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The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe - Podcast 222 - 10/21/2009
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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.
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Podcast
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October 21, 2009
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Interview with James Randi
News Items: LHC Future Attack, Magnetic and Copper Bracelets
Balloon Boy
Lunar Plume Update
Giant Spider
Special Report: Rebecca from Bangkok
Science or Fiction
Who's That Noisy
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Segment: News Items
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Segment: Special Report
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Rebecca from Bangkok
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Rebecca gives us an update on her tour of Asia.
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Segment: Interview
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Interview with James Randi
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James Randi is the founder and chairman of the board of the James Randi Educational Foundation:
http://www.randi.org. He is the author of numerous books, including Flim-Flam and the Mask of Nostradamus, and a world famous and respected skeptic.
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Segment: Science or Fiction [ Click Here to Show the Answers ]
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Item # 1  Fiction
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New research finds that diabetes is a major risk factor for developing schizophrenia, which may result from the effects of insulin on the brain.
http://www.physorg.com/news175269483.html
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Item # 2  Science
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Researchers found the testosterone levels of men who voted for John McCain or Robert Barr in the 2009 presidential election dropped significantly after hearing the results of the election.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091020181257.htm
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Item # 3 Science
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Geologists have identified an alternate candidate crater for the K-T extinction event off the coast of India, and if confirmed would have resulted from a meteor four times as large as the one that caused the Yucatan crater.
http://www.geosociety.org/news/pr/09-54.htm
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Segment: Who's That Noisy
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Whos That Noisy
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Answer to last week: Emperor Penguin
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Segment: Quote of the Week
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Quote of the Week
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"Doubt, skepticism, innovation, and inquiry are the only means by which wonder, beauty, awe, and symmetry will be discovered."
-Christopher Hitchens
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