segment:   Quote of the Week     
Quote of the Week     Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts. - Bernard Baruch
 
 
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